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In an effort to put my best foot forward, I need to update the cards and board for All For One before sending it to Z-man. However, doing so...

I emailed Zev from Z-Man games to see if he'd like to look at All For One again (he played it once at one of the Spielbany meetups)... h...

I have been considering the ideas I posted back in April about the cash value of your time... and I have come up with what I think may be a...

I finally got around to prototyping the idea I had for the card game with the chess clock . I ended up making cards that each have one of 5 ...

All seems well. I tweaked the scoring to get some more separation in the Story tracks, but then had to inflate the Mission scoring as well. ...

I am trying some structural changes to All For One, which I alluded to in my last post. I've played about 4 games with them so far, twea...

While playing All For One today I started to re-examine some of the rules and it occurred to me that the game could be streamlined and made...

As yet I have not lost a face-to-face game of Yspahan ... that is, until last night. I haven't played as much Yspahan as I have Pillars ...

There's a board game called Pillars of the Earth , based on a novel by Ken Follet. It's an efficiency game where each player gathers...

There's always been a concern that a competitive player might maliciously drop all tokens off any character they activate to keep other ...

I have this movement mechanic, and I wonder what kind of game it would go well in. The point is that the board would have some topography, l...

I attended Spielbany , a meeting of game designers from the Board Game Designers Forum , last weekend and I managed to get some playtesting ...

Another playtest meeting occurred last Sunday. It was very interesting in that I implemented the new version of All For One ! It seemed to w...

It's been a couple weeks since my last post, and I still haven't gotten to some of the things I said I'd post about... like thos...

Spatial Delivery general thoughts and comments I was happy to get the chance to play Spatial Delivery, a prototype by Rick Holzgrafe, at Kub...

I was chatting with Sebastian about what he thought was wrong with A41 (the ID version). What he mentioned was similar to the negative comme...

I went to KublaCon last weekend, and I'm in the process of writing up various reports and thoughts on stuff I saw and did there, and peo...

This weekend saw another 2 playtests of Terra Prime, incorporating some of the changes discussed in the last post... Aliens : I had decided ...

I got yet another test game of Terra Prime in yesterday, incorporating some of the ideas from the last post. Most notably the reduced score ...

Last post I mentioned some changes I thought would be good for the game. I implemented them and made all the necessary adjustments to the pr...