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The secrets of playtesting that no game developer will ever tell you!

You won’t believe these five brain-dead simple life-hacks to jump-start your board game career! Board game publishers and industry specialists will hate you for this. Players will line up outside your door, begging for expansion sets. Read on to find out more!

Just kidding, there is no simple life-hack that’ll turn your game into an amazing and fun product instantly. Sorry for the click-bait.

The simple truth of making a great game is to playtest over and over and over and over and over and over again.

But what exactly is a “playtest” and how do we go about doing it? That’s what we’re going to be talking about today.

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How a board game is born.

The TL;DR of how a board game comes to life:

  1. Start with a few core mechanics.
  2. Play it nonstop until you have something not-completely-garbage.
  3. Feed it love until you’re ready to show it to the world.
  4. Kill it and start all over again using the feedback you receive.

Read on below if you want more details! Relatedly, if you want to read about why I am making a board game, click here.

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Why am I making a board game?

Hi there. My name is Wonmin (pronounced like one minute) and I wanted to explain how/why I decided to make a board game (for the literally dozens of people out there who are curious).

A bit about my background–

  1. I am a 27 year old based in NYC.
  2. I worked for a tech company out of college for three years.
  3. I quit when I realized that there was nothing stopping my youth from disappearing into the giant machine of corporate America.
  4. I started an internet service with my brother to help people sell domain names.

While it was gratifying to be my own boss and to build a product from the ground up, I knew deep down that it wasn’t what I truly wanted to do.

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I believe introductions are in order.

Welcome to our first ever blog post for our new board game–Welcome to Sysifus Corp. What better way to kick things off than to introduce the team and explain our goals for this blog.

Hello! We are Wonmin and Grace.

Hello! We are Wonmin and Grace.

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