Game Design | Man O' Kent Games

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...

Psychology – Endowment

At the end of mid-level television game shows when a contestant has lost and is going home with nothing of any financial value there is a...

Turing Designer’s Diary Part 2 – Image and language

So, the central idea for Turing is that a series of abstract images will be presented to players. I’d been knocking the concept around...

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...

Is mastery of a game truly possible?

As gamers we like, by definition, to play games. Some of us then like to get good at those games, and a few really value achieving a...

The Philosophy of game design: The ontology of victory.

Okay, bear with me a minute here. My first self-released game, SSO is a semi-co-op, but in an unusual way. Generally what semi-co-op...