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Hello Tondalaya,
Designing board games is a lot of fun!
We don’t have a game coming out this month. We just finished putting on the Toy and Game Inventor Conference http://www.tandgcon.com, Social Media at Play Conference http://www.smapcon.com, Toy and Game Inventor of the Year Awards http://www.tagieawards.com and Chicago Toy and Game Fair http://www.chitag.com.
You can email me at mcouzin (at) chitag.com. Before you do, please ready some of the articles on http://www.DiscoverGames.com. This is a site we maintain for inventors.
My Best,
Mary Couzin
Chicago Toy and Game Group
Hi Mary Couzine I been trying to email you( my computer). I have an learning board games. I have taking it to my attorney, and he couldn’t stop playing it. All why he talk to me he kept playing it. My grandkids love it. But you can learn from it at any age, its fun. I have been looking on my computer for help.And saw you with an game comming out this month. How can I get some help to selling my game. I have 9 other games you can learn from. But they are not boardsgames. One at a time. If my board game gets out it will help chilren learn. And its an familly game to. Something you can play with freinds at an party. With this game you can play it, one on one or with an group.
Hi Gary,
Thank you for the suggestion. I am very familiar with BoardGameGeek, it is a terrific site, but our whole site is about supporting teachers, librarians, homeschoolers, parents, etc. in using board game in learning. We have hundreds of articles of real life experience and research. Our newsletter goes out to over 232,000 educators. We needed to have a database that was customized to their needs and in one website.
We have posted about GamesforEducators.com on BGG and asked members to submit articles that we could post. If this is your area of expertise, we’d love to have an article from you.
Hi Mary,
If you aren’t already familiar with it, you might try using the database on BoardGameGeek, specifically, starting a geeklist about educational games. There are a lot of users on there that might have suggestions for you.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/
Thank you, Rex. If you have an article you would like to see us post to the site, just let us know.
Thanks for pointing out your site to us, Mary—we’ve added it to the links.
We believe board games can teach many things and have devoted a website to research and classroom/library experience at http://www.gamesforeducators.com.
Last week we debuted a Game Finder that educators/librarians/parents/anyone can search for a game by subject, skill, age level, educational benefit, etc. It is community driven and we welcome additions. Pandemic is included.
Mary Couzin
Chicago Toy and Game Group