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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Paint by numbers

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Like Yoggity , here's another game, Pastiche , that deals with combining paint colors to make various other colors.  It looks like you...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Tasty Minstrel Kickstarter fund drive

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Tasty Minstrel games has started a Kickstarter fund drive for its next release, a space-themed card game called Eminent Domain.  Tasty Min...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Sherwood rules

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The following are the rules for the game I submitted for the September BGDF design showdown.  The restrictions were that it had to have a ...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Small-Time Publishing Advice from Ben Clark @ Paper Money

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In the most recent Paper Money podcast , Ben Clark discusses small-time independent publishing, specifically self-publishing.  An interestin...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Entries in for Hippodice

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I've got two entries -  Diggity  and  Yoggity  - submitted for the 2011 Hippodice Autorenwettbewerb .  They have a first stage which is ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Game Review: Race for the Galaxy

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I got a chance to play Race for the Galaxy last week too. It was a lot of fun. It has a pretty steep learning curve, but I was getting it fi...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Hey, I'm famous...

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... and a total nerd. Interview by my good friend Bob Beshere, Ph.D.
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Game Review: Dominion

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I finally had a chance to play Dominion  last week, so I have an understanding now what the fuss is all about. It's a clever design - e...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Inevitable no longer evitable

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The Kickstarter-funded project to produce the Inevitable board game has come to fruition - they've taken delivery of several pallets of...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Another project funding site

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Reader Dave Conklin of Oak Tree Games  writes to suggest IndieGoGo.com as an alternative to Kickstarter.com for project funding.  He's...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Jump Gate wins Games GOTY

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I posted a few days ago about Matt Worden's Jump Gate , which is an indie game published through The Game Crafter . Well, Games Magazin...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Yoggity Reader Mail

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Reader Daniel writes the following about my  recent post on Yoggity : So have you decided how to tackle the judges' "ruling"...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

More on Yoggity and kids

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The judges at Gamecon Memphis thought my game Yoggity  was suited for 6-8 year old kids.  I certainly need to listen to that feedback and fi...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Memphis results

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Here's the final wrap-up from the Gamecon Memphis competition.  My game, Yoggity , got third, with a recommendation that it might be b...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Jump Gate review and the complexity of newfangled technology

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Matt Worden is (at least superficially) like me - he's designed a number of computer games, is also into designing board games, and has...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Rio Grande contest wrapup

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I'm still trying to get a sense of what happened at Gamecon Memphis, but the result is clear; the winner of the regional there was a gam...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Robin Hood BGDF contest

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The entries  are up.  Some interesting ones - the Robin Hood theme made most of them overlap in terms of plot  and layout, but the minigame ...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Sell sheets

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I haven't spent any time trying to convince publishers to pick up one of my games, but this  post on sell sheets from Jay Cormier  seems...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

BGDF contest for September

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I got my entry in for the Robin Hood BGDF contest for September.  In addition to a Robin Hood theme, you had to include two mini-games, whe...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Gamecon Memphis competition is now

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Yoggity's being played today for the Rio Grande competition - I'm frustrated I can't be there, but excited about the feedback I ...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Still another Kickstarter project

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Here's another one, this one the game Scoops from TableStar Games .  TableStar seems to have a pretty extensive lineup of other games, ...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Another Kickstarter project

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Lines of Fire.  Neat - this one got funded rapidly, for a small but effective amount of money, for a short-run (100 copies) of a card-based ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Crazy

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I haven't had a lot of time to write posts recently - work is heating up, and most of my game stuff is behind the scenes or waiting (con...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Tasty Minstrel Games Refer-a-Friend

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Tasty Minstrel Games  has a new refer-a-friend program, where you post customized links to their pages, and if your friends go to the site a...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

New monthly BGDF contest

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A Robin Hood theme , with TWO OR MORE minigames, and robbing from the rich worked in somehow.  Man.  This is tough.
Friday, September 24, 2010

Snood digs deeper into pop culture

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My game, Snood , was mentioned on last night's episode of 30 Rock .  Pretty awesome.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

GameCon Memphis Schedule

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They have the schedule up - Yoggity's on tap for Saturday early morning and early afternoon, plus I guess they could play it during the...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Splitsville for SuperiorPOD and TheGameCrafter

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After a relatively short marriage, SuperiorPOD and TheGameCrafter are parting ways.  Here's the official announcement .  I've posted...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Hippodice timing

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OK, so, I have two good candidates for the Hippodice competition - Diggity  and Yoggity .   Cult  I think is too language-dependent; part of...

Flash Duel

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Yesterday, I mentioned Flash Duel from Sirlin Games .  It sells for $13-$16 in the normal version (cards and rules only) and $30+ for the d...
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