• Color Schemes and Backgrounds
• Drawing Maps
• Color Blindness and Graphic Design
• Vischeck (upload pix of your game to see if it has any issues for the color blind)

• Brown, Damon S.
• ConceptArt.org
• Elance
• Simpson, Gary
• Consider calling the art department at your local university to see which talented students would like a job for the experience.
• If you are an artist who would like to be listed here, leave a message at BGG.

• Tips for Inventors [this site]
• About.com:
  · pricing your game
  · inventor resources
• Board Game Design by Tom Sloper
• Books
• David A. Coutts Going It Alone (The story of the invention and production of 6 Billion.)
• Culture Shock! Succeed in Business: Germany by Richard Lord
• Dice + Food + Lodging (Tim Rodriguez)
• Dragging a new board game to the table (Pravda)
• Exploratory Learning Through Educational Simulation and Games (game invention course taught at San Diego State University)
• Bruno Faidutti - Inventing and publishing a board or card game
• Game Cabinet:
  · Reiner Knizia interview
  · Alan Moon interview
• Game Concepts by Guus Schijns
• Game Design Concepts – notes for a course
• Game Developer Magazine – computer game emphasis
• Games Journal:
  · From A to Z - Jim Dietz of Jolly Roger Games on game invention
  · Hints from Hell, Louise - more sources for bits
  · Self-Publishing Who Stole Ed's Pants?
  · Inventing Head to Head Golf
  · Wolfgang Kramer:
  • Inventing Torres
  • What Is a Game, Really?
  • What Makes a Game Good
  • on the German Games Market
• Tom Jolly's tips on manufacturing/marketing a game
• Larienna's Library
• NSAG (Dutch Games Authors Corporation)
• Die Pöppelkiste Interviews (German):
  · Doris Matthäus
  · Klaus Teuber
  · Wolfgang Kramer (German - including special rules to speed up Tikal, how he groups the various types of games he has done, how much inventors get paid, a sample playtester form, whether he plays others' games (he does) and which ones he wishes he had invented, the difference between "harmonious" and "aggressive" games, the anspruchsvoll games he has been doing in the past few years, etc.)
• Selling Theophrastus to Mayfair
• Trying to Sell Your Design by Richard "Republic of Rome" Berthold
• Why Do People Play Games?

• Ace Card Game Company (complete services, in India)
• Altenburg Spielkartenfabrik (ASS) (card printing, D)
• Arts Cow (personalized decks of 54 cards at very low prices)
• Carta Mundi (printer of cards, ideally in a deck of 112?)
• Carta Mundi USA
• Competitive Edge (custom card decks in small print runs)
• CustomedCards (custom card decks, board agames and more)
• Dr. Finn's Card Company (cards)
• The Game Crafter
• Good Prints (cards)
• Kardwell (custom card decks)
• Delano Service (printing cards, etc.)
• Hertel & Co GmbH, Carl-Benz-Strasse 7, 95448 Bayreuth, Germany (maker of game boards)
• K.T.M. Toys and Graphics
• Manufacturers and Distributors (The Game Cabinet)
• Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Games-Card (Toy Directory site)
• Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Games-Other (Toy Directory site)
• Manufacturers and Wholesalers of Materials (Toy Directory site)
• PrinterStudio (personalized decks of 54+ cards at very low prices)
• Print n Play Productions (boards, boxes, cards)
• Tom Jolly's links on manufacturing/marketing a game
• Topway Industrial Co. Ltd.
  Block F 19/F Kingsway Ind. Bldg., 173-175 Wo Yi Hop Road,, Kwai Chung, N.T., Hong Kong, Tel: (852) 24271887, Fax: (852) 24803138
  Offers: custom made cards, 16mm Double Color Dice, 40mm Double Color Chips, 1.5" Chips, 0.875", 0.75" and 0.625" Chips, 0.875" Poker Chips, Playing Pawns of different sizes and styles, Universal Card Holders, Sand Timers, Bells, Plastic Scissors, Car Playing Pieces, Train Playing Pieces, Play Dough, Blank Dice, Paint Squeezers with Paint and Brush, Glitter Glue, Poker Cards, Chess (plastic or wooden), Checkers (plastic or wooden), Electronic Timers, Drawstring Bags, Pickup Sticks, etc...
• US Playing Card
• Yaquinto (cards)

• BoardGameDesign - mailing list
• Board Game Designers Forum
• boardgamemakers -mailing list
• Nuts & Bolts: Physical Side of Game Design
• rec.games.design newsgroup (but often is mostly computer game oriented)
• Spielbox-online: Spieleautoren (German, open forum about projects, test groups, design questions, etc.)
• Spieleautoren-Seite (German, includes mailing list, list of what publishers are seeking, news, inventor conventions, addresses of inventors, etc.)
• Spiele Autoren Zunft (German, alliance of game inventors to further their common interests)
• Wargame Creators list
• Wargame Development Group

• Game Submission Form
• Spel Maken (Dutch)
• Maps - University of Texas
• Baumgarten Plasti Bands - non-decaying bands
• International Currency Exchange - foreign bank drafts
• PROMT - one of the clearest online language translation sites
• T-Mail - translation of email messages
• InterTran - can translate between 676 different language pairs
• FreeTranslation.com - translates any web page or up to 1300 words of text
• Online-Dictionaries - German-English

• about.com
• Nice Bits by Mike Siggins (The Game Cabinet)

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