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I actually _want_ a Ford Cortina.

Such great advice Adam and professionally presented to boot. Thanks for sharing resources available in the UK. Looking forward to creating some momentum with my game concept

From my enduser experience there are a lot more games. But very few of them look even a little interesting.

I feel like the main difference today is the existance of video games, which are better at the whole fair complexity thing. While in boardgames the social element is the main draw. Unfair but simple design may be better.😊

I am a fan of both types of your videos Adam the heavily thought out productions are wonderful. Though since you are very well spoken and have an ordered approach to how you do this more informal ones they are still an excellent view. I am still working my way through your journal and enjoying it immensely. As a hobbyist designer I appreciate your openness with the realities of production and finding publishers. Hope that one day you find your way back to Blood Bowl with its revitalized ruleset, still my favourite boardgames of all time, to have a match online one day. Cheers from Canada

Your channel is the best! I saw almost all of your videos. I designed some games and prepare to put some money in. My favorite party games are actualy dice games King of Tokyo with Cybertooth and Anubis expansion and Zombie dice Horde edition.

Congratulations on one million well deserved views.

Congratulations on channel and your designs. I have enjoyed both the videos and the few gams I have tried.

I am not american,so i dont know much of english. Why do you call the word dice, die? Never heard of that form, so "die" is like the singular form of dice, and dice is the plural of die? Because i think i already heard the word "dices" but i cant be sure...

Would you comsider doing a top 10 mechanics video on Cooperative games? I'd love to see a compilation of different unique ways that games implement cooperative play

was just revisiting your older videos as I often do when I need some advice. thank you for posting these, they’re always insightful and helpful! Looking forward to watching this this evening!

Hi Adam, fellow designer here (Search for Planet X, Between Two cities). Congratulations on your success, both with the channel and also with getting games published. And thanks for this video! You are right on about everything mentioned here. I would also add that there has been an explosion of conventions over the last 10 years. So many more small to medium sized local conventions (in the USA it seems like every city of more than 100K people has it's own small local annual con). So just more opportunities to meet people locally, find new playtesters, and connect with the local game design community (at least in the United States).

15:59 the game is called frustration what do you expect

13:34 24:11 monopoly was designed to be unfair, that's the point.

I'm going to take a wild guess and assume you didn't like Pokemon Master Trainer. More seriously, I do think setback and turn removal mechanics do have a place. Not as a completely random event, but as a punishment for playing too recklessly or an emergency brake usable by an opponent. We've all been in those games where someone is running away with it, you have zero agency to respond but they just can't win in a short period of time.

Hi Adam, thanks so much for this video. It's interesting to hear that 500 copies sold is on the very low side of things, is that just if you're working with a publisher, as 500 units sold on KS seems to be quite good going?

Hey Adam! I like your approach to games and your channel. Keep up the good work. Any of your games you can recommend for me? I’d love to try some of them

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This was so great to watch! Thanks for sharing a lot of your thoughts.

The board game market has changed significantly, which can be challenging, but I truly admire your journey and have learned so much from your videos. Despite the shifts, I always enjoy your content and value your insights. Keep up the amazing work!

Dude, your videos are great! Your speech aren't from a vacuum and you don't try to sell ilusions. Cheers from Brazil.

Very interesting seeing how the hobby has changed! great video

I am wondering when you design a board game, do you try creating tension on the board for the players? This is what I am looking for when I play board games and I am wondering how a designer create those tension point for the player to compete over. My favorite game is Dune: Imperium and the game is full of it so I am curious how this aspect is looked at when creating a new game.

Born to crawl cannot fly Adam, am I wrong? It looks like no one accepted the challenge... Sales of the Flamecraft 2022 game for the middle of 2024 amounted to more than 400 thousand copies

Great video, Adam. Thanks for sharing.

I hoped this will be one of those mechanical, specific design details realted videos that i would strongly disagree with painting out games used to be better back in the day and stuff. But no, its a different one haha

Quite a long introduction, if you look at the timeline :D

Avoid Ouija. No activity where you invoke the demonic should be taken lightly. It's not the "game" that is evil. It is the activity it facilitates.

Thanks for the great video! On the point of trying to figure out what gamers want, I do wish that more publishers made their sales #s publicly available. Stonemaier is one of the only ones I know that does it consistently. Increasingly, I'm realizing that BGG rankings and hotness aren't a good indicator of a game's reach, especially for lighter games.

What I like most about Adam is his pleasant and inviting way of talking. Thanks for all the interesting insights into board game development.

Thank you so much for this perspective and all the content you put out into the world.

Thanks for the video Mr. Porter, your lighting is excellent. It’s amazing to see the development of the industry, it feels like it’s still in its infancy and there is a lot of room for growth. I, like many, know a lot of people who don’t play board games. I think designers like you will bring more in, by designing for a wide audience. Once they’re in, they can then discover games made for specific audiences. Be well.

oooh, and congrats on the 1 million views! well deserved!

I've been finding a lot of not-that-much-older board games on BGG, from now well-known and praised board game designers, that totally wouldn't have been published or even picked up by a publisher today. the bar has definitely been raised.

Congrats on the 1 million views milestone!

Thank you so much for sharing your insights with us 😊 Another really great video! Big kudos to you for simply sitting down and recording a well-structured,highly informative 20min+ vid as one big take. Chapeau! Best regards from Berlin❤

Great video. It’s such an interesting problem. Cult of new is so strong. The average game is actually better but it doesn’t seem to have the same staying power. I still think this is an overall good problem.

eo, as always. Thank you

million views?? 😮 congrats!

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So to make a successful boardgame is to simply keep it simple and engaging

How to design a modern board game: don’t try to be modern, just do it

Reference tables are cool, but I am the same guy who finds Excel fun.

I think Tank Battle is overcomplicated for a board game. Might work as a basic video game though

I disagree about the point that randomness in games is inherently a bad thing or a mistake. I will fully agree that it's not a great idea in a Eurogame or a very long game, but there are very fun modern games where the randomness and unfairness is part of the fun - either because they are very clear that it's more about the story or because they are short enough that it doesn't really matter that much. Two examples: I love playing Galaxy Trucker and that thing's second phase always boils down to "Jesus, take the wheel". It's a game you play BECAUSE you want crazy stuff to happen and see who the RNG throws around hardest. Betrayal at House on the Hill is another one that is always good fun. You go in fully aware that the endgame can be hilariously unbalanced, favoring either the traitor or the heroes massively, but that's not really the point of the game.

No, none of what you said at the beginning is true for me, but.. I have an idea 😁

Fantastic guide to racing mechanics, good to see some of my favourites too like BMX & Formula 1 Waddingtons. Could I get your thoughts on my race game “Park Racer” that uses custom black & white action dice that move the car based on the track side matching colour while also activating the die’s rolled action - currently selected gear corresponds to number of dice to be rolled” …

37:41 Last time I bought a physical game was in the 80s

28:54 The logic was simple. Mother, Father, and the two kids. Why do you need more than 4 players?