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Making the Game: Geek Designers Discuss Their Own Games, A Meta-List.
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I've made a geeklist recently giving a behind the scenes look at making my own games, and since I've posted that I've seen a few others. I'm sure there must be more that I haven't seen, so please add on if you know of any others.
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1. Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.32 Overall Rank:2]
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 Andreas Seyfarth discusses Puerto Rico's ancestral games.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
2. Board Game: Funny Friends [Average Rating:6.59 Overall Rank:613]
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 Marcel-André Casasola Merkle discusses the origins of his games.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
3. Board Game: Fortress Europa [Average Rating:6.52 Overall Rank:1332]
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 Alan Moon discusses his days at Avalon Hill.
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4. Board Game: Marvin Marvel’s Marvelous Marble Machine [Average Rating:6.44 Overall Rank:2820]
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 My list discusses life as an independent self-publisher.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listi...
5. Board Game: Nin-Gonost [Average Rating:6.25 Unranked]
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 Paul DeStefano´s :

TRUE story of life of a game company, BGG and me
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/13921
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6. Board Game: Axis & Allies [Average Rating:6.97 Overall Rank:304]
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 Mike Selinker's 15-part discussion of his work on the 2004 revised version of Axis & Allies is superb:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/article/ah20031205a
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Yeah, this is a very cool series of articles.
7. Board Game: Wiz-War [Average Rating:7.01 Overall Rank:380]
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 Tom Jolly offers advice to aspiring game designers
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8. Board Game: 6 Billion [Average Rating:5.34 Overall Rank:4903]
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 David Coutts discusses the making of 6 Billion
http://www.discovergames.com/gamedesign.html
9. Board Game: Wings of War - The Dawn of World War II [Average Rating:7.12 Overall Rank:377]
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 Let's not forget Andrea Angiolino's list...
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/2063
10. Board Game: Power Grid [Average Rating:8.20 Overall Rank:3]
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 New Addition:

The origins of my games (Friedemann Friese)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/19015
11. Board Game: Ad Acta [Average Rating:6.18 Overall Rank:2208]
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 New addition:

The origins of my games (Andrea Meyer)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/19681
12. GeekList: Self-Publishing The Hard Way - Highs And Lows
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 Jackson Pope discusses the self-publishing of his game, Border Reivers, and others.
13. Board Game: Elementalis [Average Rating:5.30 Overall Rank:4625]
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 Robert Kalajlan's 3 part blog about designing Elementalis

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14. Board Game: Honeypot [Average Rating:7.05 Unranked]
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 Marc Majcher and his design group blogged about making Honeypot
15. Board Game: Search for Poseidon's Gold [Average Rating:6.09 Unranked]
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 Doug Borresen tells the story on the making of his self-published game The Search for Poseidon's Gold.
16. GeekList: Warpspawn: Fantastico!!!
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 Lloyd Krassner of Warspawn Game discusses The Big Book of Games and other offerings.

In a separate geeklist, he rants about print and play games in general in Delusions of Grandeur: Print & Play Game Designer's Rant List.
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17. Cannonball Colony :: Thread: Designer's Notes for Cannonball Colony
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 Phil Harding discusses some of the background for his latest abstract.
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And again in this more detailed thread.
18. Thread: Game Design & Self-Publishing – A Resource for Game Designers
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 Byron Collins' exhaustive discussion of self publishing his upcoming war games, Frontline General and Frontline General: Italian Campaign Introduction. Very thorough hashing over of the various details it takes to self publish a game.
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19. Thread: From Idea to reality
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 Michael Walsh talks about making his print and play game, Back to Blighty.
20. Thread: My Anti-Climactic Adventure of Becoming a Published Designer
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 Aaron Watson discusses how his game "Temple of the Monkey" became "The Princess Bride: Storming the Castle".
21. GeekList: Getting a Game Made Professionally
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 Jackson Pope discusses going from self-publishing to publishing full-time.
22. Board Game: Pack & Stack [Average Rating:6.51 Overall Rank:953]
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 For those interested, I just started a blog featuring the design process involved in games that are released from our Berlin playtesting group:

http://berlingamedesign.blogspot.com/

Thanks for this list--I always find it fascinating to hear how a game is developed. I have even come to enjoy the design process almost more than playing finished games!
23. GeekList: The origins of my games (Michael Schacht)
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 Michael Schacht discusses his games. So far it's only four of his, but I imagine he'll get to his more well known games.

Edit: It's now up to 55 games.
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24. GeekList: Someone Asked Me to Rank The Games I've Designed... So I Did.
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 John Clowdus rates his own games.
25. GeekList: You're my Inspiration! - Games where designers have acknowledged the influence of other games
 
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 This Geeklist certainly fits the bill.
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Peter Morrison explains his game from beginning to end.

Viktory II

http://www.viktorygame.com/viktoryiihistory/
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Mike Selinker's list is definitely a must-read.
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