Cumbersome

 A couple of years ago I posted a playtesting retrospective spanning late 2017 through the end of 2019, and I thought it as interesting to ...

Exploration tiles  I'm adding an exploration mechanism to one of my games, and iterating through a few variations on it has got me think...

 A while ago (gosh, I think it's been over a year now!) I was mentioning how enamored I was with a particular game mechanism. I had ment...

 Jamey Stegmaier sometimes posts interesting thoughts on his blog, and today he posed the question: " What Sci-Fi project would you pur...

 A couple of weeks ago I posted about updating the realms I'd made for Jamey Stegmaier's roll & write game, Rolling Realms. Wel...

 I apologize for again being a little cagey or cryptic about some of the details of Deities & Demigods getting signed. I'll just con...

I probably have a lot to say about the term "point salad," but as this is the first time I've ever sat down to talk about it, ...

Every once in a while I read an article, or listen to a podcast, and I come across something that's basically always been on my mind, on...

 I recently mentioned that one of my favorite designs, Deities & Demigods, has been signed by a publisher. I'm sure I'll talk m...

 It's been a while since I posted much of anything at all on here, let alone anything about my games. But I did mention that I'd sta...

About a year and a half ago, Jamey Stegmaier created a roll & write game called Rolling Realms for people to play over zoom during the p...

What's in a name? There's already a game called Rolling Freight , by Kevin Nunn, where you use dice to build train routes and chip c...

It's been a while since I've posted anything in my game design blog, but I've actually been doing a little bit of design/develop...

 I got a chance to play a 4p game of Skye Frontier this afternoon with Rick, Aaron, and a new arrival at my playtest group, Eric. Other than...

 I have been missing out on playtesting lately, as every week for the last month I have had to cancel for one reason or another. So I was ve...

 About a year ago I posted about some of the prototypes I'd implemented on Tabletop Simulator. Man, has it been that long? Here's a...