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I'm looking for a textbook for the Board Game Design class I'll be teaching this spring. The class will be a combo of both game design majors and students who presumably have no experience in game dev. The contenders are Building Blocks of Game Design & Game Design Workshop. Am I missing an option?

Building blocks is great, but I’d personally struggle to use it as a textbook. I love the Fullerton book, and I’d also add a suggestion for LeMarchand’s “A Playful Production Process.

Building blocks would be helpful as a reference for mechanics, although I think the encyclopedia aspect of it perhaps makes it a bit dry of a read for those with less experience in board games. I'm playing with the idea of having couple copies as reference and just going through a new mechanic

I use A Playful Production Process in Game Production 2 (when they’re learning about teamwork) so I have a copy you can look at