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Are there any online courses like codecademy.com or teamtreehouse.com for Board Games development? Or something similar where you can learn BG development? Also if you know any other useful resources like books, videos and similar things, please share

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  • I don't know about online courses, but there are a number of books on the topic. If you want to broaden your question to include those, I'll suggest some. – bwarner Feb 22 '16 at 17:57
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    Best way to learn; play many different board games, including ones you wouldn't normally like. – Waterseas Feb 22 '16 at 18:44
  • Highly recommend the book "The Art of Game Design" – Waterseas Feb 22 '16 at 18:51
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is not about a specific board or card game. – Drunk Cynic Feb 22 '16 at 19:06
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    @DrunkCynic I don't think that's a good metric for closing. There are a number of questions on the site that don't refer to a specific board game. "Designing board games" is on-topic for this site, and the OP is asking for objective information. This seems to fit all of the criteria I can find for acceptable questions, except that it may generate a list. – SocioMatt Feb 22 '16 at 19:23
  • @SocioMatt Then there is some ambiguity in the Help Center topic "What topics can I ask about here?", which has a paragraph starting with "For a question to be on topic, it must relate to a game that is on topic..." That was my guidepost for the metric. – Drunk Cynic Feb 22 '16 at 19:42
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    @DrunkCynic In rereading the entire page on the Help Center, I think that "a game" is meant to refer to games that meet the four criteria under "How do we define board games?" I agree this is confusing when taken out of context. If we assumed that questions had to relate to a game that already existed, then design would be off-topic, which would contradict the first sentence of What topics can I ask about here? – SocioMatt Feb 22 '16 at 19:56
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    Reopening - There is no requirement that a question be about only one game. – Pat Ludwig Feb 23 '16 at 06:34
  • Thank you everyone :) @bwarner I boraden question, can you suggest books please? tnx – Petar Popovic Feb 23 '16 at 12:32
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    I am voting to close this question because it is essentially the same as a game recommendation question, which is off-topic for this site. – Thunderforge Jun 03 '18 at 21:11
  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it as asking for school advice – esoterik Jun 04 '18 at 18:21

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Here are a couple EdX options. The first is about game design (both board and computer games). The second focuses on games meant for education.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-game-design-mitx-11-126x https://www.edx.org/course/design-development-games-learning-mitx-11-127x

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