This tabletop game design guidebook helps designers understand the full journey of making a game:

https://breakmygame.com/guidebook

10 steps to designing a game (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_r7nbVILuM

A chat about progression in board games: what it is and different ways it can show up in games (audio):

https://decisionspace.podbean.com/e/progression-what-we-talk-about/

Generally good advice that you might not want to follow: a frank and detailed conversation about getting into publishing, launching a crowdfunding campaign, marketing a game, and more (audio):

https://genesisoflegend.podbean.com/e/episode-373-thats-great-advice-dont-follow-it/

The Spiel des Jahres: what it is and what it isn’t:

https://blog.recommend.games/posts/thoughts-on-spiel-des-jahres/

Considering a game’s flexibility in allowing things like different player counts and play lengths (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1L23mg_SrQ

Two reasons why board game designers shouldn’t pay for art for their prototype:

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/162554/why-not-pay-for-art-in-a-prototype

Different ways games can sequence and resolve players’ actions (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqHtAOaESI

Catch-up mechanics: Are they necessary? How can they be included in a design? And when do they work well—or not? (audio):

https://cardboardphilosophypod.podbean.com/e/episode-033-catch-up-mechanics/

A six-month plan to getting a board game signed—or at least to giving yourself the best chance at doing so (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owQmvruuJGE

Six tips for pitching your board game to publishers:

https://www.meeplemountain.com/top-six/top-six-tips-for-pitching-your-game-to-publishers/

When writing a rulebook, there are four different audiences to keep in mind:

https://bsky.app/profile/tzartzam.bsky.social/post/3kus24mydpf2r

7 questions to ask yourself when beginning a game design (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qDoUO67T84

Trick-taking games: a deep dive into the genre, how it’s defined, some of the many ways designers can work within it, and more (audio):

https://decisionspace.podbean.com/e/trick-taking-what-we-talk-about-with-pete-wissinger/

Game designer Erik A Sundén describes his process for getting published:

https://x.com/erik_a_sunden/status/1799063698889437196

Dispelling myths about game design to get at some hard truths about it (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ7XertymrQ

Board game designers share their top tips for kids who want to make games (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_M96QGGyY

What makes a board game “puzzly”? (audio)

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-scm32-16257b7

Strategies for getting unstuck with a board game design—a Bluesky game designers discussion:

https://bsky.app/profile/senfoonglim.bsky.social/post/3ktq6agqphe2l

Various ways of adding “color” to your board game’s presentation—card art, flavor text, minis, custom dice, etc.—and the tradeoffs that come with each (video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctrx1-etVcU