Game Designer Adam Porter explores the mechanisms used in dice driven strategy games. The video is a toolbox for you as a designer: an exploration and distillation of what has gone before how a mechanism has developed lessons learned and new avenues to explore. Take these mechanisms, combine them, subvert them, and create something new.



The Adam in Wales: Board Game Designer Journal is available worldwide, via Amazon's print on demand service.

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The journal provides a multitude of reflective tools to help you develop as a tabletop game designer. This is not a playtesting journal. That is to say, the journal is not focused on one specific game or project. It is focused on you. You are the project.

The journal is broken down into logs, with prompts to guide your reflections.

You will be guided to reflect on:
Your own definition of success
Your gaming preferences and those of the market
Games you have played and what you learned from them
The people who support you in game design
How you support other designers
Your design ethos
Your goals and ambitions

The journal contains a selection of tools to help you analyse your prototypes in development.

The Hook Generator to help you create concepts which will catch attention
The DARE Model to help you prioritise your ideas
The Ladder Model to help you determine how engaging your game is
The Idea : Execution Matrix to help you determine how likely your game is to achieve commercial success
Player Journey Maps to help you identify the pain points in your games

These tools are all based off of models and matrices developed and discussed on the Adam in Wales Youtube Channel. If you would like more information about any of these topics, there is a huge amount of information within that channel.