Here are the competitors. Fourteen in all, with others maybe still to come.  Looks like a lot of interesting games.  At least three are in ...

As I consider entering all these competitions, it's good also to heed what Tao over at Starlit Citadel writes  - that award-winning game...

The Hippodice contest is one of the best from a designer's point of view - it's widely known, run by serious game enthusiasts, has a...

The B oardgame Designers Guild of Utah apparently has a recurring newsletter now.  A recent issue  has a neat article on the barriers to en...

The perennial Hippodice competition is rolling around again, with a submission deadline of November 1st.  I'm thinking of entering Digg...

I commented on Spy Alley yesterday.  Looking at their site some more, I found some sales figures and history : Interesting Facts: Spy Alley...

We played Spy Alley tonight, a simple boardgame which seems to be published by a small independent game company, Spy Alley Partners LLP .  ...

I'm making some progress getting the art completed for Diggity .  The new stuff looks nice - way better than what I was able to do, whic...

Following my comments on one of my games, Galapagos , commenter Jay points out that the name has been adopted by a game that came out this y...

With my entry in the Rio Grande game contest sent out, I'm eagerly awaiting the results.  The judging is based on total points in a numb...

Getting working on Scryptix again, after an 8-month hiatus.  I need to get some more puzzles made, which is tricky, since they need to star...

An interesting retrospective on the evolution of a game design over at Board Game News - Gil Hova's Prolix .  I haven't played the ...

Chessex offers custom six-sided dice in relatively small quantities here .  Not too economical for a small run (a fully custom die with all ...

Rolled the odometer on the blog here again - I've been doing a post a day since March. When I started, I expected to have my game, Dig...

Dale Yu at BoardGameNews.com has a column  on a (semi-silly) scoring system for how many of the most popular boardgames you have played and ...

The results are in .  My game, Caravan, came in second in a massive four-way tie at five votes, well behind the winner at 11 votes.  The win...

Yoggity's packed up and in the mail to GameCon Memphis.  Exciting - I hope the testers there have fun with it.  We'll see how the co...

Here's a link to PrinterStudio,  another place that will do custom-printed playing cards.  54 card decks, come in a box, personalized b...

I got my new versions of Yoggity from TheGameCrafter.  I need to put the stickers on the parts (wouldn't want to make the testers do tha...

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...