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Everything on this site, as files you can keep, edit and hand to a collaborator.
How to Create a Good Rulebook ↓
The full practitioner’s handbook: seven parts covering foundations, architecture, craft, production, process, evidence and templates. Includes the master rulebook skeleton, a style-guide worksheet, a blind-playtest protocol and the pre-print checklist.
Rulebook Research Database ↓
The complete research data: 106 sources with clickable URLs, 127 findings with citations, 68 rulebooks praised and criticised, 10 section templates, 26 style rules, the 46-item checklist, 16 quantitative reference points, and the failure taxonomy.
วิธีสร้าง Rulebook ที่ดี (Thai handbook) ↓
The full handbook in Thai — the same seven parts, written for Thai-speaking designers.
เขียน Rulebook ให้คนอยากอ่าน (Thai ebook) ↓
A relaxed, conversational Thai edition for designers at any level — principles, real examples, worksheets and a checklist, written as knowledge-sharing rather than a manual.
ฐานข้อมูลงานวิจัย Rulebook (Thai database) ↓
The full research database in Thai, with the same 106 source URLs and 127 findings.
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These documents summarise and attribute their sources rather than reproducing them. Michael “Curby” Lee’s Board Game Editing Style Guide is licensed CC BY-NC-SA, and the material derived from it is attributed throughout.
If you use this material in your own work, please link back to the original sources — they did the hard part.