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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Another good Diggity review

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Endymian (Ian Stedman), who's also a proud new father, reviewed Diggity over at The Gamer's University , cross-posted to TheGameCra...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

More on the CE mark

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Wow, there are a lot of skeezy CE Mark firms, eager to collect fees.  I've been wading through it some, and it sounds like my company ca...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

CE mark for European market?

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As I'm getting closer to printing, I'm worrying more about what's on the outside of the box.  I've posted before on ISBN/EAN...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

BGDF contest - entry in!

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Got my entry in for the BGDF contest this month.  I spent about four hours on it this afternoon, plus another one last night before bed.  F...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Dice!

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Polyhedral dice are just way cool. I knew this when I was 13 or so, and the knowledge persisted until maybe 26-27, but when I started teachi...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

BGDF July contest

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The new BGDF Design Showdown for July is up, and it's much less restrictive than previous ones.  You need to have some theme related to...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Yoggity photos!

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Here are some images showing the new artwork for my game  Yoggity .  The art is by Jason Greeno (at GreenoDesign.com ) - he did a really gre...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Even more contests

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The forces behind Protospiel have announced a game design contest.  It's described here .  While this is exciting, and Diggity might be...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Slow progress

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I sought my first quotes for Diggity  back in December, although those were more exploratory than definite.  I got an artist signed on in Ma...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Nothing new under the sun

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I just saw a picture  of some folks playing a mining card game that looked a bit like Diggity , and after some research, I realized it is ca...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Getting games to distributors

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James at MinionGames.com  recommends Impressions Advertising ( http://www.impressionsadv.net ) as both a stepping stone to distributors and ...
Monday, July 19, 2010

TGC + SuperiorPOD: Official Announcement

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They've announced it officially; SuperiorPOD and TheGameCrafter have joined forces, with the web side managed by TGC and the production...

Fun - the key ingredient.

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A great post by Brett over at Brettspiel.com  on one of the big pitfalls with game design.  The resulting game has to be fun, regardless of...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Getting into stores

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This is a little ways down the road, but I found myself at our local Hobby Lobby, and I got to talking with the manager there.  I asked him ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Promotional copies

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An interesting thread over at BGDF about places to advertise your game, with a list of five on-line boardgame reviewers.  I think it will l...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Another indie publisher

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I've run across a guy, Johnny Wahl, who's farther along than I am self-publishing his own game, called Conquer the Kings . It's ...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Another contest

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Trask over at LivingDice.com reports on a new contest sponsored by Blue Panther LLC.  I haven't been able to find the press release or ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Tasty Minstrel

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Michael Mindes over at Tasty Minstrel games posted an interesting defense of a decision to sell one of TM's products, Terra Prime , at ...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Gentoo Rules

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This was my entry (the winning entry) for the June BGDF game design showdown . The contest required a deck building component and also a sl...
Monday, July 12, 2010

June BGDF Challenge Results

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Looks like my entry, Gentoo, narrowly won the June BGDF design competition . Woohoo! This is the third month I've participated, and I...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

RPG map-making on the fly and on the cheap

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I made this map for an upcoming RPG session.  I like how it came out - I'm no artist, but I was able to use some terrain generation stu...
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Xinghui

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James at MinionGames.com reports a bad experience with Xinghui games here and here .  They were the very low China #1 price on my earlier ...
Friday, July 9, 2010

TGC Sticker issues

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One of the coolest things TheGameCrafter.com  does is let you print stickers that you can then affix to their 1.25" tokens.  I've b...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

CloudBerryGames

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I've learned of a new site,  CloudBerryGames.com , that looks like an effort to bring together designers, artists, and others to help ga...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

TGC outsourcing to SuperiorPOD?

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So, some customers at TGC have been getting shipping notifications from a Jeff Valent with regard to their orders.  See  here.  That would s...
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Yoggity Quick Peek

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Here's a quick peek at the new Yoggity components fresh out of the box.  My crappy webcam doesn't do them justice, but they look gr...
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Monday, July 5, 2010

BGDF design contest thoughts

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Just finished reading and critiquing the BGDF entries for June .  Some good ones there.  And some not-so-good. I've been enjoying this...
Sunday, July 4, 2010

TGC now printing more stuff in color

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I got my new version of Yoggity with the art from Jason Greeno ( GreenoDesign.com ) from TheGameCrafter.com , and it looks pretty great.  So...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Eleven entries!

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The June BGDF design showdown received 11 entries!  I'm not sure why it was so popular this time - maybe because some versions of the th...
Friday, July 2, 2010

New Facebook game - LuckyTrain

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The company my brother works for just released their first product, a Facebook-based social game called LuckyTrain .  It's a pretty clev...
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