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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Alter Ego Revamp

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I think I've made the decision to move forward with Alter Ego as a cooperative game, despite the fact that Midnight Men is in the work...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

PDF problem fixed!

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I had been experiencing some technical difficulties with my computer recently. In an effort to clean it up and make it work better, I moved ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Spring Spielbany 2011

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4 years ago I attended the Spielbany game design meetup and got a chance to see and play a number of prototypes as well as meet in person ...
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Friday, April 08, 2011

Eminent Domain: Exotic Expansion - take 2

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I updated my EmDo prototype as discussed , and Michael played it 6 times with John tonight. I don't think John has grokked the game with...
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Thursday, April 07, 2011

Eminent Domain: Exotic Expansion

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Eminent Domain: Exotic Expansion I mentioned recently that I was working on the first full expansion to Eminent Domain. For ease of commun...
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Alter Ego - beaten to the punch?

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It appears one of the Game Artisans of Canada has sold a coop superhero deck building game to a (as yet undisclosed) publisher. This is good...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Alter Ego - should it be a cooperative game?

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A few people have suggested, presumably based on the theme, that Alter Ego might ought to be a cooperative game. A team of superheroes defen...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Alter Ego - doubts on structure

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I've been concentrating on the idea of needing to neglect your Alter Ego life in order to become stronger as a hero in order to win the ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Dice Werx and Alter Ego updates

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I have been working on three things in the last week or so: Eminent Domain Expansion: Exotic planets The FIRST EmDo expansion will be the ...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Deckbuilding Discourse

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What with Eminent Domain coming out soon, and a rash of other deck building games popping up left and right, I've been doing a lot of th...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Alter Ego deck building - what a difference a day makes

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OK, that title is unnecessarily dramatic, and probably misleading. I just mean that it has been 1 day, and this morning I did get a chance t...
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Alter Ego - new form factor

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The other night Mike and I were at dinner discussing what it might take to come up with another deck building game, one on par with Ascensio...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Creative Writing - Steampunk

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I'm working on a project that I'm finding very fun. That project is a little different than things I've done, but not so differe...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

The Dice Game Cometh

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Mike, enamored with the success of Zombie Dice for Steve Jackson Games, thought Tasty Minstrel might ought to look for a simple dice game. ...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

What's new?

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It's been about a month since I've posted anything. So what's new? Eminent Domain The art for Eminent Domain is about done. G...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Money Auction in Liar's Dice game

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Talking about this game idea with Andy Van Zandt, here's a way that might be more elegant than adding money to the game... After each ...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Time travel... revisited (ha ha)

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I watched a LOT of Dr Who over the holiday season - I haven't ever really seen that show before. And that's kind of weird because I...
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