Comments on Game Designer Wannabe: The Blind Leading the Designer

Thanks, Dave.

2010-06-07T18:32:38.061-04:00

Thanks, Dave.

My best response has been from Lars Rose (salish99...

2010-06-07T17:04:15.702-04:00

My best response has been from Lars Rose (salish99 at BGG). He came back with very useful feedback.

Dave, I am a little worried about non-responses. ...

2010-06-07T09:51:36.085-04:00

Dave, I am a little worried about non-responses.

I considered print & play, but I'm already asking someone to do me a favor; also asking them to construct the game might take it too far.

You say you've succeeded with this a couple of times. Would you mind asking them if they would want to have a go at my prototype?

I've done this with a few folks - very good fo...

2010-06-07T08:30:08.908-04:00

I've done this with a few folks - very good for spotting rules problems when it works, but difficult to set up, and people are flaky - I've gotten a great response from a couple of folks, but I've sent out three prototypes to strangers and heard nothing or nearly nothing. That gets expensive and disheartening.

Print and play would be better, but then you're asking the people to do some work assembling the components.