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24 alternatives to Happy Mitten - 38: Board Games, Business, and Lessons Learned

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Happy Mitten - 38: Board Games, Business, and Lessons Learned launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Happy Mitten - 4: Board Games, Business, and Grant Rodiek▲52
Game designer's experience on getting a game published
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 37: Board Games, Business, and Protospiel Ann Arbor▲51
Interviews and play testing with designers and publishers
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Happy Mitten - 39: Board Games, Business, and GenCon 2014▲52
The motherlode of all board game industry interviews
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Happy Mitten - 3: Board Games, Business, and Jamey Stegmaier▲55
Picking Jamey's brain about Kickstarting board games
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Happy Mitten - 40: Board Games, Business, and Matt & Stephanie from Shark and Shark Games▲54
Comparing video game development and PR to board games
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Happy Mitten - 49: Board Games, Business, and Darrell Louder▲3
Improving game design by play testing at Unpub
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Happy Mitten - 27: Board Games, Business, and Michael Coe of Gamelyn Games▲51
Reflections on an epic Kickstarter campaign for a tiny game
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Happy Mitten - 33: Board Games, Business, and Scott Almes▲52
Going from first time designer to published and full time
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Happy Mitten - 30: Board Games, Business, and Aldo of Impressions Game Distribution Services ▲52
Advice about game distribution for designers and publishers
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Happy Mitten - 10: Board Games, Business, and Bryan Fischer▲3
Advertising and marketing tips for board game publishers
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 24: Board Games, Business, and Panda Game Manufacturing▲1
A rare look at the manufacturer's side of board gaming
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 54: Board Games, Business, and Matt Worden▲3
Reflecting on the development of a finished board game
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Happy Mitten - 28: Board Games, Business, and Protospiel Milwaukee▲53
Interviewing makers at the Milwaukee game design convention
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 35: Board Games, Business, and Andrew Federspiel▲51
Pulling off a career change into the board game industry
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 9: Board Games, Business, and the Game Crafter▲1
The business and software of board game prototyping
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Happy Mitten - 29: Board Games, Business, and Tox from Crits Happen▲51
Tox gives a reviewer's take on making an exceptional game
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 21: Board Games, Business, and Dan Hsu▲53
What can the board game industry can learn from video games?
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 33½: Board Games, Business, and Origins 2014▲51
Interviews and highlights from the Origins Game Fair 2014
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Games People Play▲65
The basic handbook of transactional analysis
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Gamification.org - Open Source Game Mechanics▲76
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Happy Mitten - 22: Board Games, Business, and West Michigan Tabletop Gamers▲65
Tips for growing and nourishing a local game community
2016 · its alternatives →
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Game Writing▲73
Narrative Skills for Videogames
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Planet Money - Can a Game Show Lose?▲79
The economics of game shows
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 34: Board Games, Business, and Jerry Hawthorne▲52
The endearing story of how Mice and Mystics came to be
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