My first new boardgame design in a while is in production at TheGameCrafter.com . Very cool feeling!  It's a worker placement game set a...

I just got the ratings for my Ludum Dare competition game, Domain, written from scratch in 48 hours last month. They were good - this is th...

I competed in Ludum Dare #37 in December, where you create a game from scratch in 48 hours. This was a rough one - it came right at the end ...

Wow, it's been a long time. But I'm back, and let's kick the dust off this blog. I've been working this summer on a project ...

Here's an interesting post by a fellow game designer (and one-time fellow improv comedian) Nick Bentley on scoring tracks in games.  ...

Here are my results from the Ludum Dare competition this time around.  Not as good as the last time , but better than my first entry .  My a...

Here's my entry from Ludum Dare 26 .  The theme was Minimalism.  I went with a game set in a Piet Mondrian painting that only has one co...

I've been pretty excited about learning more about JavaScript and HTML5 programming.  I've been working with CraftyJS, a cool game...

I found this post by James Mathe from someone in the boardgame design community on Google+.  It's a really great summary of steps to pu...

Spoiler warning, if it's possible to spoil a 150-year-old book or a 30-year-old musical. Pretension warning: I never write like this ...

I played a little bit of Planetside 2 over the past week.  It's an interesting hybrid of MMO (but without quests) and FPS deathmatch ...

Yoggity is off on its way to Bochum, Germany for the Hippodice competition.  The game cost me $20; shipping was $30, and the entry fee was...

I just found out yesterday that the folks at Hippodice have requested Yoggity  for their second round.  That means I have to get a physica...

Via Tom Vasel at GameSalute, Gary Ray at Black Diamond Games has put up a pair of posts ( here and here ), where he says he's not goin...

OK, this isn't game related, but I just found a really great disk profiler.  I realized last night that my SSD is filling up on my main ...

I've entered two games in the Hippodice  competition this fall - Horde and Yoggity .  We'll see how I do - I've made the second ...

Voting results are in from the 24th Ludum Dare competition.  The theme was Evolution, and I made a puzzle game in which little critters gain...

From The Whitest Kids U'Know.  I think a few of my early designs might have shared this flaw.

Picture by Tony Mastrangeli, DarkJedi on Boardgamegeek.com The kids and I just played a game I'd had lying around the house for a lo...

I took part in the 24th Ludum Dare competition last weekend and produced a computer game in 48 hours (well, more like 15 hours - I had...

I'm waiting for the results of this month's BGDF Game Design Showdown , with the theme of Grow Up!   I haven't entered much in r...

FatherGeek's kids playing Diggity From FatherGeek.com I have to say, one of the neatest parts of the modern world is the ubiquity of...

Here's a post  from IrregularWebComic.net with some great principles of game design.  The beginning of the article goes into a historic...

A terrific review of Diggity by FatherGeek! FatherGeek looks at games from a family perspective, so that's why there's the mult...

I've submitted a few games to GameSalute , and they've given me some positive feedback.  I had a great talk with Dan Yarrington toda...

I've just finished writing the first draft of a novel - a project I've been working on off and on for seven years. Now that it'...

An interesting post on Kickstarter from Tao, the guy (?) running the game store Starlit Citadel, a Canadian hobby game store in Vancouver...

I've got the Diggity site updated including the newer art for the game.  Woo.

The web is ephemeral, and that isn't always great if you're trying to build a following for a game.  I've been trying to find a ...

The folks over at The Gamer's Table have been doing video reviews of games for some time, and this year they invited submissions of ind...