Boardgames

Dice Pools

Recently on the YouTube channel that I operate myself and games designer Mike Hutchinson had a conversation about dice pools, which you...

Collecting SDJ: Part 8

For those who have been following this series of blogs you might be aware that I was down to eleven of the award winners to pick up, that...

Writing (for) Expansions

Expansions can be a great thing for a small designer and producer. They allow you to continue the tail for sales of your game and...

Turing - Designer’s Diary Part 1 – Concept and intro

So, it’s been a weird 12 months, to say the least. My intention 12 months ago was to be well on the way to launching a storytelling game...

Onwards sustainability

Creating products that are environmentally sound is not only good sense for the planet, its good business sense. For two reasons, one,...

A list of Artists and Graphic Designers working in the boardgame industry.

This blog, even more than most of what I write, owes its existence to Jamey Stegmaier’s blog on the subject. In fact, the main part of...

The 5 most (biographically) influential games ever!

I’m not generally a fan of list articles, and even less of ones about what games are “fact” more influential than others. Certainly, if...

The joy of a massive re-write

I recently had a playtest with Mike Hutchinson (Gaslands, A Billion Suns, Perilous Tales) of a game that he was planning to release (and...

Quotes, Components and Companies

By a huge distance the most important thing to get right when looking to become an independent games designer and publisher or...

Building your TTS mod

With lock down still ongoing (I’m writing this blog at the start of July 2020 in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic) more and more...