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Summary

Game designers and people interested in the design aspects of games (board, video, role playing, etc.) have a forum of discussion within the Usenet group rec.games.design. Members of this community gather to compare notes on various aspects of design, including, systems, ideas for games, inner workings of games, and other design specific topics. If you are a beginning game designer, visit the newsgroup FAQ where you will find lots of advice for people new to design and to the newsgroup such as copyright information, "10 commandments" for game design beginners, advice on which programming language is best, jobs in game design, newsgroup guidelines, game design links to websites, books, periodicals, etc. Conversation within the newsgroup centers around individual designer's research and requests for help, mathematical aspects of board design, links to user-designed games, announcements of gatherings, reviews of new games and their design, petitions for assistance with game design projects, et cetera.