Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Board game designer Adam Porter starts an epic journey through 10 years of lessons he's learned about design and the board game industry.

0:00 Introduction
0:35 Keep your day job
3:37 It is not easier to design a simple game
4:45 There are too many of us
5:46 Downtime kills a game
7:10 Write in second person
8:00 Nobody is going to steal your unpublished idea
10:57 Submission forms suck
12:32 The first play is everything
13:36 Lift other designers up
15:28 Never debate a rejection