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I'll be on Reddit for an AMA between now and 11:00am MST . Yokohama is blowing up on Kickstarter , but it ends tonight! If you've ...

  About a year ago Eminent Domain was featured on Reddit as " game of the week ", and I answered a bunch of questions there.   I...

I've got a lot of big life changes coming up, the most immediate of which is that I'm buying a house. It's a nice, big house wit...

The last time I posted about Deities & Demigods I mentioned that Hades didn't make the cut ... at least not for the base game. I in...

I'm not big into promoting other people's kickstarters, and as such I don't ask people to promote the projects I'm involved ...

For a while now there was some question as to whether Hades has been pulling his weight. It's been a bit of a struggle to keep him relev...

I just tweeted about Deities & Demigods with a link to this blog tag, so it seems prudent to post a quick update on the latest few plays...

LONDON I just returned from a 12 day trip to Europe. An old online friend, Sebastian Bleasdale , got married in London, and he was kind en...

A whole month ago at Game Design Attack #4 I had a test play of Deities & Demigods . I posted some notes after that play and updated m...

 I learned a word a few years ago from a friend of mine -- a word that I don't use nearly enough. Not that it's a common word that w...

A while ago I made something for Eminent Domain that I referred to as Emperor Avatars . These were tiles that players would draft during se...

We have something which I think is an underutilized resource... it's the Tasty Testers Guild (number 1976) over at BoardGameGeek. In ...

With UnPub 6 coming up this weekend, the State Of Games podcast this week was all about tips for playtesters. It's a good li...

Things go wrong in playtests all the time. When something goes wrong in a playtest, it may just be an anomaly of that particular game -- but...

I've been happy with the structure and most of the rules for Deities and Demigods, but there have been some issues with it. By and large...

I played Rock & Roll at Game Design Attack #4 this weekend, and Tim had a really neat idea of a slightly different sort of structure, m...

Over the last few years, I've hosted a game design retreat here in Tucson which I call Game Design Attack : This year Tim Fowers a...

I played a 4p game of Eminent Domain: Oblivion today. If you've only just happened upon this blog, or if you've been living under a...

I've heard of a number of Mars themed games coming out soon, and I've even heard of a few other Mars themed prototypes in the design...

I got some really nice comments on my last post about Oblivion , but the game has been on the back burner ever since. But I did bring it wit...