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Moonflight Development: Many Moons - Developing Asymmetric Games

So, from the first the basic mechanics of Moonflight were pretty solid. I’ve tweaked the player steps to avoid downtime and combat hate...

Temple Crush: Crushing It

Temple Crush is based on a fairly simple and obvious idea really. There are blocks and meeples in most euro games and ancient temples...

Kickstarting the Easy Way: Designing for Kickstarter

Running a Kickstarter is a very specific skill and its hard to learn without doing, if you’re putting a game onto Kickstarter its...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...