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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

One of those "Aha!" moments...

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This morning I had one of those infamous and elusive "AHA!" moments. It's a small idea for a game, but it feels like a big ste...
Monday, October 14, 2013

If you build it, they will come. And if they come back, you'll have to rebuild it...

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I've been complaining all week on Twitter, FaceBook, and I.R.L. (is that still a thing?) that my house was robbed ( again ), and this ti...
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Michael Keller Double Feature funded - Captains of Industry and City Hall going to print! So what's next?

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Last month I mentioned that we were running a Kickastarter for two games by designer Michael Keller: City Hall and Captains of Industry. Th...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Captains of Industry / City Hall - Keller Double Feature

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Captains of Industry / City Hall - Keller Double Feature  The other day TMG launched a new Kickstarter project for 2 upcoming titles: C...

Strategicon recap

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Just a quick recap, for those interested in what I did at Strategicon. In no particular order: Special Guest Vlaada Chavtil I always like...
Friday, August 30, 2013

T - minus 3 hours... headed to Strategicon!

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I don't know how or why this happens, but as usual I'm awake mere hours before I have to get up and leave for a convention. This tim...
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Holy GenCon, Batman!

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A little thing called Gen Con happened last week, and I thought maybe people would like to hear about my experience - nay, my adventure in...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Now Boarding - The Board Game: A cooperative, real time airport rush for 3-4 players

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Now Boarding - The Board Game A cooperative, real time airport rush for 3-4 players In Now Boarding, 3-4 players will control airport hu...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

Game Design Retreat

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This weekend I did something new and cool. It's something that's crossed my mind before, and in some ways it's similar to Protos...
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Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Eminent Domain - getting ahead of myself (Political Expansion thoughts)

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Last night I met with Mike Watne, a big fan of EmDo who did a lot of playtesting of Escalation for me. At this point he's pretty much ...
Monday, June 24, 2013

City Hall avatars!

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The Kickstarter for City Hall will only be running through Friday, and we've got a ways to go before we fund. Here's a heartfelt v...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Beyond EmDo

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I played Eminent Domain again yesterday - teaching some new players. I continue to be very pleased with how that game turned out! I'm e...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

City Hall - now by TMG - back on Kickstarter!

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Last November I posted about a game called City Hall , by Michael Keller. I had a chance to play it at BGG.con while it was on Kickstarter a...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Recent Gaming

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What have you been playing lately? Here's what's been hitting my table: Tzolk'in: the Mayan Calendar After playing Tzolk...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

What is Game Content worth?

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I came across this excellent post on Jamey Stegmaier's blog from 2 months ago (at the end of the Dungeon roll kickstarter project), and...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Belfort: The Expansion Expansion

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As you may already know, TMG is finally coming out with the first full expansion to Belfort . The expansion features Assistants and Expansio...
Friday, April 05, 2013

Great Escalation overview on BGG

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A fan of Eminent Domain , Kenneth VenOsdel, has posted a fabulous overview of the Escalation expansion over on BGG . Thanks for posting th...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Eminent Domain: Escalation Kickstarter going great!

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I just wanted to mention how well the Kickstarter project for Eminent Domain: Escalation is going, and how excited that makes me. Some p...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Rincon Fundraiser a big success!

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Last Saturday we hosted a fundraising game day for Rincon. I was a little worried that not many people would show up, and that we wouldn...

EmDice: Playtester prototype pics, and an update

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One of you awesome people who has printed a copy of EmDice sent me some pics... Thanks for sending those! They included the file t...
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