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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Knights Templar - new and improved. New title: Crusaders (Thy Will Be Done)

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CRUSADERS Thy Will Be Done I've been posting about my Knights Templar game lately, from the inaugural ride to the recent playtest a...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Knights Templar Rules v3.0 - significant tweaks!

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I just wanted to update the rules here, for my own benefit, for the Knights Templar Rond-cala game. With my new Rondel game  showing promise...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Odysseus: Winds of Fate - revived once again (Nov 2014)

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About this time last year I dusted off an old favorite... Odysseus: Winds of Fate . I had gotten some good feedback at BGGcon 2013, and I ha...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

"Leavin' on a jet plane - don't know when I'll be back again..." BGGcon 2014

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In a few minutes I'm heading out to the airport for my annual pilgrimage to Dallas for BGGcon. This is the 10th year they've held th...
Monday, November 17, 2014

"Appropriate vs Inappropriate Social Media Marketing," or "Right and Wrong Ways To Promote Your Kickstarter"

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(Comic courtesy of http://gapingvoid.com) I have a pet peeve about direct marketing... it's been triggered before, and I'm...
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Exhibit: first game in AGES!

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Today I attended a Raytheon Game Group picnic, where I was invited as a "guest of honor." We played a few games, ate some burgers....
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Deck Learning Rail Game

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Deck Learning Rail Game A deck Learning game for 2-4 players by Seth Jaffee I finally got a prototype together for the Deck Learning R...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Pony Express

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I've always thought The Pony Express would make a good game theme, but what kind of game? Presumably pickup/deliver or maybe some kind...

Knights Templar - playtest at Sasquatch

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I'm happy to report that I did get The Knights Templar played once at Sasquatch... a 4 player game with myself, Brian Frahm, Irwin Dol...
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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