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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

A game design blog by Seth Jaffee, Head of Development at TMG.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time - it's tricky!

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Yesterday a thought came to mind about trick taking games. To start with, I HATE trick taking games. I just don't think they're fun ...
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Eminent Domain: Expansion thoughts (and Prestige Planets)

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I had already been thinking along the lines of something I'd like to try for Eminent Domain. I think the game works nicely and is solid ...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Eminent Domain Kickstarter Progress

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I found out about Kickstarter on July 20th, and have been suggesting that we utilize it to fund Eminent Domain (or some other game) ever si...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

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Well folks, it's a go! The Kickstarter fundraising campaign for my latest game, Eminent Domain , has begun! It will run for 30 days. ...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Eminent Domain: A 3rd party review!

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Tasty Minstrel fan and Eminent Domain playtest volunteer Tom Gurganus has posted a review of Eminent Domain on his blog! Tom has been playi...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Eminent Domain: Rules and Kickstart

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I have posted the rules for Eminent Domain on Tasty Minstrel's website. Of course they're not all done up nice by an artist yet, bu...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Kickstarting Kickstarter

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There's a website called Kickstarter.com which helps people raise funding for creative projects. I've been wanting to utilize that ...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Eminent Domain facelift and new techs

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Because I still like the name Eminent Domain, I thought I'd try one more thing before giving up on it. I have better defined the themeat...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Eminent Domain: Name again

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My dad suggested perhaps just "Eminence" for the name. Thoughts on that?
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Eminent Domain: Naming the Technologies

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There are 15 Technology cards that will need names. I'll list them here, and if you can think of anything that sounds accurate, awesome ...
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Eminent Domain notes

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This is for my own reference: - Change "Metallic" to "Mining" - Change "Colonize" and "Settle" t...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

RinCon 2010 recap

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As has been mentioned, last weekend was RinCon 2010 - "Arizona's Gaming Mecca." RinCon started 3 years ago, and about doubled ...
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A little love for Terra Prime :)

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At RinCon last weekend, a member of the RTEAM Gamers (Bill Andel) ran a game of Terra Prime . I walked by during the game and people seeme...

Eminent Domain: Politics alternatives?

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One thing I'm still a little worried about for Eminent Domain is game length and game end conditions. The last thing I want to happen is...
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Friday, October 08, 2010

Eminent Domain - Level 3 technologies

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The current level 3 technologies are as follows: Metallic: Play an additional Action during your action phase I think this one's cool...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Sales and popularity of Terra Prime

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After an slow start to begin with, owing largely I think to rumors of poor production, and not helped by rumors of "luck" due to t...
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Video Review of Homesteaders

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Tom Vasel, the worlds most prolific video reviewer of board games, has posted his review of Homesteaders . And he liked it! Go take a look.
Saturday, October 02, 2010

2010 Golden Geek Nominees... Homesteaders!

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The 2010 Golden Geek nominees have been posted at BoardGameGeek.com , and Homesteaders has been nominated in the Strategy Game category! ...

More, bigger games to playtest!

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Last week I had a Tasty Minstrel Submission Testing night , and I tested a number of smallish card games. Fortunately I did get a chance to ...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Winds of Fate updates

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After a nice (3 hour!) chat with Michael Keller about Winds of Fate (admittedly, much of that was describing the game to him over IM), I...
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