Category: Board games

How I got to 1000 Twitter followers

1000 followers isn’t really that many but I consider it a milestone because we humans use a place-value number system and a base-10 counting system, probably because we’ve got 10 fingers.  So even though I’ve got over 1100 followers as of this writing, getting to 1000 was more important to me.  There are a good …

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Steps To Publishing a Game – Part 1

For where we’re at as a publishing company, it’s important to break down the activity of making a game down to the small activities that build up to the total, and I’m going to share my thinking in this post.  Being both the designer and publisher in my case, it can be hard to separate …

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Cage Match! The MMA Fight Game is here!

Hello!  No matter where you are in this blog’s history, thanks for coming by.  Did you hear about our new game coming out on Amazon in November?  Cage Match! The MMA Fight Game is in my hand, right now, off the production line, with shrink wrap and everything! It rocks.  It papers.  It scissors.  It’s …

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Developing Cage Match: Lessons learned

Cage Match! The MMA Fight Game will be in publication in November of this year!  Sign up for our newsletter and we’ll let you know when it’s available on Amazon!  Or visit the game page! I’m not proud to say that the genesis of this game took place a full 2 years ago, and this …

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Board Game Design Diary: Restrictions are good

If you’re interested in the Cage Match! game we’ve developed, or board game design in general, then be sure to sign up for our newsletter! What I’ve really learned is about the nature of restriction.  What if there were no lines on the road, no boundaries and everyone could just drive in whatever direction they …

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The Games of Gen Con 2019

So for all of the things I love about Gen Con, after the general camaraderie and spirit of it, what I love most is just playing games, games, games.  I played so many that it went by in a blur, and if I did’t take a picture then I pretty much forget about it, so …

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WIP Decks for General Kenobi and Dark Anakin are up

Typically I put thoughts together on my own and let them marinate for a while before they kind of coalesce into an interesting design, and do that before I publish anything.  In this case, though, I want to let anyone interested in on the thought process, and give a chance to shape the decks along …

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