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Links: Lessons for Designers and Publishers, Obscure Hot Games & Do That Haiku That You Do So Well

Links: Lessons for Designers and Publishers, Obscure Hot Games & Do That Haiku That You Do So Well
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Looking to pitch a game to a publisher? Perhaps you should check out Daniel Solis' "5 Pitching Lessons from Tabletop Deathmatch (so far)" in which he elaborates on lessons such as these:

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—Present the game you have on the table right now.
—Public information slows down decisions. Decisions slow down a pitch.
Perhaps this advice seems obvious, but better that you learn the obvious things beforehand instead of afterwards.

• On College Humor, Ryan Creamer and Dennis Flynn suggest that you sympathize with — or perhaps mock? I'm not sure — "7 Childhood Board Game Characters With Horrible Shitty Lives".

Board Game: Exploding Kittens
• On Polygon, Charlie Hall asks "Is Exploding Kittens, the most heavily funded game in Kickstarter history, any good?" And since the gameplay pretty much matches the description presented during the KS campaign, I'm not surprised by the answer.

• Want to find "the hottest new board games"? Then you had best check out this write-up from Ross Hyzer in The New Yorker to get all the details on Great Houses of Europe, How Splendid! and Invite Your Friends: A Board-Game Adventure, which is described below:

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Experience the excitement of playing a board game in this incredibly accurate simulation of what it's like to be a board-game player. First, struggle to establish an elusive Quorum of Players. Then, use your Player token to place your player's Tokens on the board's Board while you roll dice to gain your player Points and spend points to determine your player's Dice Rolls. Features exquisitely detailed fractal miniatures. Winner is the winner who Wins without making the other Players decide never to play board games ever again.
Board Game: Bad Medicine
Board Game: Lost Cities
• In a postmortem of his Bad Medicine Kickstarter campaign, designer/publisher Gil Hova offers a few lessons for those running crowdfunding games, such as "Have most of your art done, but not all of it" and "It's not enough to offer a good game; you must offer a good product" — and this second one is kind of funny because from my POV many Kickstarter campaigns seem to be nothing but product. Perhaps I'm just being cynical though...

• On her Twitter account, Brittanie Boe of GTS Distribution and GameWire launched a #BoardGameHaiku hashtag on April 7, 2015, and many people have taken up the suggestion/invitation, including yours truly:

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Investment mocks me;
Poor color choices in hand,
Lost cities await...
And now this fun activity has turned into a contest of sorts as Rhea Friesen, community manager at Steve Jackson Games, has offered prizes of Hipster Dice to six haiku creators, with Brittanie choosing three and me choosing three. If you want a chance to win, please submit your #BoardGameHaiku in a comment below and feel free to tweet it with the hashtag so that Brittanie will see it, too.

Please recall that haiku consist of 17 syllables in three lines, with a 5-7-5 pattern. Deadline for entry is midnight EDT (GMT -4) on Sunday, April 12, 2015.

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