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...

When I first posted my blog on CE marking advice the British Toy and Hobby Association provided a wide range of excellent and, more to...

Right off the bat, I want to make very clear, this is in relation to designing your Kickstarter page only. Unless you're a professional...

I had intended to do a post kickstarter examination of SSO but never got around to it, at least partly due to a feeling that I didn’t...

Stretch Goals are a continually complex issue for independent game designers and they revolve around a couple of tricky to calculate...

I’ve said a few times in this blog series that one of the big reasons to get CE marking is that everything produced for sale within the...

Traditional table-top wargames tend to set up as one on one versus competitive games, if they allow for more than two players it...

Most people in most of their lives have very little contact with Graphic Designers and Illustrators or Artists and so when they come to...

There’s a lot of examination of the mechanics of game design and much of it is quite excellent. At the same time there are essays,...

In my anecdotal experience the journey from gamer to game designer goes something like this; New weapon/character/unit; New Scenario; New...