Thrive is on Kickstarter!
So Thrive is a game I designed during my game-idea-a-day project, way back in 2016! It’s a two-player abstract strategy game (which should surprise nobody), and the big innovation is that you augment...
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Spiel 2019
This year I attended my first ever Essen Spiel, the world’s largest board game convention. Bucket list item: Check. I came back with this pile of games …as you can see, they are mostly (but not all)...
View ArticleThrive – IGDA Twin Cities talk
Last night I gave a talk (on twitch.tv/igdatc, as all of our IGDATC talks have been for the last 6 months) about Thrive. It was basically a retrospective on the design and development of Thrive as a...
View ArticleFormal Game Representations
There are a few different specialized “languages” out there now for describing games. Perhaps because Abstract Strategy games are often quite “simple” in terms of rules complexity, these sorts of game...
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Blinks 3D Printed “simulator”
I’ve previously only mentioned once on this blog (in passing) that I spent some time a couple of years back working on a prototype for the Blinks game system (https://move38.com/). I backed the first...
View ArticleFeatures and Considerations for Digital Board Game Conversion
Some Definitions Conversion: The labor/effort involved in porting a game from a tabletop or “boxed” version to a digital platform.Digital Platform: An environment where software can run. Possibilities...
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Blither Heuristic Notes
Note: If you haven’t already, you’ll probably want to read my original blog post introducing Blither before you dive into this one. What’s a heuristic?!? I promised to write up some “strategy notes”...
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Blither for iOS
Last week I launched an app for my board game Blither. I’ve written about Blither on this blog twice previously, the first time describing Blither’s rules and a bit about how and why it was created,...
View ArticleCard Game Systems
As a game designer, I am of course interested in “game systems” both as a concept, and specifically, as objects to own and play. I love the idea that games can be broken down into parts that can be...
View ArticlePorting Board Games to Digital Platforms talk for CrafterCon & Madison...
I gave a talk at this year’s CrafterCon, (a single-day convention The Game Crafter puts on before the Madison Protospiel), and they recorded it and posted it to youtube. Unfortunately, I am not in the...
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