Recently on the YouTube channel that I operate myself and games designer Mike Hutchinson had a conversation about dice pools, which you...

Turing is, mechanically speaking, a relatively simple game. That’s to say, it has only a few moving parts. This is a conscious design...

At the end of mid-level television game shows when a contestant has lost and is going home with nothing of any financial value there is a...

So, the central idea for Turing is that a series of abstract images will be presented to players. I’d been knocking the concept around...

Expansions can be a great thing for a small designer and producer. They allow you to continue the tail for sales of your game and...

So, it’s been a weird 12 months, to say the least. My intention 12 months ago was to be well on the way to launching a storytelling game...

Creating products that are environmentally sound is not only good sense for the planet, its good business sense. For two reasons, one,...

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...

As gamers we like, by definition, to play games. Some of us then like to get good at those games, and a few really value achieving a...

Okay, bear with me a minute here. My first self-released game, SSO is a semi-co-op, but in an unusual way. Generally what semi-co-op...