Development | Man O' Kent Games

A list of Artists and Graphic Designers working in the boardgame industry.

This blog, even more than most of what I write, owes its existence to Jamey Stegmaier’s blog on the subject. In fact, the main part of th...

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Why Roll and Move is a Bad Idea

That might sound like a weirdly simplistic subject for a Kickstarter/game design blog, but stick with me here. Every week I see a handful...

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Building your TTS mod

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 ga...

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How I write Skirmish games: Perilous Tales designer’s diary

About six to eight months ago Mike Hutchinson (designer of Gaslands) showed me an idea that he had, a solo skirmish wargame called ‘Peril...

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Writing Tabletop AI

Recently I’ve been working on a project with a fairly prominent piece of cardboard AI in it and I was thinking about writing this blog, s...

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Skirmish Games: Developer’s Diary for Martian Racing Federation

Hopefully the subject of this blog should be on free release by now, if it isn’t it soon will be. Some time ago a fairly casual comment w...

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Graphic Design for people who don’t know anything about graphic design

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 d...

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Skirmish game design diary: Mean Street 2084

I’ve recently been signed on to write a series of one-off miniature wargame scenarios for miniature wargames magazine. I thought people m...

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A Song of Tales Designer's Diary: Origins

A few years ago, now I was at a wedding of a close friend and I ended up in a conversation with a stranger at my table centering on two t...

How To Keep An Ideas List

I have a bit of a process (not much) with my game development. It works roughly like this, I have one game that’s in main development, t...

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