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Make Your Own Board Game

Designing, Building, and Playing an Original Tabletop Game
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Make Your Own Board Game by Jesse Terrance Daniels is a creative guide that blends the excitement of game design with culinary inspiration. It offers step-by-step instructions and playful ideas to invent your own board games, drawing inspiration from cooking themes and food elements. With engaging activities and imaginative prompts, this book is perfect for sparking creativity and fun for both solo creators and family projects.
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This colorfully illustrated how-to handbook takes tabletop game enthusiasts behind the scenes, teaching the fundamentals of game design, rules, and construction for creating a unique, playable game.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Tabletop board games are experiencing a resurgence, particularly among a younger, tech-savvy audience who enjoy the challenge and opportunity to work in an analogue sphere. Game design expert Jesse Terrance Daniels teaches all the fundamentals of game design, from rule-setting to physical construction, along with original illustrations that capture the ethos and energy of the young, contemporary gaming community.

Readers will learn the building blocks of game design, including game components, rules, and gameplay mechanics. They will also learn how to craft a game, with a variety of examples and design prompts.

After completing Make Your Own Board Game, readers are equipped with a broad understanding of game construction and flow, ready to create games that are playable and satisfying, while also expressing the maker's unique creativity and passions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635863413

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs and illustrations througho

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 202.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 480g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Jesse Terrance Daniels,creator of the award-winning Hibernation game, is the founder of Pied Raven Games. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he holds a bachelor s degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in Animation. He s worked in the marketing industry, held gallery shows, and published his art in magazines and journals. Jesse, his wife, and his pup live in Massachusetts.

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