Here's a really useful post from Jackson Pope over at Reiver Games , where he details his experience running a small independent publish...

Tom Gurganus interviewed Chad Ellis of Your Move Games , and Chad has some really good advice for getting useful playtests and also thinking...

Now that classes and end-of-year reports and such are finished, I've made some progress on the puzzle game project I mentioned back in ...

I agree with nearly everything Matt Thrower says here , although the last point seems specific only to reviewers of games and not to designe...

I had a neat idea for a simple computer puzzle game in the middle of last week.  Given that it's nearing the end of my semester, I won...

There's an interesting discussion on what makes rules good over at BGG.  Lots of good ideas and useful observations there for people wr...

Below is my entry in the huge February BGDF Game Design Showdown contest. It nearly made the cut for the finals, but not quite. I think it w...

I didn't make the finals - I don't know where I was out of the hundred or so games they took.  A good experience the first time arou...

This month's Game Design Showdown  over at BGDF is huge - 37 entries! I think the biggest one I've ever seen is twelve or so. I'...

Reader Wordman (a Shadowrun compadre from many years ago in college) directed me to the Thousand Year Game Design Challenge  being run by Da...

So, word from the Ion Award competition at SaltCON now is that they've thrown Diggity out of the contest because it's published.  Wh...

It got quiet around here towards the end of the year as my semester ended and we traveled to see family.  Then the new semester began with a...

This is an interesting game - neat graphics, and fun mechanics. It runs in semi-advanced javascript, so you'll need a newer browser. My...

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 ...