The Game Makers is live on Kickstarter!
Hello! I'm Ben Rosset, an award winning board game designer in Central Illinois. I've been designing board games since 2009.
I license my own original game designs. I also design and manufacture custom-branded games.
I'm happy to share my love of gaming with the world. Let's play!
Follow your dreams to become the greatest board game manufacturer the world has ever seen! You'll have to hire staff, build an assembly line, invest in additional structures to your factory, gain and fulfill contracts, and market your line of board games to the world.
In The Game Makers, players are board game manufacturers racing to build the greatest collection of classic modern board games. Build over 300 real-world games from over 100 real-world publishers. You can build Wingspan, Brass: Birmingham, On Mars, Terraforming Mars, Android: Netrunner, Ark Nova, Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition, and many more!
I sit down with Gabe Barrett of the Board Game Design Lab to discuss how to model real-world systems in board games, what the difference is between systems modeling, world building, and abstract games, and how to put on a twist on common mechanics to better marry your theme to the mechanics.
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