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Game design is hard. Wouldn't it be great if you could ask the best designers on the planet questions to help you become better at the craft. In Board Game Design Advice, you'll find incredible wisdom from 100+ of the top designers in the industry today.

You'll learn things like:

What Reiner Knizia would tell his younger self.
How Nikki Valens knows when to walk away from a design for a while.
​The game Alan Moon recommends most to fledgling designers.
How Isaac Vega gets into the zone and flow of design.
The new belief that has helped Ignacy Trzewiczek's designs dramatically improve.
​Lessons Jamey Stegmaier learned from his biggest failure.
The best advice Corey Konieczka would give a designer who is just
starting out.
What recent purchase has helped Jon Gilmour's designs the most.
The life philosophy that improves Richard Garfield's game designs.
​What Vlaada Chvatil would tell you after a discouraging playtest.
Donald X. Vaccarino's advice on pitching a game to a publisher.
What Antoine Bauza does when he feels overwhelmed or unfocused.
And a TON more!

For the Love of Board Games is a book that explores how modern, popular board games were created by interviewing the designers behind the games.

Stories in this book come from some of the industry's biggest board game designers: Matt Leacock, Jamey Stegmaier, Bruno Cathala, Richard Garfield, Reiner Knizia, and many others.

Every chapter features a different board game designer and discusses not only the inspiration behind the game(s) they designed but how they started playing board games and got involved in the industry.

Designers will also reveal stories about board games they designed, but never published! Readers will discover the fun facts and challenges behind some of their favorite board games.

For the Love of Board Games is a must-have gift for tabletop gamers of all ages.

In Tales of the Arabian Nights, you are the hero or heroine in a story of adventure and wonder just like those told by Scheherazade to her spellbound sultan! You will travel the land seeking your own destiny and fortune. You will learn stories and gain wisdom to share with others. Will you be the first to fulfill your destiny? The next Tale is yours to tell! There is, of course, a winner in Tales of the Arabian Nights, but the point of the game is less to see who wins and more to enjoy the unfolding and telling of a great story!

In this new edition of the groundbreaking storytelling game, you enter the lands of the Arabian Nights alongside Sindbad, Ali Baba, and the other legendary heroes of the tales. Travel the world encountering imprisoned princesses, powerful 'efreets, evil viziers, and such marvels as the Magnetic Mountain and the fabled Elephant's Graveyard.

Choose your actions carefully and the skills you possess will reward you: become beloved, wealthy, mighty - even become sultan of a great land. Choose foolishly, however, and become a beggar, or be cursed with a beast's form or become insane from terror! YOU will bring to life the stories of the inestimable Book of Tales in this vastly replayable board game with over 2002 tales that will challenge, amuse, astound and spellbind you for years to come.

Re-implements:

Tales of the Arabian Nights

Featuring a selection of the best articles published at boardgamesthattellstories.com - one of the most influential blogs dedicated to modern board games - Boardgames That Tell Stories 2 not only gathers the best from Ignacy Trzewiczek, but also serves as a compilation of great stories about game design and game publishing written by game designers from all over the world, including Mike Selinker, Rob Daviau, Bruno Cathala, Michal Oracz, Vlaada Chvatil, and Antoine Bauza.

Boardgames That Tell Stories is a selection of 35 best articles published in years 2010 - 2012 at boardgamesthattellstories.com - one of the most influential blogs dedicated to modern board games. Thanks to very successful Kickstarter campaign this book no only gathers best from Ignacy Trzewiczek, but also offers much more - it is a compilation of great stories about game design and game publishing written by best game designers from all over the world, including such names like Mike Selinker, Rob Daviau, Bruno Cathala, Michał Oracz, Vlaada Chvatil, Antoine Bauza and many more...