The Snakes & Ladders Of Creative Thinking: Have More Ideas For Board Games, Improve Them & Get Them Ready To Pitch - Softcover

Johnson, Deej; Langsworthy, Billy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916214304 ISBN 13: 9781916214309

Publisher: Invent Board Games, 2019

Synopsis

Inventors Guide | Have Ideas for Board Games | Improve Ideas | Learn How to Pitch | Insider Insights & Dozens of Tips

INVENT BOARD GAMES: Have more ideas, improve them & get them ready to pitch. Really PRACTICAL ADVICE

BE MORE CREATIVE: Dozens of easy-to-learn strategies that generate ideas. Know what the pros know!

LEARN FROM EXPERTS including Rob Daviau, Matt Edmondson, Bruno Cathala, Richard Heayes and many more

GUARANTEED: If you use the book and DON’T get any ideas, the authors will give one-to-one advice

EASY-TO-USE advice on retail & publisher needs, being creative, crowdfunding & much, much more

Looking for a game inventors guidebook? A game designers book that guarantees you’ll have more ideas for games? If so, The Snakes and Ladders of Creative Thinking is for you.

A creativity handbook / instruction manual like no other! Rather than covering game mechanics & components, this guide does more... It gives step-by-step advice on how to invent board games by being habitually creative so you can have ideas for all kinds of game: role playing, puzzle, card, board, adult, tabletop, silly-social & junior games for kids!

Instead of talking about each category, this manual looks at proven ways to be more creative. Packed with simple, universal techniques, it answers common questions that every game inventor faces, & gives comprehensive advice from a who’s who of people that design board games. But that’s not all! After you start to have more ideas for games, this creativity book guides new inventors through the business of pitching boardgames to publishers: it’s easier than ever!

This how-to manual is one of the only information / reference books to focus on board games while teaching you how to have ideas. In 6 parts, it not only speaks to board game designers, but also identifies & explains their creative techniques. The book lets you:

• Make creativity easier
• Know the REAL reasons games fail
• Generate 1000 ideas in MINUTES
• Learn one phrase you must ALWAYS use
• Find out why one idea is NEVER enough
• Discover dozens of ways to get more ideas
• Get insider tips on playtesting & pitching
• Write better rules – and MUCH more!

The interviews include retail buyer Lucy Benham from John Lewis, and Hasbro’s inventor-relation titan Rich Mazel. Also features the inventors of popular games including Exploding Kittens, Pandemic Legacy, Obama Llama, Kingdomino, Happy Salmon, Monopoly: Electronic Banking, Accentuate, Hail Hydra, Don’t Step In It, Junk Art, Chow Crown, Wingspan, Rubik’s Cage and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Invent Board Games
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916214304
• ISBN 13: 9781916214309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 365