I mentioned earlier I've been trying to do some blind playtesting. I've gotten some good feedback from a playtester I found on BGG ...

Greg Costikyan has posted a slide show on the role of chance in games  which is a pretty exhaustive analysis of the topic. I've always e...

This by Ron Lewis is pretty awesome.  You can buy a T-shirt of it here .

Via BoardGameNews, here's another instance of a company seeking startup capital to launch a board game project via Kickstarter.com .  T...

I recently got an order for a bunch of copies of Diggity, which is cool - a friend is buying 6-7 copies for other friends. He asked me about...

I had another four-person game of Diggity on Friday, with one of my new customers and some students.  Total sales of Diggity are now at 10 -...

I've been writing this blog now for a couple of months, trying to average about a post a day. Google Analytics tells me I've got 120...

It appears I've scored a narrow victory in the April Boardgame Design Showdown at BGDF.com  with my game concept  Drunken Strippers Ahe...

I got a chance to play Diggity with another set of new players - friends who live down the street from us.  We had eight people, and the ga...

Following up on my earlier post on using the iPad for board games, via the Death of Monopoly blog comes a video look at Scrabble for the iP...

I've been having some trouble getting quotes from printers for my publishing run, a process I've been working on since last December...

An interesting article over at the Living Dice blog  that gives a clue as to what goes on at the GAMA trade show recently completed in Las V...

In this post , I mentioned I'd entered the monthly design contest at BGDF.com .  Here's my entry, Drunken Strippers Ahead .  There a...

I got a chance to see an iPad today - a student brought one in and was really excited about it.  It was a neat gizmo, as are most Apple prod...

I just ran across this video of a guy playing the GameBoy Advance version of my game, Snood , about as fast as I can imagine it being playe...

I entered the monthly design contest on BGDF for the first time this month. The prompt for the contest was to use this image of warning sig...

I've recently gotten an artist to take a swing at my game, Diggity . I found him on BoardgameGeek.com , and it seems like he does good w...

From this post from the owner of Starlit Citadel , an online retailer, comes a lot of seemingly good advice about getting them to sell a ga...

I'm working on getting some playtesters who'll try playing my game with no contact or help other than my written rules.  I have a c...

A funny post  at TheBoardGameBlog about typical game-playing behaviors. I've been all five of these at different times, although I tend ...

I know there are some party games, like Charades and Dictionary, which have their roots in Victorian parlor games. Others are more physical,...

I just posted a review of Ricochet Robots , and as I was writing it, I was thinking about the kind of game that's really just a competit...

I played Ricochet Robots  (from  Rio Grande Games  and other publishers, designed by Alex Randolf) with the Guilford College Yachting Club a...

In an earlier post  on boxes, I faced the conundrum of whether to go with a simpler tuckbox for my game, Diggity , or whether to pay more to...

The post I referenced earlier has been transferred to a discussion on BoardGame Geek , where, unsurprisingly, people have strongly held con...

Via Penny Arcade  I learned of a new service called GameCrush , where interested game players can connect with opponents for online gaming o...

My earlier post compared TheGameCrafter.com with SuperiorPOD.com .  There's also  Artscow.com , another popular print-on-demand source...

Another interesting comment by Philip at BGDF on the role of artwork in games. I'm nervous about this - I feel like art's not terr...

These guys  at Custom-Tradingcards.com seem set up to do fairly inexpensive printing of cards, although their focus is definitely on tradin...

OK, here's a comparison between my experience with TheGameCrafter.com and SuperiorPOD.com , two print-on-demand game publishing service...