Mike Selinker

Boardgame design is a long and windy process which definitely needs some guidelines like this book provides. But what I personally am into learning more about is mechanism design and there I was a bit let down content wise.

Some things were good in that respect though. I liked most the chapter "stealing the fun" by Dave Howell since it actually provided useful insight to guide mechanism design.

Some interesting bits on applying game theory to politics. But while I'm sympathetic to the politics, and do think game theory has important things to say, I think much of the analysis in the book is contrived and overblown.

Face your terror as it builds - tile by tile.