Just got done reading through the BGDF contest entries for August and casting my votes.  Neat stuff - there are a number of them with very c...

Bruno Faidutti, noted game designer, wrestles with changes required in the art for one of his games over at his blog.  The game involves ex...

Via   Purple Pawn , I learned there's an interesting new service for game enthusiasts.  It's the Boardgame Exchange  - essentially, ...

That was fast.   Eight of them , ranging from a new card game with a standard deck of cards to a couple with over 240 pieces.  Lots of artwo...

I got my entry in for the August BGDF showdown .  I think it's a good one.  The problem is, I had to rush at the end, and I never got a ...

James at Minion Games has given some more details about his Xinghui printing troubles (which I've discussed before ) here at this BGDF p...

The company my brother works for, A Bit Lucky , has produced a social Facebook game called Lucky Train , in which you build a small town and...

I'm guessing my LLC registration went through, not because I've heard anything from the state, but because I got two pieces of mail ...

About a year ago, my brother turned me onto a great computer game called Slay (available here ) by Sean O'Connor.  The game is basically...

I've been playing some of this over the last couple of weeks.  It took a while, but I've really started enjoying the single-player c...

Lots of conditions for the BGDF design showdown this month - shared resources, at least four players, and two people have to win simultaneo...

My friend Jon, one of the early adopters of Diggity, shared the game with friends in Pennsylvania over the summer, and he says it was well-r...

My daughter taught me Stress today.  Interesting game, but the design is weird.  The game is set up (and the object stated in such a way) s...

I ordered copies of Yoggity for the Rio Grande competition today.  I added some informational cards - I hope they help the players at the Me...

Got my LLC filing back from the Secretary of State's office saying they needed an address on line three.  The same address that it came ...

While waiting for art for Diggity , I've been thinking about a puzzle game.  I was playing some Snoodoku , and trying to figure out what...

I fixed (I hope) a nagging problem on my pinball machine today - replaced the opto sensor for the saucer trough so that it can detect balls ...

The rules to my entry for the BGDF contest are here .  Pictures, too.  It shares some elements with Diggity what with the map building, but ...

My entry in the July BGDF showdown won!  Yippee.  I had fun thinking this one up.  I went with simultaneous movement for one phase the game ...

I learned last week that the makers of Stratego have reordered their pieces in the recent games, so that the good ones are now the higher nu...

BoardgameNews.com reports on a new small Italian game company called Albe Pavo , which consists of a designer plus an artist.  That's ...

On the most recent edition of Paper Money , Ben and Rett talked with Rob Boyle, a guy who has done a lot of work on the Shadowrun RPG but is...

I filed the Articles of Organization for Plankton Games LLC today.  Not a huge step in terms of what I had to do, but a big psychological st...

The entries for the July BGDF Design Showdown are up here.  Voting ends soon.  Only five entries this time, and they took a variety of diff...

Here's a new blog, Inspiration to Publication ( http://inspirationtopublication.wordpress.com ) that looks at bringing a game to public...

We played our new copy of Pandemic earlier this week.  Four players, the easy version (with four epidemic cards).  It was a lot of fun; we c...

I played a couple games of Starship Catan today.  It was pretty fun, but it's very tippy - it seems like somebody who gets ahead early w...

Here's  a copy of the CPSIA statement that Koplow Games has posted on ACD ( acdd.com ), a game distributor.  Koplow makes a ton of dice...

I recently visited a game store I've been going to since my college days back in the late 1980's - The Games People Play in Cambrid...

James from MinionGames.com  implies, in response to my question over at BGDF.com , that the CE mark isn't a big deal.  I think I still n...