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Deities & Demigods There are 33 playtests recorded in my Deities & Demigods record sheet google doc. This covers several iteratio...

A few different times in the past, Hera has played a role in Deities & Demigods -- usually, in one way or another, controlling which dei...

Had a nice 4p test tonight with Matthew, Andy, and Ian. I implemented some of the tweaks from yesterday's post - start player must chang...

I played Deities and Demigods tonight at UK Games Expo... I haven't played it since Jan 22 at AZ Game Fair. I've been thinking for...

I've gotten a couple of tests of Joan of Arc: Maid of Orleans in here and there, mostly 3 player and a couple of 2 player games. I'v...

Well, I've thought about this some more, made up a reference/score sheet, played some solo and 3p games, and made some adjustments and t...

Our friend James Matthe over at Minion games has published a number of games, including a few that I really like, such as Grave Business , b...

A few months ago I made a Casual Q&A blog post , inviting people to ask questions that I could answer, like an AMA, but not confined to ...

I've been thinking about that dice worker placement mechanism some more lately. The biggest problem I have when I start with a mechanis...

Prototype updated! * All starting tiles have 1 coin on the back (3 of them also have a weapon). * 1 starting tile has "cull 1 tile fr...

For anyone interested and paying attention, I had a great playtest today. 3 players (Stacie, Fiki, and Hilary) gave the game a shot. This i...

About a month ago I posted about a game mechanism that could have some potential... Worker Learning , a worker placement game where your wor...

A little bit of history Orleans is a game by Reiner Stockhausen that debuted at Essen in 2014. Soon after, TMG partnered with DLP (Rein...

You've probably seen AMA threads (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit and elsewhere, where someone will make themselves available for a day to an...

In a comment on a recent post, my friend Thomas asked exactly what I meant by "Deck Learning". "Deck Learning" is the t...

I've mentioned before that I'd like to do something more with the deck learning mechanism, and that has led to a few ideas... some...

It's been 4 months or so since I revisited  The List  to take stock of the status of my game projects. Here's another update... Pu...

Some time ago (over 3 years!) I posted some thoughts on Mechanics-First vs Theme-First design , as well as an idea I'd had that was a me...