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Friday, May 6, 2022

Temporary Plankton Games site outage - shifting hosting

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 Hi, all -  I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but the Plankton Games site will go down sometime this week for a few days while I switch h...

New Ludum Dare game: Kharon's Twilight

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 Hi, folks - I took part in Ludum Dare 50 a little bit ago, and I was able to complete a whole game in 48 hours. The theme was "Delayin...
Monday, October 4, 2021

Fun with Commie Mutant Horses

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 I took part in the 49th Ludum Dare Compo this past weekend and made a computer game from scratch in 48 hours. Really, in about 46 hours, be...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

A positive review for Doctor Esker's Notebook!

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Doctor Esker's Notebook getting some love on Amazon!
Saturday, November 28, 2020

New shipment of Doctor Esker's Notebook arrived

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A new shipment of Doctor Esker's Notebook arrived from India today. 4,320 games in the third printing. 12 boxes, about 40 lbs each. They...

Update to finances of Doctor Esker's Notebook project

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I haven't done a business update for Doctor Esker's Notebook recently, so here goes. Last month, I ordered a 3rd printing for the ga...

Fan Tan!

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My family has often played a very simple, silly game at family gatherings. We call it 'fan tan,' although it's clear that has a ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Flames Over Frosthelm is Free!

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For the next five days, August 12 to 16, the ebook version of Flames Over Frosthelm is free on Amazon. Click here to grab a copy, or share ...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

The Outcast Crown

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I just released my second novel, The Outcast Crown . It's set in the same world as my earlier books, and it follows the events of my fi...
Monday, April 6, 2020

New puzzle game - Doctor Esker's Triad

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As I've been stuck at home over the last few weeks, I dived into a puzzle game project. It's called Doctor Esker's Triad (co-bra...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

97 Klotho

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I finished up a recent game design with some testing over the holidays. I got it worked up for The Game Crafter's Roll-And-Write contest...

Interview at People Behind the Meeples

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I got interviewed! Pretty neat. Thanks to George for providing the neat series of interviews with designers. https://gjjgames.blogspot.c...
Friday, January 3, 2020

Doctor Esker's Notebook Project - by the numbers

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I did a workup of the finances and sales I've had for the Doctor Esker's Notebook project. I figure this might be of interest to oth...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Esker in Hungary!

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I noticed I had a review of Doctor Esker's Notebook in a Hungarian blog - very cool! Sounds like they liked it, if Google Translate can ...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Some people suck

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Guy buys original puzzle game, returns it three weeks later, presumably after playing and enjoying. Then he buys the sequel, returns it th...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Finances update

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I haven't done a financial update in a while. Here's how it looks. Graph #1 is my total revenues stacked on top of my total expenses...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Son of Doctor Esker's Notebook is now officially available

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Son of Doctor Esker's Notebook is now officially available for purchase on my site! Yay. Here's the purchase page . I added a specia...

Son of Esker is here!

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Son of Doctor Esker's Notebook, plus the second printing of the original Doctor Esker's Notebook, are here stateside! It will take m...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Son of Doctor Esker's Notebook is nearly on the way to the U.S.!

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I've received word that the sequel to Doctor Esker's Notebook is about to ship. It should get here in about a week plus some time to...

SAHMReviews takes on Dr. Esker's Notebook

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Here's a new review (mostly spoiler free) for Doctor Esker's Notebook by Scott at SAHMReviews.com. They're running a giveaway...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Doctor Esker goes to school!

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The Hungry Gamer posted a picture of Doctor Esker's Notebook being used in a school setting. That's so cool! So happy to see this. ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Doctor Esker's Notebook review at Everything Board Games

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A great review of Doctor Esker's Notebook over at Everything Board Games! EverythingBoardGames.com review
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Off a cliff (not really)

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Well, my profitability graph went off a cliff. Why? Because I paid for two new things last week. Thing One was a second printing of Doct...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

New Review of Doctor Esker's Notebook by Board Game Gumbo

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The folks at Board Game Gumbo reviewed Doctor Esker's Notebook, and they had fun with it. See here for their review: Board Game Gumbo ...

RoomEscapeArtist review of Doctor Esker's Notebook

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Here's a really thorough review of Doctor Esker's Notebook. They say it's "a brilliant puzzle game with a clever answer mec...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Four Tribes Review

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I've been enjoying a game I bought recently. It's from fellow indie designer Jason Glover at Grey Gnome Games over the last couple ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Diggity from Sugar Dice

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I have no idea what they're saying, but it's really neat to see people in another country enjoying (I hope) my game.
Saturday, July 20, 2019

It's nice to write to creators

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I got two emails today that made me feel good about this project. One was from a person asking if she could get the completion stickers I ma...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Sequel is at the printer

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I've got the art submitted to the printer, both for a reprint of Doctor Esker's Notebook , and for the sequel. Very exciting! Waitin...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Great review from G33K-HQ!

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I got a terrific review from G33K-HQ for Doctor Esker's Notebook . Here's a link to the review: G33K-HQ Review Sounds like they ...
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