Cumbersome

Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

New Crusaders factions?

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I don't think I've posted about the extra player expansions for Crusaders, but art is done for them, and they're ready to be pri...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Revisiting old titles -- Reading Railroad and Exhibit playtests

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Every once in a while I review The List and take stock of my active, back-burnered, and abandoned game projects. Early this year, in an eff...
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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Jaffee Realms comments and questions from a player

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A reader tried out Jaffee Realms , my custom mod for Jamey Stegmaier's Rolling Realms roll & write game, and left me some comments ...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Prototypes out of the woodwork and onto Tabletop Simulator

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I've spent a few hours recently modding some of my prototypes on Tabletop Simulator (is that how you say that?). Some of them are older ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Don't kill the messenger! A game about the post-funding KS process?

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TMG in in the process of manufacturing and fulfilling 5 different Kickstarter projects right now. They are delayed, some much more than usua...
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Saturday, June 06, 2020

Recent gaming, online edition

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I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss face to face gaming - even though I haven't been doing nearly as much of it these last few ...
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Friday, May 15, 2020

Tabletop Simulator, digital prototypes, and online playtesting

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A Virtual Tabletop Tabletop Simulator is a virtual tabletop with working, realistic physics, which exists to facilitate tabletop gaming ov...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Free Roll & Writes for Quarantine-time (including a custom mod of one by yours truly)

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These are crazy times we live in. Almost everyone's life has been flipped, turned upside down by a zombie apocalypse. Seriously, COVID-1...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Modular vs Integrated expansions

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Having recently done an expansion for Crusaders, and having done 3 expansions for Eminent Domain and one for Isle of Trains as well, I have ...
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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Apotheosis - recent challenges and possible solutions

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I have been testing Apotheosis quite a bit lately, and on a coarse grained scale, I think it's going pretty well. The structure of the g...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Making steps forward ("killing your darlings")

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In a few of my games I have started with a specific mechanism or idea that, over the course of the game, has had to drop out, or change sign...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The List - January 2020

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Last month I reviewed  The List , but I think I have enough of an update that it's worth taking another look. I'm adding a new secti...
Friday, January 17, 2020

2018-2019: a playtesting retrospective

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Back in late 2017 I started formally tracking my weekly playtest sessions in a google doc. One up-side of this is that I can go back now and...
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