One leg up hobbyists can have on professionals is hyper-local audience targetting. At my alma mater there is a tradition of putting on shows. They are a mixtur

One leg up hobbyists can have on professionals is hyper-local audience targetting. At my alma mater there is a tradition of putting on shows. They are a mixture of situational comedy, singing, and basically anything entertaining you can do on a scene. Crucially, they are by the university, for the university, and about the university. They are some of the funniest things I've ever seen. And they achieve this by having an incredible amount of injokes and references, that just wouldn't work for a general audience. So this would be my message to hobbyist board game makers: Make one aboout your university, company, town, or maybe about your other hobby. Tell your own story. Reference people and events that will be familiar.