In an earlier post today, I mentioned SuperiorPOD 's new distribution service, and I said I couldn't find much detail on what extra...

From a new e-mail I got this morning - SuperiorPOD is trying to bridge the gap between print-on-demand, direct sales (which TheGameCrafter a...

In response to this post , reader Wordman says the following: Grant's critique rings hollow to me. Not because his analysis is wrong,...

Really interesting critique/rant by Grant Rodiek about using Kickstarter for game projects over here at Exiled Here .  I've been aware o...

I'm guest-hosting the monthly Game Design Showdown over at Board Game Designers Forum . I required an ocean theme ('cause I'm a ...

I took some pictures of one of my current projects, Warped, which I entered in TheGameCrafter's vehicle design contest and which I...

Example new TGC board. Image from their post (linked above) See here.   These look as good as regular gameboards, and I assume the print...

I set up a Google+ page for Plankton Games .  Not sure what that's worth.  My Facebook Plankton Games page has never been visited by an...

Zounds!   It  works!  A hex overlay that will sit on top of other art.  Nice.  Now, if I were just a good enough artist to draw a top view...

A neat step-by-step tutorial for making a hex grid pattern in Illustrator .  I'm working on better art for my Zombie Ball game (and may...

From Kickstarter Funding by Days of the Week , Richard Bliss, Purple Pawn, 10/28/2011 Richard Bliss over at the Purple Pawn posted  some...

The contest I entered Warped! in is over, with results here . Short analysis - I didn't place in the top five, which is all the resul...

Really interesting article over at the Purple Pawn  about success people have had using Kickstarter.com  to fund boardgame startups.  I'...

Got my copy of Warped from TheGameCrafter.com , and it looks great, my crummy laptop camera notwithstanding.  Still waiting on the results...

My entry for the October GDS at BGDF.com  took second.  The entries are here - mine's #5.  I'm happy about that - the first place g...

Ten  entries in the BGDF challenge this month.  The theme and restriction has made several of them seemingly similar within a couple broad ...

Got my entry in, after sitting one out.  This one's requirements are the dead and a Mancala-style choosing mechanism.  We'll see how...

Vehicle Types They got 28 submissions over at TheGameCrafter.com for their vehicle design contest.  I looked through all of them quickl...

Wow.  SuperiorPOD is now doing full gameboards and printed set-up boxes, they announced on BGDF .  There's a bit of an arms race going...

My entry in TheGameCrafter's vehicle design contest is in, and just under the wire.  I haven't gotten a copy yet (although it's...

Here's a link  to the announcement from SuperiorPOD I commented on in my earlier post.

The game print-on-demand company SuperiorPOD has announced the ability to create card packs with random frequencies, such as would be requi...

Here's a sample play board (one of a 2x2 grid) for my new unnamed space game that I'm submitting for TheGameCrafter.com's vehicl...

I've been working on a design recently in which I am thinking of using a pretty standard style of dice-based combat resolution. I first ...

Michael Keller over at GameDesignerWannabe.com  has some notes from a GenCon seminar by a Hasbro executive named Mike Gray about writing eff...

Described here . The prizes are promotional points on TheGameCrafter.com 's site, which is interesting - you can get your game entry (or...

Really great playtesting advice from JT at TGC here. I've done most if it for Diggity. I do win nearly every game I play, which isn...

Diggity, near the elbow of the guy in the blue shirt and dashing facial hair. Diggity  made an appearance at Gen Con at TheGameCrafte...

I've played a couple games of Matt Worden's Jump Gate  now (and won zero of them).  It's a different game than I expected, but I...

I played Clue with the kids last night.  We didn't have this when I was a kid, so I never played it much growing up - only with frien...