I sometimes teach paleontology where I work, and that is a science rife with classification and categorization. As I've been thinking mo...

So, it seems to me that there are a bunch of competing qualities that make games interesting to potential players. Let's see if I can n...

Today, I'd like to share my thinking with regard to the economic viability of publishing games with relatively small print runs. This wo...

I talked about boardgame competitions in my earlier post here . Here's another one:  MindGames from Mensa . I thought initially that the...

Jackson Pope of Reiver Games has a post up at Boardgame Geek about the financial history of his company, and a follow-up post on his blog ....

Again via Boardgame News  and the Paper Money podcast, there's a protest  planned on the upcoming game based on King Phillip's War....

It's the Lord of the Rings Adventure Game .  Just putting it out there.  The game is a race game, with each player trying to move along ...

I've been hearing about game competitions a good deal recently, and they seem interesting. The Hippodice competition just ended for thi...

This is bumming me out:  34 days and counting.  Or processing, or whatever. UPDATE :  I finally got my order from SuperiorPOD 40 days (and...

I'm a pretty good programmer, and I like to think of myself as a pretty good game designer.  However, I'm pretty much a crummy arti...

My earlier post  covered the game Train , about the Holocaust, which is an unusual choice of topic for a game. Via BoardgameNews , there...

I had another four-player game of my game, Diggity , with the lunchtime gaming group at Guilford College last Friday.  It went well, I thoug...

I'm trying to figure out whether to include rules in different languages in the manufactured form of my game. Many games currently in s...

There's this "game" called Train  that's been in the news  recently. I put the word game in quotes because designer Brenda...

I bought some of these boxes from Papermart.com to box up print-on-demand versions of Diggity to share with friends. I got style 07350, t...

With regard to my recent ISBN/UPC posts (here and here), Tim Harrison of Games on the Brain says: I checked a number of games I own. None...

I'm currently enjoying Mass Effect II for XBox - I'm about 15 hours into it. It's kind of funny, though, that nearly every chara...

I had a chance to play Dixit a couple weeks ago. It was clever, fun, and very pretty. The basic idea is that the players all have a set o...

So, I've been looking further into the barcoding process for games, as I discussed earlier in this post about UPCs and ISBNs . It's...

By virtue of him noticing this blog, I noticed Brett Gilbert's blog, BrettSpiel .  Lots of great information there, including a series o...

I played an interesting game last week called Are You the Traitor?  It was pretty fun as a party game, reminiscent of Werewolf (described he...

Following up on my post on boxes from a couple days ago, I've heard on a couple of forums (e.g. BGDF )  that this company , the Marion ...

My game and I got written up by my friend Bob at Pixelated Geek .  Neato.

After my recent post on Little Green Guys with Guns , I thought I should maybe give homage to a little-known game with similar mechanics tha...

For those of you looking for a boardgame-like experience online, I'd recommend Little Green Guys with Guns (at lggwg.com ). I'll ad...

I'm finding boxes to be the most expensive part of a game.  Looking at my card game, Diggity , the initial quotes I'm getting are fo...

I've had some luck creating home-made versions of cards for my games using a variety of stuff, from completely hand-made, hand-written p...

One of the things I've looked into for self-publishing is getting a UPC (Universal Product Code).  Looking at games already on the marke...

One independent game design partnership, creators of Inevitable: The Game , has managed to fund publication of their game through an online ...