Nick Bentley 🎲

My designer diary is BGG's lead piece right now!

Trekking the World: Caught Between a Hobbyist Rock and a Family Hard Place
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It's about a challenge unique to game design that needs more attention, imo.

The response so far is strong. Overjoyed.

There appears to be an exodus of game designers to Blue Sky, and it has ramped up in the last week.

I hadn't jumped since I like the functionality here.

But I've been studying Blue Sky, and been wowed by it, so heading over there for now:

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Improbably, the light gateway game we just published has an 8.0 average rating on Board Game Geek so far.

Surely it won't last, but I'm gonna brag about it while it does.

Tabletop games are still among the most undervalued ways to spend free time and time with others.

Wish I could somehow place a bet about this.

My biggest frustration with the way board game hobbyists respond to games:

Many make quick judgements about how much strategy is in a game before they really know.

Emergent gameplay is definitionally hard to see at first. Many hobbyists are too confident.