Much like video game and other digital design, games created by women or non-binary people are important, as board games tell stories and often include characters and artwork. It's in everyone's ...

TIME spoke with Leacock to learn more about the board game explosion and what it’s like to design them for a living. The following conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

The stylized waterfall art of the PARKS box cover is a lovely piece of work, but it doesn’t prepare you for the treasures inside, making it a classic board game addition for any collector.

illustration by Mads Berg This might be why we need board games more than ever. The Rules We Break, the latest book from Eric Zimmerman, professor of game design at the NYU Game Center and ...

I played the upcoming Clash of Clans board game with one of the designers, Eric M. Lang, and chatted about what went into the ...

This current movement of board games influencing video game design germinated in the mid-2010s. One of the most significant titles in this wave is Megacrit’s Slay the Spire. Developed in 2017 ...

who teaches board-game design at New York University and co-authored the encyclopedia of game mechanics, told me. In older games, he said, such as Risk and Monopoly, the goal was, frequently ...