I always enjoy catching up with your latest game design thoughts and videos…great stuff! Congratulations 🎉

can I send to you my board game its more than what chess player can do

Thank you for a great year of videos!

This is cool! I think I'm mainly Engineer, Innovator, and Achiever. But I'm also interested in exploring Artist, Storyteller, and Entertainer.

I like the font choices for Archeology & Aladdin is Dragons; they suit the theme. Problem is, over the past ~30 years, it's become too easy to create printed art on computers. The average person chooses "creative" fonts for the wrong purposes, so we've been trained to associate those fonts with non-professional art. Also, Old != bad.

Fellow Game Designer here, new to the channel - Congrats!

Have you ever been inspired to make a dentistry themed game? That could be fun and educational! 😊

The problem is designers/publishers assume everyone is intelligent. What they need to do is just assume everyone is stupid

Excellent video, thank you, very useful for my project to develop games for my classes and take them to the printer effectively, economically and quickly.

Congrats on your baby Adam!

"Design the game you want to play" is Bruno Cathala's moto :) His idea is than when you design a game you want to publish, represent and sell, you need to really enjoy it because you'll play it hundredth of times and any job has to be/stay a pleasure ! That's why he's pushing all publishers he works with to have the game on BGA to be able to play them against as many different players as possible. ie: many during the design, dozens of play during the development (or vice versa), some for pitching (before or after dev), dozens during the promotion... That's why I tend to distribute games I like to!

Snack Rabbits looks great: I love the streamlining of Dice Heist!

Farkle is a good game

Congratulations, what amazing news!

I hate Risk with a ppassion.

Thank you so much for the prediction, super appreciated :)

Congrats!

Whats the banana looking bag on your shelf on the far left?

Do you include games that use a standard 52 card deck in the board game/card game space?

I think 3D printing customize pieces is an awesome alternative

I'm definatly NOT an engeneer, as I Care about theme above all else. But I identify with both tuner and fixer... Also not a inovator. I prefer working over stabilshed sistems that work well and I can interate upon. I'm a natural for sure, but I wouldn't consider that a "type". I think most, if not all designers are like that. People that aren't like that, don't become game designers in the first place... Besides a game designer, I'm also a teacher, and I love teaching stuff. But I that's not a concern or a goal when I'm developing a game, just something that happens. Specially as teaching some facts is something that naturally occurs when you're creating a theme driven game hehe I care a LOT about the looks of my games, but it's not a goal. I create the game first, and make it look great later. So in the end I would describe myself as a fantasist storyteller tuner fixer. I love balancing my game in a way that the mechanics reflect the narrative, and I do so by using other similar games as a base. % wise, I would be 70% storyteller, 25% engeneer, 5% artist.

Congratulations on the baby, Adam!

I'm a regular viewer of your channel, so I was very happy to have a game on your list 😊 (Magic Maze Tower)

for some reason the only thing i'm hoping for in particular is a reprint of broom service. i can't imagine there's much interest though lol

Congrats on the baby! Hope everyone's healthy.

I am also a fan of the "thematic sequel"! That is why I keep picking up games from Thunderworks. Roll Player, Cartographers, Dawn of Ulos, Stonespine Architects, etc are all wildly different mechanically but set in the same world. Love it!

I really wanted old Witness cuz i liked the Tin Tin style art. The new one does not interest me too 😒

As a Frenchie, I'm surprised to hear about Hachette becoming a major player (pun intended) in the UK only now when they took the French hobby market by storm since their launch a few years ago. I'd be more than surprised if your prediction isn't valid, especially with some of their studios releasing tons of bestsellers (especially Catch Up Games, of Faraway fame, with their latest games Courtisans and Castle Combo.)

I know it likely doesn't fully count, but Carcassonne the Castle has been re-released in Polish, with new art (and without "Carcassonne" license) as "Zamek" (Castle) in 2019. They also later released previously unpublished Falcon expansion.

Great stuff. Thank you for update. Good luck!

Congratulations Adam 🎉

Solid video and congrats on the baby boy!

What's the game at 9:57 called? That isn't Carcassonne the Castle, right?

Wonderful reviews!

I think event decks can be great when used right. Like in Game of Thrones

The last time I played Magic Maze, a person kept tapping the indicator pawn in front of me, not letting me check the board before tapping like mad. I got so frustrated that at the end of the round I tried to show that player what it felt like, but I went too far and in my anger accidentally broke the pawn. That shocked me. I was terrified at the strength and intensity of my own anger, and I realised that I didn’t want to play games that made me feel that way. Back to heavy Euro games! I don’t care if I lose those, and I’d so much rather play games that make me feel good rather than frustrated!

The only best games of the year video without arcs.

I LOVE Dice Heist. Now I must have Snack Rabbits!

Thanks for this! I tried dragging the pixel template over but it says not compatible with canva/corrupt file. Any ideas on how to fix this?

The irony of good design is that when it's done well, it looks obvious -- that anyone can make it pleasing to use and easy to understand. In fact, it's not easy. It takes a lot of work and requires a lot of iteration.

Adam, thank you so much for these videos! I like all of them, but I have come back to this series in particular several times. Just so much useful wisdom!

Interesting!

I love that you focus on light-medium games based on your preferences. I find those are the games that are the most fun for the majority of people, and so it means I get to play games more often and share the love of board gaming with more people.

I have more than one hook in the game that I designed. There is one particular aspect of this game which is particularly fun but I'm hesitant to refer to it as a hook. It's where you block other players. But blocking doesn't occur in every game. And in some games, there might be an attempt to block but it doesn't succeed so once again, there is no blocking taking place. Obviously, there are different types of hooks but regardless, would you say that a hook has to be an ever present feature of every game? In that case, it's probably better to not refer to the blocking as a hook (even though it's one of the most fun things you can do in the game.)

whenever I watch these videos there's something added to my wishlist. anyway, my point is... my wallet hates you, my wife hates you and possibly even my cats. great video as always, Adam.

Great short list for gifts for nephew and niece hordes and I too like shorter lighter games like Dominant Species Marine. Thanks Adam in Wales! From Alan and Sara in Australia

Great video, like always you bring at my attention game unknown to me before. Can you suggest me a new game you found this year that shine at 2 players

Great choices.

Great content as always. Thank you Adam🎉

you know - i was just thinking EVERYTHING you just said! SERIOUSLY! So i started clicking around for THESE types of games and found you by chance (or was it?!). Great vid - don't change! thumbs up! You just can't bring Call of cthulu or twilight imperium to the family table. it's never going to work.