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.

Face your terror as it builds - tile by tile.

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.