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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Moctezuma revisited

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Every once in a while I review The List and spare a moment's thought for designs that have been sitting on the back burner, some for fa...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Deities & Demigods: Due Diligence

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Looking at the title of this post, it kinda reads like an expansion to the communal deck learning game I've been working on... No such...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Yokohama rules PDF (retail and deluxe versions)

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If you're reading this you are probably aware that I work with/for TMG. In that capacity, I was in charge of revising the English rules ...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Essen interview with Würfel Reviews - role of the developer, among other things

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One of the things I enjoyed most at Essen this year was an in-depth interview I did with Würfel Reviews about the role of the developer, a...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Deities & Demigods playtests at Essen 2016!

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I managed to get not 1, not 2, but 3 whole playtests of D&D in at Essen 2016! Well, 2.8 at least... First off, I went to Motel One on ...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Essen 2016!

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As I sit here, in a SUBWAY Cafe in Atlanta International airport, entering the 2nd hour of 6 hour layover waiting to board a plane to Dussel...

Deities & Demigods update

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I haven't been posting as often lately, nor have I gotten in as many playtests of Deities & Demigods as I'd like (though apparen...
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Friday, October 07, 2016

Eminent Domain: Still good!

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Last weekend was RinCon, and I'll probably write a separate blog post about that. This post is about one thing I did at RinCon... Old ...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

General update to The List

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About a year ago I revisited The List to take stock of the status of my game projects. I thought it might be nice to update that list a lit...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

No fun blog post title, just a Board Games Insider interview, and some fancy art for Crusaders.

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 A couple of weeks ago I recorded a quick interview with Ignacy Trzewik for Board Games Insider's new special interview episode ...
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Thursday, September 01, 2016

Revisiting a classic post: Balancing Game Elements

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I've been working on Harvest lately, an upcoming TMG title in the Harbour universe (side note: watch for Harbour on TableTop with Wil ...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Deities & Demigods update

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last time I listed some tweaks I'd made but hadn't necessarily tried yet. I'll revisit those here, and then explain the further ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Quick AMA on Reddit! Yokohama Deluxe and other stuff...

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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 ...

Old news... a comment on Reddit about Eminent Domain (and a little Under The Hood about EmDo)

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  About a year ago Eminent Domain was featured on Reddit as " game of the week ", and I answered a bunch of questions there.   I...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Big life changes! New house, and games for sale.

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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...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Deities & Demigods: It's been a while... I've made some tweaks but haven't tested them yet.

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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...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Shameless promotion - a couple of non-TMG kickstarters (plus Yokohama Deluxe!)

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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 ...
Monday, June 13, 2016

R.I.P. Hades?

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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...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Deities & Demigods -- quick update

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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...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

London, Paris, Deities, Demigods, Stained Glass, and Rock & Roll

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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...
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