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Maximum birds, minimum stones.

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

Saturday, July 23, 2022

May The Riftforce Be With You (also: custom guild ideas)

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 Riftforce Riftforce is a recent lane combat game (like Battle Line or SolForge or something) that I've been playing a lot on BoardGa...
Friday, July 22, 2022

ONE 18-card game design jam, THREE microgames!

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18-card game jam In the KBGames Community discord they just did an 18 card game design jam -- which is an exercise to think about designing ...
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Friday, July 08, 2022

Micro Worker Placement game progress, and the "Strategy Triangle"

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I recently posted about a micro worker placement game that had come together pretty quickly from idea to 1st prototype. I mentioned a lot o...
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Thursday, June 30, 2022

Living Forest - PYL Deckbuilding done right

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 A month or two ago, I  stumbled across a game on BGA that I'd never heard of before. The art looked nice, but I knew nothing about it....
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Thursday, June 23, 2022

"Challenge" vs "Difficulty"

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I was thinking about Challenge vs Difficulty (particularly in cooperative board games) recently. At a glance, they sound like the same thing...
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Friday, May 27, 2022

3 new ideas... 1 new game! ... Part 3: Micro Worker Placement

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 In part three of my 3-part post, the 3rd (and final) idea I'll discuss was inspired by another comment on Twitter, this one about desig...
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3 new ideas... 1 new game! ... Part 2: Trick Taking as a Movement Mechanism

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 Continuing my 3-part post about 3 new game ideas I recently had... Trick Taking as a Movement Mechanism The 2nd idea I'll discuss was i...

3 new ideas... 1 new game! ... Part 1: Telescoping game idea

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 Recently I've had 3 new game ideas, inspired by something I saw on Twitter or heard on a podcast, one of which has already graduated to...
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Thursday, May 12, 2022

Keeping up with Keeping Up With the Joneses, take 2

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Time for a status update on Keeping Up With the Joneses: I've recently tightened up the card pool, replacing some sub-par cards with one...
Saturday, May 07, 2022

New games discovered recently on BGA (2 hits and a miss)

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 Ever since the Pandemic... really ever since my son was born (4 years ago now!) I've done most of my gaming online rather than in perso...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

A Glowing Review

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 I don't generally do game reviews, but every once in a while I come across a game that interests me in one way or another, and I spend ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

The List: circa April, 2022

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It's been a while since I've taken a look at   The List , and I've got some updates to make! Let's get right to it:    Publi...
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