Risk battles, thoroughly quantified.   Takeaway:  Even for evenly matched armies, the attacker gets more likely to win the more each side ...

New jumbo card template (from TGC site) TheGameCrafter.com announces a new big card size (they call them Jumbo cards).  At 3.5" b...

Wordy in mid-game - bonus points for anyone who can tell me the last word... I spent a chunk of December working on a JavaScript-based ...

There's a post from Mike Lee at Panda Game Manufacturing  over at the Tasty Minstrel Games blog which goes through the steps of getting...

TGC Hex card template TheGameCrafter.com is now offering  hex cards and square cards. The hexes are 3.5" the short way, 3.75"...

Chris Norwood over at GamerChris  has a detailed takedown of a project he recently supported via Kickstarter.  The details are in his post,...

TheGameCrafter.com medium box (from TGC site) TheGameCrafter.com adds another box size .  This is a bit bigger (and heftier) than their...

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...