1$ is insane. I think that's one reason why there are so many bad or mediocre games out there. Those designers have to spit them out - because they need to make a living, right?! Making board games full time must be fun on one hand, but on the other it's just another industry were the publishers make the money. Same with novels, comics...you name it. I am a designer, self-employed, and I'm telling you, it took me a lot of experience, time and guts to establish fair fees which work for both - me & the client. It's a tough branch.

I am one more.

in NL some retailer of cosmetics sells monopoly the chocolate game, and scrabble, and rummikub etc. all edible.

Lol

I played Artifact for the short time it was relevant, and I'd say it's a good CCG. But Valve didn't know their market well enough, they thought people would be okay with a monetization structure closer to physical CCGs, which they weren't, and so the game failed to gather that critical mass of players you need to be successful as a CCG.

It's basically the same as a regular tabletop design, or videogame, or whatever game design... :P

Yeah , but if you look at AR game prototypes now, many of them look gimmicky. The harder part is making a good design around the physical and AR properties as a whole.

You could do contextual stuff based on players. Like Player 1 sees different stuff than Player 4

I had an idea that leads to AR pretty well, the idea of stealth mechanics that are hidden from the board but exist in virtual. For example, similar to the ninja/spy from civ 4 or shogun 2, where players can see them in certain conditions and can look the board over with their phone/tablet etc.

perfect so you're telling me I'm gonna be successful 🤣

But what of Stegmaier?

@@Feyangel23 🤣

I wonder if wearing shoes is a predictor of game design destiny.

actually its the other way around. Production time for bg is so much faster, and there is so much bg goodness that you can NOT put into video game.

Board games are like videogames with lower processing power to compute. So efficiency of mechanisms matter. In a videogame you can track 100 NPCs. In a board game it is horrible bookkeeping.

thats legacy!

can you expand and explain. you have my attention. respect, and thanks! -- Matt

Cheesecake is basically the same as fan service, for example scantily clad attractive people of a sex your customers might be attracted to. One sided here means that it's specifically scantily clad ladies, for the enjoyment of male customers without a corresponding piece of red meat thrown to the female players (or, hypothetically, vice versa).

@@jonaskoelker ohhhh thanks

It is a lot of work, lots of money risked, a whole lot of luck and no critical errors.

Indeed!

iAgreeWithTheseTermsAndConditions.

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The autism has to creep in and preach wherever they go.

your comment explains why we need SJW bullshit. Pretty much you just said 'I don't care, as long as I get to do what I want to do'

I agree, its racists to want to include specifically non whites to the party. Why anti white racism? Also, Why the anti male narrative? The end was non inclusive to whites or males. Thats racists and misandrist. It Litteraly should not matter who makes the games. Lets keep race and sex out of it.

@@evanmorgan9788 your comment Is stupid.

I believe you're misunderstanding them. I'm a designer. I'm early in my career, with only a handful of games published. But when I started getting into design, in 2013, I walked up to Rob and Eric, and Geoff, and Stephen Buonocore, and Mike Fitzgerald and Jaimey Stegmaier, and Bruno Cathallah and Ignacy Trewiczyk, and many others, and I asked them all my questions. The point isn't that women are getting some shortcut. The point is that these male designers are inviting women to do the exact same damn thing that men have been doing for years: come network, come learn, ask, get engaged. Why are they doing this? Because it's not obvious. Because for decades, men didn't help women who approached them seeking professional mentorship. Men didn't assume that women we approaching them as junior colleagues, but that they were fans, or were coming on to them. If you were an aspiring female board game designer, you'd be in a position to have valid feelings and opinions on how Eric's words are heard by people like you. But your'e not, and you don't, so it's best not to speculate. After all, you can turn to women designers and ask them how they feel about what Eric said, and learn how they feel.

"meet me in my trailor after the show."

if buyers want women designers then cue the carpets.

i *almost* agree with you. women might not be comfortable approaching men in a conference like that. but not for the reasons you listed. that theory is ridiculously generalized.

@@isaacshalev5376 Can you actually prove what you're supposing or are you just an NPC? Why would a woman need a man's help in making a board game? Do you believe men are better than woman and they can't do it? Stop being creepy.