I have a notebook full of half-baked game ideas and zero design experience. My strongest idea is a card-drafting game where you build a space station module by module.
Where did you start? Books, podcasts, resources?
Index cards and a sharpie. The less polished your prototype, the easier it is to iterate. Play it, it will be terrible, fix one thing, repeat.
Read Kobold's Guide to Board Game Design. Best $15 you'll spend.
Biggest mistake: trying to put every cool idea into one game. Your first game should do ONE thing well.
Start with the experience you want players to FEEL, not the mechanisms.
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