I figured I'd try my hand at the Ludum Dare game competition, which I learned about earlier this year. The goal is to produce an entir...

For any of you game programmers out there, here's a sound effects generator called SFXR that is very simple but cool - I often start ma...

Some good-sounding advice from Corey Young  here , guest writing at Hyperbole Games.  I've never tried to pitch a game to a publisher at...

Great post over at BGG by a Nathan McNair, an aspiring Kickstarter self-publisher at Pandasaurus Games , who points out that even with Kick...

I have added two of my recent projects to the Plankton Games website - see: Warped: http://planktongames.com/warped.php Horde: http:/...

Got my new version of Diggity, with art from Joshua Bennett, up on TheGameCrafter.com.  The new art looks slick (see it here ); my old art...

Cartrunk.net is a game design website run by John Moller. I heard of it through coverage of a convention of sorts they run for unpublished ...

A good, thoughtful article on Kickstarter  funding (actually, the second half of a longer good thoughtful article - read Part I  too) from C...

Some good advice here from a reviewer - somebody who likely reads a good many more rules documents than your typical game designer.

In my last post , I mentioned my newest game project, tentatively called Horde.  The original submission was for a contest entry at BGDF and...

So, I entered a game in the newly-shrunken monthly BGDF design showdown in January .  I got second in the voting. I'll put up a few pos...

Image from the Game Salute site. SBBQR?  Here's a game-production Kickstarter campaign for a game about recreating the Roman empire...

Mini cards (2.5"x1.75") now available at TheGameCrafter.com - this is a big deal; those could be super-useful for not only card...

BGG Ratings counts as of 2007, by BGG member Joe Grundy My last post , which discussed BGG ratings of a few games, got me wondering what...

The folks at the Opinionated Gamer visit several past themes on the value of Kickstarter to designers, publishers, and players.  It was int...

The Gamer's Table , a boardgame review site, has started what is to become a series on independent games.  For their first episode, they...

This is a good article, with lots of advice I should take to heart but don't always.

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...