I finished up a recent game design with some testing over the holidays. I got it worked up for The Game Crafter's Roll-And-Write contest...

I got interviewed! Pretty neat. Thanks to George for providing the neat series of interviews with designers. https://gjjgames.blogspot.c...

I've been really enjoying Splendor, which I was given for Christmas. I've played a couple times in the past week after playing it f...

I made a video for my new boardgame design, Wrath. This is a game I've been working on for about a year. I'm entering it in a design...

Working on Dr. Esker's Notebook has given me some energy to go back and get some of my earlier projects going again. I spent a good chu...

I had the great pleasure to be on The Cubist podcast with host Bill Corey, talking about puzzle game design and lots of other topics. Give ...

I've been working on a new puzzle card game over the summer. It's modeled after an escape room experience, but based in a de...

My first new boardgame design in a while is in production at TheGameCrafter.com . Very cool feeling!  It's a worker placement game set a...

Here's an interesting post by a fellow game designer (and one-time fellow improv comedian) Nick Bentley on scoring tracks in games.  ...

I found this post by James Mathe from someone in the boardgame design community on Google+.  It's a really great summary of steps to pu...

From The Whitest Kids U'Know.  I think a few of my early designs might have shared this flaw.

I'm waiting for the results of this month's BGDF Game Design Showdown , with the theme of Grow Up!   I haven't entered much in r...

Here's a post  from IrregularWebComic.net with some great principles of game design.  The beginning of the article goes into a historic...

The folks over at The Gamer's Table have been doing video reviews of games for some time, and this year they invited submissions of ind...

Two things coming up in the next 6 hours - The judging for the 23rd Ludum Dare competition will close. Mine ( Teeming ) was one of 1402...

Cartrunk.net is a game design website run by John Moller. I heard of it through coverage of a convention of sorts they run for unpublished ...

Some good advice here from a reviewer - somebody who likely reads a good many more rules documents than your typical game designer.

In my last post , I mentioned my newest game project, tentatively called Horde.  The original submission was for a contest entry at BGDF and...

So, I entered a game in the newly-shrunken monthly BGDF design showdown in January .  I got second in the voting. I'll put up a few pos...

This is a good article, with lots of advice I should take to heart but don't always.