Imaginary Sword Studios @imaginarysword
Board Game & Creative Studio in Sweden run by @samuelstenberg. Blog on board games, business and innovation in a sweet combo at https://t.co/GglQkq1k4C. imaginarysword.com Umeå, Sweden Joined May 2018-
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Great post on something I've been thinking about for a while! It is certainly tough for reasons Geoff goes into here, BUT as I commented on the post: Have there really been any great attempts at building characters in board games?
New GameTek! Why is there no character-based board game IP? substack.com/inbox/post/137…
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@erik_a_sunden Ideas/inventions! Along the lines of ”Everything is a remix”, combine 2 things to make 1 then combine that thing with something else.
👆Inspired by and building on an example and Twitter thread from @elizhargrave
The brilliance of the roll-and-write UI. About pens, papers, tapping into familiar patterns and a famous bird-feeder: bit.ly/roll-n-write-UI
Many board game publishers could benefit from re-thinking their branding and strategy, I argue. bit.ly/publisherbrand…
@rccgames I write about the board games industry from a business innovation perspective to inspire designers and publishers to evolve their business
Designers & publishers: Don't chase invention – look for innovation instead. A post on the difference and why it matters: bit.ly/invention-inno… – inspired by a great video from @BoardgameWales
Digital whiteboards are perfect for board game design – here's a video on how I use Miro: bit.ly/miroboardgames .
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Great little post by @BrendanMcCask on how easy it can be to test your idea for a board game and get clues about the business viability of it: crowdfundingcoach.substack.com/p/the-power-of…
To all publishers out there trying to build audiences, I wrote a guest-post for @CrazyBrdGameGuy late last year drawing on my experience in content marketing strategy, detailing how board game publishers can up their content game: boardgamedesigncourse.com/build-an-audie…
New post on how board games solve problems and how the jobs-to-be-done theory of business can challenge our decisions on board games as products: bit.ly/3kUNDbZ
@Bruno_Faidutti @PlayNaylorGames @wisegoldfish So I hope/think there is some audience out there for whom this is not >>breaking through open doors<< (we have the exact same expression in Swedish by the way!) who can be inspired to try different approaches to designing/communicating games
New post out on the virtues of experience-centrism, in design and the overall board game discourse, building on podcast episode from @PlayNaylorGames and @wisegoldfish bit.ly/3O8Pl2X
@Bruno_Faidutti @PlayNaylorGames @wisegoldfish Yes, this is probably commonplace thinking among veteran designers such as yourself. Overall in the industry I'm not so sure... In 2022 in many reviews I still hear the criticism "this is just a bunch of mechanisms" or some variation of it
Going to start posting stuff from the blog here to provide more ways to follow. Older posts can be found on the archive page: imaginarysword9074488.wordpress.com/archive/
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