Kobold Guide to Game Design: How to Playtest and Publish

by Wolfgang Baur, Nicolas Logue

Game Design Secrets You Need to Know!Get serious about your game design, with advice from professionals on all the major facets of design. This volume contains more than a dozen crucial essays to help you succeed in freelancing, playtest, and publication, Art of the PitchChallenging PlayersFreelance Discipline, AKA Talent Won't Save YouHow to Run a Playtest with Real ResultsDesign From the Bottom UpWhat Playtest Teaches YouMystery AdventuresCreating Play DepthHow NOT to Design a Magic ItemFortunate AccidentsHow to Make Your Design MatterHow to Sell Designs and Influence EditorsThis 96-page collection of essays—many previously presented only to patrons of OPEN DESIGN—is now available to the public for the first time. Improve your design -- and your odds of publication -- today!

Genres: Game Design, Role Playing Games

65 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 4, 2010