Cumbersome

GenCon is coming up again, and it's been a while since I've taken a look at The List to take stock of my designs and prototypes. Le...

The Crusades were a thing that happened in history, and with them are associated myriad things -- not the least of which were atrocities com...

TMG has been seeing some success with our Deluxified (TM) line of games... Orleans Deluxe was (and still is) a big hit. Yokohama Deluxe ...

Yesterday I noticed 3 comments on my blog, and they were from a new reader. I love to see that people are reading what I write! I mostly do ...

Not much game design in the last week or so, as I've been on summer vacation... I spent the 4th of July in Dallas with Michelle's ...

Deities & Demigods There are 33 playtests recorded in my Deities & Demigods record sheet google doc. This covers several iteratio...

A few different times in the past, Hera has played a role in Deities & Demigods -- usually, in one way or another, controlling which dei...

Had a nice 4p test tonight with Matthew, Andy, and Ian. I implemented some of the tweaks from yesterday's post - start player must chang...

I played Deities and Demigods tonight at UK Games Expo... I haven't played it since Jan 22 at AZ Game Fair. I've been thinking for...

I've gotten a couple of tests of Joan of Arc: Maid of Orleans in here and there, mostly 3 player and a couple of 2 player games. I'v...

Well, I've thought about this some more, made up a reference/score sheet, played some solo and 3p games, and made some adjustments and t...

Our friend James Matthe over at Minion games has published a number of games, including a few that I really like, such as Grave Business , b...

A few months ago I made a Casual Q&A blog post , inviting people to ask questions that I could answer, like an AMA, but not confined to ...

I've been thinking about that dice worker placement mechanism some more lately. The biggest problem I have when I start with a mechanis...

Prototype updated! * All starting tiles have 1 coin on the back (3 of them also have a weapon). * 1 starting tile has "cull 1 tile fr...

For anyone interested and paying attention, I had a great playtest today. 3 players (Stacie, Fiki, and Hilary) gave the game a shot. This i...

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...