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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

An audio blast from the past - a design chat about All For One

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Back in... I want to say 2007 [ edit: turns out it was may 2005! ] , I thought it would be cool to do a podcast about game design. At the ti...

Increasing the 'scope (Q&A session on Periscope - 9/21/15)

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Edit: Apparently I had the video set to "private" (heh, worked for me *shrug*). I believe it should work now. Earlier this year...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Kings of Air and Steam: World's Fair

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A few years ago I did a lot of development work on a game called Kings of Air and Steam , by Scott Almes. Kings of Air and Steam From th...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Odysseus is closing in on Ithaca!

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I posted about a recent 5p test with my newfound playtest group , and since then I've gotten Winds of Fate to the table twice: with 4 pl...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Suburban Sprawl Submitted (Greater Than Games / Dice Hate Me Dexterity Challenge)!

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Recently I posted about the Dexterity Challenge being put on by Greater Than Games / Dice Hate Me Games. In short, I had an idea for a dext...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Odysseus: Winds of Fate - 5p playtest with recent changes

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Last night I had some players over to playtest - and I think these players are down to become a regular playtest group! I'm really excit...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Now Boarding - revisited

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Two years ago I posted the rules to a game that Tim Fowers and I designed at Game Design Attack #1 : Now Boarding. Now Boarding is a coop...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Winds of Update...

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I've been meaning to make a Winds of Fate update, so I figured I'd post here so I don't forget by the time I get around to it....
Monday, July 20, 2015

Eminent Domain: Oblivion - a few more playtest thoughts

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Yesterday at the RinCon Fundraiser game day I played two 3p games of Oblivion with John and Garrett. It was nice to see how the Agendas work...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Run a game at RinCon

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As you may (or may not) know, I am sort of in charge of RinCon , a local gaming convention here in Tucson, AZ. RinCon is a 3 day conventi...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The List - July 2015

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GenCon is coming up in two weeks, so it's probably a good time to revisit The List and take stock of my designs and prototypes. It'...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Eminent Domain: Oblivion progress

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By way of update: I have had the opportunity to play about a game and a half of EmDo with the new Oblivion stuff, and so far it's work...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Down with Autoplay audio and video content!

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A decade ago, the internet was less sophisticated than it is now. At least, with respect to presentation. Sites like MySpace would auto play...
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Last call for Exotica/Battlecruisers Kickstarter!

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We're into the final hour of the kickstarter project for Exotica and Battlecruisers , and as of this writing we've raised $109,205! ...
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Dexterity / City Building

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I saw an image on twitter of a city building game someone (someone named Steve Caires) is making, and it looked kinda like the cards had bee...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Eminent Domain Origins: Terra Prime

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Those following this blog may recall my first published game: Terra Prime . You may also recall the production issues that plagued the prin...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Eminent Domain: Oblivion - prototyping

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I've been doing some prototyping this week - in addition to updating all my Alter Ego files, I've finally gotten to work putting to...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Alter Ego rules and PnP files

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I have just finished updating my prototype files for Alter Ego, as well as the rules, and they are in good shape for anyone who would like t...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Winds of Fate playtest 6/20/15

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6/20/15: 5 player test of Odysseus: Winds of Fate I had a nice, successful playtest day at a local store the other day, getting in 2 games...

Alter Ego: playtests and progress

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This weekend I got in several good playtests of Alter Ego! All 3p games, but importantly, one group played the game twice back to back, some...
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