Appendix - Design Diagnostic Checklist
In this post, you will find a diagnostic checklist which you can print and use to evaluate your own games, using the system described in this blog. Happy designing!
Guidelines for Strategy Game Design
Guidelines for Strategy Game Design is a book written by D. Brad Talton Jr, designer of BattleCON, Millennium Blades, Pixel Tactics, Dead by Daylight™: The Board Game, Exceed, and many more.
Each week, a new article is posted containing additional game design advice. Once this blog is complete, a physical edition will be available.
Introduction - On guidelines, and the use of these tools
This is intended to be a manual you can use, on-the-go, as a tool to aid in your design. It attempts to be focused—we won’t go into press techniques, guidelines for working with contractors, tools for prototyping, or anything like that. There are a lot of great resources for these things, but we’re only talking about design.