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Board Games to Create and Play

Invent 100s of Games with Friends and Family
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Board Games to Create and Play is a creative and interactive book that invites you to design your own board games. With over 55 unfinished boards to customise, you can colour and play your own versions of classic tabletop games like Snakes and Ladders or Monopoly. The book provides a clear introduction, multiple board designs, tutorials, and 25 rule sets to inspire inventive gameplay. Whether you're new to board games or an experienced player, this book encourages creativity while ensuring every game is fun and playable.
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This book is ideal for board game enthusiasts, creative minds eager to design games, families looking for interactive activities, and anyone interested in developing classic tabletop games with a personal twist.

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Create the next Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Ticket to Ride or Settlers of Catan with this creative board game book!

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

Create the next Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Ticket to Ride or Settlers of Catan with this creative board game book!

With over 55 boards to customise, Board Games to Create and Play is a doodle book where every page is an unfinished tabletop game. Just learn the basic concepts, colour and play!

Board games are back in vogue – with board games cafΓ©s popping up all across the UK, they’re no longer something to play on a rainy day, but a fun and social activity for every day of the year! In this interactive gaming book, Board Games to Create and Play teaches you how, in just half an hour, you and your friends can come up with a new game and start playing immediately. Just decide on a theme for the game, pick a rule set from the book, agree on some variations, doodle onto one of many board game designs and gather your die and counters!

Completely dippable and possible to play in any order, this book is packed with tips, tricks and mechanics on how to design the perfect game. At the front of the book, there is an introduction to how everything works and what you’ll need to play the games. What follows next is a beautiful package of 20 board game designs, each repeated three times for replayability. There are then three tutorials and a cheat sheet to get players started, a cornucopia of suggested games to push you in the right direction, and then 25 different rule sets, each introducing a new concept, to encourage players to think outside the box.

Whatever the experience level of players, the game that you create from this book will always be playable, entertaining and surprising. Each board you create is easy to pull out and can be played again and again. So whether you play video games, mobile games or want to have a go at designing the next classic tabletop, this book is perfect for anyone who wants to flex their creative muscles!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781911624295

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pavilion

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 316.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1540g

Pages: 178

About the Author

Viviane Schwarz is an award-winning author and illustrator of interactive books, picture books, graphic novels and craft books. She is an associate lecturer for video game design at Goldsmiths University, specialising in improvisation. Kevan Davis is a designer of board, street and web games whose work includes the zombie browser game Urban Dead, the family housework tracking website Chore Wars and the street games collection Ludocity. He was a co-writer of the Boardgame Remix Kit, a 2010 book that gave new ways to play old classics.

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