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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Knights Templar - inaugural ride

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I've posted before about my Knights Templar game, using a Rond-Cala mechanism sort of opposite the way Trajan works. I've had trou...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Essen 2014 - notes for next time

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I'll probably write up a bigger blog post about my exerience at Essen this year at some point, but in the meantime, I wanted to jot a fe...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

I'm leavin' on a jet plane... (cue music)

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In a minute I board my flight to Atlanta, where I'll meet up with Michael and Mischa from Team TMG for a connecting flight to Dusseldorf...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Eminent Domain: Microcosm - on Kickstarter through October 17th!

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Two months ago I presented Eminent Domain: Microcosm , inviting you to play the game with full art prototype copies at GenCon in the TMG dem...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Rincon T-Shirts!

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We've got a great artist who does our Rincon art for us, and I'm always getting compliments on our images. I have made some shirts...
Monday, September 29, 2014

EmDo 3rd expansion... what's in a name?

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I've been getting back into Exotica lately, soliciting outside playtesting to help finalize and wrap that expansion up. Pretty soon I...
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Friday, September 19, 2014

More Deck Learning?

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I've mentioned before that I've wanted to explore more uses of the Deck Learning mechanism from Eminent Domain, and I've had a ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Holy Stretch Goals, Batman! Bomb Squad blows up!

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Michael just released Update #4 for the Bomb Squad kickstarter project , announcing the new stretch goals plan. I'm sure everyonw will b...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

TMG Playtest Day! Kilauea lives, Mini Civ (not to be confused with MicroCiv), and Steam Works

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Today I had a great playtesting day! Russell, Talia, and Dave came over for about 7 hours and we played 3 prototypes. Each playtest went wel...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Strategicon: Gateway 2014

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About a week ago I went to Strategicon's Gateway event in Los Angeles, as I've one for the last 10 years or so. This time was a litt...
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Let's talk about some published games for a change!

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I tend to talk a lot about prototypes (such as Watch It Played , Mech Fight , Alter Ego , and Knights Templar ), and upcoming games (such as...
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The bombs are live and the clock is ticking!

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It's been a long time coming, but Bomb Squad is finally up on Kickstarter ! Bomb Squad is an intense, thematic cooperative game in whi...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Eminent Domain: Exotica -- Back in motion!

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With Eminent Domain: Microcosm all wrapped up (until next month, when we'll release a PnP version for players to try while a Kickstarte...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Aquasphere rules posted to BGG! Also, BGG is awesome!

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Aquasphere rules posted Just a quick note to let you know that you can find the web version (low res) of the final rules for Aquasphere (...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Presenting Eminent Domain: Microcosm

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Some of you reading this may actually follow my blog on occasion... and of those, some may have seen some posts I made on my attempt at a mi...
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Friday, August 08, 2014

Aquashere, Bomb Squad, and GenCon!

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AQUASPHERE Last month we ran a Quickstarter project for Stefan Feld's new game: Aquasphere . It was very successful, with 1,464 ba...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Storytelling games, revisited (a little)

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About 2 years ago I posted some thoughts on "role playing games" (more accurately "collaborative storytelling exercises"...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Aquasphere Quickstarter launches MONDAY 7/21!

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Here's the news... The Quickstarter project for Aquasphere will run 10 days: from 7/21 to 7/31. THAT'S THIS MONDAY! So watch your em...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Last call for Harbour!

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Harbour is in the final 24 hours on Kickstarter - last chance to get in on the action. For a mere $20 it's a pretty good deal. A bunch ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Watch It Played: the Card Game - Rules Post

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Rules last updated 8/7/14 This post will house the current game rules for Watch It Played: the Card Game. I will try and keep it up to dat...
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