I’ve written a few times about CE marking for independent games designers and people have found it reasonably useful (https://www.manokentgames.com/single-post/2018/03/31/ce-marking-in-boardgames-advice). For those who are not aware, a CE mark is logo that the EU demands you place on your product to sell it legally within the EU (yes, irrespective of the age limit that you print on that game or if you market it as a collector’s item), and the EU have set out a series of direc

Another good man down. Today I saw a good project that was on its way to a tight but achievable funding cancelled. Reasons were given that I don’t really understand, and again I saw the reactions on social media that Kickstarter is only for the big companies, that its only a pre-order system, that its not for the small or independent creators anymore. So, this is something of an open letter to small independent creators and something of a rant to the world at large, but it bo

We’re not a big company, to be honest, we’re barely a company. What we are is two people who hire a handful of other people to make a handful of games and occasionally a little bit of profit. Despite that we still get people looking for a job contacting us in one form or another. We do hire a handful of other people, and are open to hiring more. We’re usually on the look out for artists and a reliable rulebook editor would probably be a nice name to add to the list, but gener

I recently had a playtest with Mike Hutchinson (Gaslands, A Billion Suns, Perilous Tales) of a game that he was planning to release (and I think by the time this gets posted, has released) in the compilation magazine Blaster. We absolutely tore the game a new one, pretty much everything in it needed changing and pretty fundamentally too. I was talking to Mike after saying sorry if it was demoralizing, but that the game that it could be should be fun. His response was very ind