I have been the recipient of one of those "cease and desist" letters from a big publisher. They wanted all rights and wanted all the work done upon my game turned over to them. Sent a response basically laughing at them while pointing out how baseless and ridiculous their claim on my work was. Never heard back from them.

If Days of Wonder doesn’t want Shadows Over Brooklyn, then they shouldn’t have any problem seeing it get published by someone else, especially if it gets renamed. That’s just the nature of rejecting something.

The best trick to prove you worked on a concept first, is to use regular mail and send a package with a copy of all your work to yourself. Do not open. Mail will have a timestamp. This should be proof before a judge about timestamps. So let the judge open the package and see its content.

Creating is the easy part. Selling is the hard part. Borrow all you want and it won't help you.

The vicious world of board game designers! 😂

I think most enthusiasts board games at some point have an idea about a game from time to time. Clearly the importance is getting a prototype ready played. Talking about it online always strengthens ones position.

Thanks a lot. The key, as I hear it, is to get a group of board gamers, who are not designers themselves, as playtesters!

Excellent insights Adam !

Hey thanks for this :o I didn't know the legal stuff. I made a prototype of my game with wood and tiles and the main mechanic I BELIEVE is very unique. Havent played alot of board games though.

Great video!

Actually, that was THE ONE question I had like forever

Thanks Adam. Insightful as always.

Great to receive your incite and experience on this.

Glad to have you back!

Great to see you back, Adam. I hope you stay safe and healthy.

I was so happy to see your channel pop up in my subscription feed again. This was - as usual - a very informative video and I learned quite a bit. As I told you on twitter about 6 months ago you inspired me to start designing board games and I still think I'm making progress every single day. I'm very much looking forward to seeing more videos from you soon. Cheers from Germany.

Hooray! Adam is back! I look forward to watching this later today

Good to see you back. Always interesting. Hope all is well with you and your wife. 😀

Super super helpful! I am making a board game version of a video game that I loved playing growing up and I think it would be awesome of more people could enjoy this real life version that uses main core concepts and ideas from the video game but makes it better by making it real life and real life interactions with mini games and engaging with each other rather than engaging a screen.

Thanks a lot , this video answered all my questions 🙂