I know when I first began making games I wasted SO MUCH TIME making prototypes. I made too many pieces, spent too much time designing them or I didn't really know what game I was trying to make. And don't get me started on playtesting... I would subject my wife or brother to sitting through a "first run" of the design with no rules, missing pieces and no clear outcomes. It wasn't fun and it didn't really help.

So in this class we'll use a couple worksheets and I'll be giving you some tips so that you can quickly make a series of effective prototypes and then use them to gather all kinds of data to improve your game during strategic playtesting sessions.