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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Doctor Esker's Notebook mentioned on The Cubist

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Eric from The Cubist Podcast (Episode #103) reviewed Doctor Esker's Notebook - very cool. His comments on the game run from about the tw...

Dr. Esker's Notebook sales and revenue update

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I'm nearing the end of my fourth week of Dr. Esker sales. After an initial bunch of sales to friends and acquaintances, I'm starting...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Another positive review for Doctor Esker's Notebook

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I got another positive review for the game here: Board Game Capital Doctor Esker's Notebook Review It sounds like they got stuck pre...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sources of orders

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I've been selling Doctor Esker's Notebook for a couple of weeks now. I've paid for a little advertising on Facebook and Google,...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Woohoo!

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This is cool... Just played an awesome puzzle game, Doctor Esker's Notebook from Plankton Games . Full review to come soon. You can ...

On the efficacy of Facebook ads

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Here are the results from my ad campaign. It ran for about ten days. So, did it work? Well, assuming Facebook isn't just making...

Fixing errors

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Here's what fixing a printing error looks like. This is four cases of 11 games each laid out with the eleven cards I needed to replace i...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Esker net revenue so far

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I'm going to add a graph here for folks interested in the business of self-publishing a game. I'll update this over the next year or...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Board Game Geek Listing for Dr. Esker's Notebook

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I got approved and listed on Boardgamegeek.com: Doctor Esker's Notebook on BGG Still waiting on approval for the game images, althou...

Videos for Doctor Esker's Notebook

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I've created two short videos showing the game. That was fun - lots of filming and editing and learning new software. The first vid...

Doctor Esker's Notebook: One week in

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OK, I've had a published game out there for one week. Yay! Here are some numbers: I started with 1080 copies; I've sold 24.  Afte...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Amazon product titles

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I visited Board Game Geek to see if they'd approved my listing request for Doctor Esker's Notebook , and I was excited to see an Ama...

Doctor Esker's Notebook - released now!

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I've got my new puzzle card game, Doctor Esker's Notebook , printed and ready to sell (well, I already sold the first copy). It...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Spider-Man for PS4

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Here's my nickel review of Spider-Man for PS4. My Spider-Man is seen here overlooking Washington Square Park, near where my son Nick goe...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Doctor Esker's Notebook is on the way to being real

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I just took a huge step on what's been a slow, twisty, often stalled journey toward publishing a game. I sent art for my puzzle card gam...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Esker card game quotes and pricing

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Getting some quotes back from manufacturers. A big variety in price points and discounts. The game is at a minimum 72 cards in a tuckbox, al...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

New Puzzle Game - Dr. Esker's Notebook

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I've been working on a new puzzle card game over the summer. It's modeled after an escape room experience, but based in a de...

Ludum Dare #41: Mortal Keybat

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I didn't post about this back when I wrote it, but I did an entry for Ludum Dare #41. The theme was "Combine Two Incompatible Ge...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Ludum Dare game - Tycoon

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I completed my fifth entry in the Ludum Dare game competition last weekend. I wasn't sure about how fun it was at first, but it seems to...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

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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...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Results over Four Ludum Dare competitions

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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...

Ludum Dare 37 - Domain

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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 ...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Aaaand we're back...

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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 ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Scoring Tracks

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Here's an interesting post by a fellow game designer (and one-time fellow improv comedian) Nick Bentley on scoring tracks in games.  ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Ludum Dare 26 Results

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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...

Ludum Dare 26 entry

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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...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

CraftyJS examples

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

Great post on publishing process

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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...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Les Miserables Report Card

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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 ...
Monday, December 3, 2012

Planetside 2, SOE, and fraudsters...

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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 ...
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