What this lab is
Where the Game Design hub is the professional community of authors and publishers, the Game Design Lab is the experimental bench: a place to invent mechanics, break formats and playtest ideas that are too early, too strange or too risky for a product roadmap.
The lab is forming now. It runs on rapid cycles — propose, prototype, playtest, write up — and its findings belong to everyone: new mechanics, tested and documented, that any member can build on.
What members will do
Who it's for
Designers and facilitators who enjoy the early, uncertain phase of making games — and playtesters who like being the first group a strange new idea meets.
Help build the Game Design lab
It's free to apply, and founding members shape the lab from day one — the agenda, the standards, the community. Tell us this is your lab in your application.