emma_lee22•18d agoProlific Poster

Switched from dry erase to a paper planner for my game design notes

I was using a whiteboard for tracking rule changes in my card game prototype, but after erasing a critical balance tweak by accident twice last month, I moved everything to a cheap spiral notebook. Has anyone else found paper just works better for keeping complicated board game mechanics straight?

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finleym3718d ago

Same reason people use notebooks for DnD instead of tablets. Something about paper just sticks better for game logic.

davidshah17d agoMost Upvoted

Three fully charged tablets died on me during one session. Paper never crashes.

jackson.max17d ago

@finleym37 hit it with that DnD notebook thing. I think the real secret is that paper forces you to slow down and actually process what you're writing (instead of just typing it out on autopilot like a robot). For game mechanics especially, I've found that drawing a quick flowchart by hand helps me spot logic holes way faster than any app ever did. Plus, there's something about flipping back through pages and seeing that one crossed out rule from three weeks ago that makes you go "oh wait, that's why I changed it in the first place.