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Compatibility iPhone Requires iOS 4. OneDrive syncs all of my computers together. I can also share documents with my artists, co-designers, and the manufacturing quotes with the business side of the house. Because I work more in OneDrive I prefer that. When I need to see how things come together on the table, I reach for tried and true game design tools. I just cut up some paper and draw my little components.

I draw, the tiles, chits, card information or whatever onto the bits of paper. Once I have these I can shuffle them around on the table to get an idea of what it will play like. I call this papertyping. Papertyping in itself is a critical game design tool.

After this, you have a pretty good idea if this game is going to go anywhere or not. If it does, we move on to Mid stage design. At this point I am pretty sure we are going to at least do a real prototype of the game. To build that, we need some kind of artwork, and to have that put on to some components.

Here is where things get a bit sticky for me. I am not an artist. Only you and your play-testers will see this. I have been using Paint. Net , and Expression Design for most of the art work I do. You will need something to push pixels around with. You can hire and artist to do all of this for you.

When you are just starting though, you will do a lot of the work yourself. You will need a passing familiarity with some kind of graphic tools like Paint. I have heard of people using PowerPoint or Pages for this, however the people that do this for a living tend to use the Adobe suite of products. Once you are on your feet, you might be able to invest in them. There will be a point where you need to crunch some numbers.

Spreadsheets are really good at this. I use Excel.