Played Cult at the bar with the Idiot Box folks - more geeky than Diggity , to be sure, but we managed not to totally geek up the place.  I ...

I'd like to take a moment to comment on a game I've been enjoying for several years now: Hacienda , designed by Wolfgang Kramer.  Th...

Below please find my rules for Mansion, which I submitted to the BGDF monthly design showdown for May, which had a theme of "Home Impro...

Played a game of one of my other designs, Yoggity .  I really like this game (of course, I'm biased).  I'd go for production on it, ...

Via BoardGameNews comes this item on chess boxing , where rounds of chess alternate with rounds of boxing. What an odd concept - deep brain ...

Looks like I've rolled the odometer here, so to speak - 100 posts - so maybe time to take stock.  The project (or quest) is to get Diggi...

If anybody's looking for a place to play Euro-style boardgames online, I heartily recommend SpielByWeb.com  - they have an assortment of...

I've made an entry in the BGDF Design Showdown for May .  I won last month for Drunken Strippers Ahead ; I think my entry this month is ...

I spent much of today editing the rules for Diggity . I incorporated all the feedback I've received from my playtesters, including a new...

The May BGDF design showdown entries are up , including mine, but I obviously won't say which that is yet. Some really creative ones the...

Blogger reports that I've now officially earned . . . two cents. In two months of daily posting.  Hey, everybody, drinks are on me! Th...

I've been trying to incorporate the feedback I got from one helpful set of playtesters for Diggity .  They seemed to like the game, but ...

Here is the mockup card for Diggity I mentioned yesterday.  The green connections are the new ones; the red the old.  Just that little shift...

I've spent parts of  the last few days trying to figure out exactly how to lay out my Diggity cards.  I've got an artist who's ...

My interview  on Paper Money over at Purple Pawn is up!  It was fun to do - a little nervewracking to re-listen to myself now.  I had a go...

Here's another game design contest , sponsored by Rio Grande games.  The contest looks really neat; unlike many others, there's no e...

Following up on yet another topic from my Paper Money discussion, it's interesting that the uber-gamers I've played with have usuall...

On the Paper Money broadcast, the topic of NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) came up.  I think Ben brought it up in jest, and I responded to ...

In my interview(s) with the Paper Money guys, I mentioned (as I have on the blog here ) that I've had some trouble getting quotes back f...

So, I mentioned earlier that Imagigrafx is no longer printing games. I had sought bids from them to produce my game, Diggity . The final pr...

Matt Worden has a post  reviewing  TheGameCrafter.com , where I have so far published my games. His thoughts run mostly where mine do (see ...

I played Diggity  with some friends in a moderately hipster bar (or what passes for one in Greensboro, NC) the other night.  I don't kno...

I had a chance to play Diggity with my long-time friend Jeff the other day.  We played a couple of games that I won pretty easily.  I got b...

I just finished recording an interview about independent game publishing with Rett Kipp and Ben Clark for their Paper Money podcast hosted ...

I've been talking about how people deal with what I've been calling the Big Bet - that big initial investment required to get a game...

Listening to the last Paper Money podcast , where Ben and Rett talked about Jackson Pope closing up Reiver Games, I noticed they'd said ...

At Paper Money , Ben and Rett comment on the downfall of Imagigrafx game manufacturing and on Reiver games, giving some of the backstory to ...

Carrying on from my previous discussion here and here, I thought I'd try for a rudimentary analysis of the luck factor in games.  So, I...

Brett over at BrettSpiel  has a detailed review of the game Small World implemented for iPad.  I'd discussed the iPad as a game platform...

I recently posted  on the idea of randomness in games, and I confessed to being one who likes a little luck in the mix.  I think serious gam...