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Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources - March 2016

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Sneak Peak: Favorite Tips - March 2016

Your patrons-only preview of our monthly roundup of favorite board game design tips!

March 2016 Patreon supported

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The Process: Biblios by Steve Finn

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New Interview Series: The Process

Thanks to your help in reaching the milestone, we're excited to launch a new series of designer interviews!The series is called The Process, and we'll be asking designers to tell us about the process of taking their game from start to finish. Along the way, they'll share advice that will illuminate the path...

Cardboard Edison Award Winner Anounced

Today we announced the winner of the 2016 Cardboard Edison Award: The Blood of an Englishman by Dan Cassar!We were only able to do the award because of your support. Thank you!Read more about the winning game, and all of the very worthy finalists, here:http://cardboardedison.com/award/

Giveaway: Valeria: Card Kingdoms

This month we're pleased to be able to give away another game we have a connection with: Valeria: Card Kingdoms, designed by Isaias Vallejo and published by Daily Magic Games!We're particularly excited to be giving away Valeria because it was one of the first games we blind playtested through our Inventor patro...

Cardboard Edison’s Favorite Tips & Resources - February 2016

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Sneak Peek: Favorite Tips - February 2016

This month’s roundup of useful board game design links, delivered early for our Patreon backers!

Meaningful Decisions: Anthony Amato & Nicole Kline on Design Choices in RESISTOR_

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Sneak Peek: Meaningful Decisions: RESISTOR_

Here's your patrons-only sneak peek at the next in our Meaningful Decisions series of designer interviews. This time, as voted on by you, it's Anthony Amato and Nicole Kline discussing their game RESISTOR_.The double-sided cards in RESISTOR_ restrict information to one player or the other, while giving each pla...

Giveaway: Hocus

This month we're pleased to be giving away a game by a designer and publisher who has contributed a great deal to the board gaming community: Hocus, the first title from Hyperbole Games!You might know Grant Rodiek, the game's co-designer with Joshua Buergel, from his extensive writings about board game design a...

Sneak Peek: Favorite Tips - January 2016

Here's your patrons-only preview of our monthly roundup of favorite board game design links!

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Meaningful Decisions: Matthew O'Malley on Design Choices in Diner

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Sneak Peek: Meaningful Decisions: Matthew O'Malley on Diner

Here’s your patrons-only sneak peek at the next installment of Meaningful Decisions, as chosen by you: Diner by Matthew O’Malley!Diner was created for a design contest. How did this affect your approach and the design choices you made?Pretty much every decision that was made had to do with the contest. If I’m des...

The Publishers: Q&A With Michael Coe of Gamelyn Games

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Sneak Peek: Michael Coe of Gamelyn Games

Here's your patrons-only preview of the next installment of The Publishers!The Tiny Epic series of games has become something of a calling card for Gamelyn Games. How did you settle on this, and what goes into identifying a potential franchise in the gaming industry?I fell in love… with Tiny Epic. Initially with ...

Giveaway: Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge

For this month's giveaway, we have a game so new that you can be one of the first to receive it:Swinging Jivecat Voodoo Lounge,designed by Seth Roback and published by Daily Magic Games, lets you mix a few drinks, schmooze and rack up magical monkey points.And besides, what other game do you know of that comes with...

Cardboard Edison's Favorite Tips & Resources of 2015

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Sneak Peek: Favorite Tips of 2015!

We've gone through our archive to find our favorite board game design links and quotes from the past year. For the patrons that make what we do possible, we have your sneak peek at our big 2015 tips roundup!Whether you've been with us from the beginning, or you're a new supporter, thank you for all of your ...

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The Publishers: Q&A With Shari Spiro of Ad Magic & Breaking Games

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Updated Milestones

Patreon recently changed the way they display campaigns' pledge levels, so we've updated our milestones to bring them into line with the new method.We're incredibly excited by these, and we're closer than ever to reaching them!MORE INTERVIEWS: At $325 a month, we’ll start a new line of designerintervi...

Sneak Peek: Shari Spiro of Ad Magic / Breaking Games

Here's your patrons-only preview of the next installment in our series of publisher interviews, as voted on by you: Shari Spiro of Ad Magic / Breaking Games!Between Ad Magic and Breaking Games, your businesses straddle the line between manufacturing and publishing. Tell us about how you reached that decision and ho...

Giveaway: Bad Medicine

For this month's giveaway, we turned to a designer and publisher who has done a lot to help the board game design community. Gil Hova is letting us give away four copies of his new party game Bad Medicine! Gil is the designer of games including Battle Merchants (read our interview with him here) and The Networks. B...

Submissions Are Open for the 2016 Cardboard Edison Award!

We're incredibly excited to announce that submissions are open for the 2016 Cardboard Edison Award!Your support made this possible, so patrons of Cardboard Edison will receivefree submissionto the award! (Up to two submissions per designer; judges aren't eligible to submit.)Visit theaward page on our website, a...