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How I Write Skirmish War Games: Campaigns
In my anecdotal experience the journey from gamer to game designer goes something like this; New weapon/character/unit; New Scenario; New...
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Books For Game Designers and Kickstarter Creators
While there are a range of excellent blogs online I've always tended towards physical books for reading and reference. As such here are...
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Legends: Making Tales
Legends is the second in our series of short miniatures skirmish games. It is a fast moving game of extreme events struggled over by...
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How I Write Skirmish War Games: Narrative As Goal Not Excuse, Part 2 Narrative Rules
Narrative scenarios are all well and good but they are fundamentally an addition to an existing rules set and the best way to achieve a...
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How I Write Skirmish War Games: Narrative As Goal Not Excuse, Part 1 Scenarios
There is a sentence that turns up in various war games, it amounts to something like this: “if rules are unclear/confusing/badly written...
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How I Write Skirmish War Games: Chance and Punishment
Dice and probability are an inevitability in any war game, however a distressing number of games include it simply because "war games...
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Moonflight Development: Learning Lessons
Bad playtests are the ones when nothing goes wrong. I'm happy where Moonflight is right now as a game still developing. The Jack O' Clay...
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How I Write Skirmish War Games: Introduction and Manifesto
I've worked on a few miniatures war games now, written a handful and studied a whole bunch, as such I've formed a set of hopefully useful...
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Useful Pages and Blogs
No designer stands alone and there are a wide selection of blogs we at Man O' Kent refer to ourselves. I'm not going to recommend...
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Development and Other Thoughts
When I sat down to write this blog or at least planned to write it it was one thing and has gone through being something else since, so...
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