Technical

Dice Pools

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

Turing Designer’s Diary Part 3 – Hiding and scoring

Turing is, mechanically speaking, a relatively simple game. That’s to say, it has only a few moving parts. This is a conscious design...

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...

Onwards sustainability

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

Setting a Price Point for Kickstarter

There are few decisions that will more seriously affect the long-term prospects of your game’s success, and in turn the success of your...

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...

SSO: Rage of Montalbano Kickstarter Post-Partum

We’ve recently (as in at the time of writing this within 48 hours) successfully funded our third Kickstarter, this time for SSO: Rage of...

Fulfilment, a self-fulfilling prophecy

The single number one reason that successful Kickstarters become very unsuccessful Kickstarters is almost certainly problems with...

The UKCA mark for independent games designers

I’ve written a few times about CE marking for independent games designers and people have found it reasonably useful...

CE marking – Responsible Agents

I’ve had some creators reach out to me and ask about Responsible Agents in relation to CE marking, specifically paid Responsible Agents....