We got FITS for Christmas too.  I wasn't able to interest anybody last night, so I tried it solo.  Well, solo at first, and then my 5-y...

I gave my daughter Agricola  for Christmas (a Homer gift  if ever there was one, although she loves games too).  We've played two games ...

XKCD has a neat image that lays out ideal Tic Tac Toe strategy .  The image is a little complicated to read at first, but once you figure ou...

Here's another game that's made it to Hippodice for 2011.  Looks pretty polished (and very Carcassone-like).  I really like the art...

A weird topic this month from the game design showdown at BGDF.  They want something that relates to the holidays, plus something that rela...

I just got done taking part in Matt Worden's game designer chat on TheGameCrafter.com 's new chat tool.  Interesting, although I was...

Dominant Species  is here - looks like it might compete thematically with my game Galapagos (which may have to be renamed given that there...

Matt Worden has taken the indie publication leap of faith  with his game, Jump Gate .  It sounds like he's stepping out in a big way, co...

One of the two games I entered in the  Hippodice  competition has made it through the first cut.   Yoggity  didn't make the cut from 190...

In response to my post on Visible Hand's incorporation , Reader Daniel writes: What is this LLC, can you pleas inform us non US people...

Michael Keller over at Game Designer Wannabe  has formed his own publishing company and apparently issued stock certificates.  Pretty awesom...

The following is my entry for the BGDF design showdown for October.  Enjoy... Hercules: The Later Years Story: After his labors, Hercules ...

The Hippodice  site says they'll have the preliminary first-round results up on November 17.  Pretty exciting.  The games that make it t...

Looks like I came in a close third of four.  A bit frustrating; this time around I actually designed the game pretty quickly after the conte...

Here's another competition  of which I just recently learned.  Looks like a reasonable deal; you send them a description, they chose a s...

Matt Worden's Jump Gate, which won the 2010 Game of the Year award from Games Magazine, is moving into a boxed edition (and presumably ...

My entry is in.  An interesting contest assignment  this month - the theme is Hercules and his labors, plus you have to use three of a list ...

A  really interesting post  over at the Starlit Citadel detailing why paying middlemen (i.e. distributors) is actually a good deal for retai...

SuperiorPOD has unveiled a new web interface and some new products, both of which are improvements.  The old website was a bear to use; yo...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

... and a total nerd. Interview by my good friend Bob Beshere, Ph.D.

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...

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

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

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...