KOBOLD Guide to Game Design, Vol. 2 (PDF)

Description

Get serious about your game design, with advice from professionals on all the major facets of design. This volume contains more than a dozen crucial essays to help you succeed in freelancing, playtest, and publication, including:

1. The Art of the Pitch
2. Challenging Players
3. Freelance Discipline, AKA Talent Won’t Save You
4. How to Run a Playtest with Real Results
5. Design From the Bottom Up
6. What Playtest Teaches You
7. Mystery Adventures
8. Creating Play Depth
9. How NOT to Design a Magic Item
10. Fortunate Accidents
11. How to Make Your Design Matter
12. How to Sell Designs and Influence Editors

This 96-page collection of essays—many previously presented only to patrons of OPEN DESIGN—is now available to the public for the first time. Improve your design — and your odds of publication — today!