Cumbersome

About a month ago I posted about a game mechanism that could have some potential... Worker Learning , a worker placement game where your wor...

A little bit of history Orleans is a game by Reiner Stockhausen that debuted at Essen in 2014. Soon after, TMG partnered with DLP (Rein...

You've probably seen AMA threads (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit and elsewhere, where someone will make themselves available for a day to an...

In a comment on a recent post, my friend Thomas asked exactly what I meant by "Deck Learning". "Deck Learning" is the t...

I've mentioned before that I'd like to do something more with the deck learning mechanism, and that has led to a few ideas... some...

It's been 4 months or so since I revisited  The List  to take stock of the status of my game projects. Here's another update... Pu...

Some time ago (over 3 years!) I posted some thoughts on Mechanics-First vs Theme-First design , as well as an idea I'd had that was a me...

To be honest, I don't spend much time on Reddit. I find it somewhat not-user-friendly, and at times abrasive, and I just haven't com...

Last Saturday I was able to get in not one, but two 3 player tests of Moctezuma's Revenge! One of the main things that has kept thi...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...