So you want to make a board game? Do you love being creative, making your friends laugh, and bringing people together? Or do you enjoy designing unique experiences for others and watching them plan out intense strategies or squirm when the game world crushes them? There are lots of reasons to make a game, and lots of ways to go about it. In this book, I want to give you the simplest overview of game development, or game dev. How to scratch the surface of this wonderful, adventurous, and exciting creative field. When you're making board games, you're creating entire worlds - the only limit is our imagination... and the laws of physics, I guess.