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24 alternatives to Happy Mitten - 9: Board Games, Business, and the Game Crafter

The business and software of board game prototyping

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 - 9: Board Games, Business, and the Game Crafter launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Happy Mitten - 37: Board Games, Business, and Protospiel Ann Arbor▲51
Interviews and play testing with designers and publishers
2016 · its alternatives →
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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 - 39: Board Games, Business, and GenCon 2014▲52
The motherlode of all board game industry interviews
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 38: Board Games, Business, and Lessons Learned▲52
Magnifying faults to improve efficacy as a game publisher
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 33: Board Games, Business, and Scott Almes▲52
Going from first time designer to published and full time
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 3: Board Games, Business, and Jamey Stegmaier▲55
Picking Jamey's brain about Kickstarting board games
2016 · its alternatives →
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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 - 27: Board Games, Business, and Michael Coe of Gamelyn Games▲51
Reflections on an epic Kickstarter campaign for a tiny game
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 - 54: Board Games, Business, and Matt Worden▲3
Reflecting on the development of a finished board game
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 49: Board Games, Business, and Darrell Louder▲3
Improving game design by play testing at Unpub
2016 · its alternatives →
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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
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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Eigengrau's Generator – A procedural city generator for tabletop gaming▲153
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 8: Board Games, Business, and Cardboard Edison▲2
On amassing tips and resources for board game inventors
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 16: Board Games, Business, and Matt Worden▲53
Happy Mitten talks with their first signed game designer
2016 · its alternatives →
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Gamification.org - Open Source Game Mechanics▲76
2010 · gamification.org · 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
2016 · its alternatives →
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Playing Lean▲104
A board game that teaches the Lean Startup Methodology
2015 · its alternatives →
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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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Deck of Cards – A playing card API▲255
2015 · deckofcardsapi.com · its alternatives →
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Games People Play▲65
The basic handbook of transactional analysis
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 46: Board Games, Business, and Jacqui Davis▲1
The life of an artist in the board game business
2016 · its alternatives →
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Happy Mitten - 36: Board Games, Business, and Colby Dauch of Plaid Hat Games▲51
Creating terrific games with rich themes
2016 · its alternatives →

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