SSO | Man O' Kent Games

Writing (for) Expansions

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...

SSO: Rage of Montalbano Kickstarter Post-Partum

We’ve recently (as in at the time of writing this within 48 hours) successfully funded our third Kickstarter, this time for SSO: Rage of...

Things Learnt From SSO To Moonflight

Hopefully with each Kickstarter, and each game, we’re learning a little something about how to do this right. As such, between our...

Kickstater Post-Partum for SSO and Moonflight

I had intended to do a post kickstarter examination of SSO but never got around to it, at least partly due to a feeling that I didn’t...

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Development and Other Thoughts

When I sat down to write this blog or at least planned to write it it was one thing and has gone through being something else since, so...

Design In Detail: Prototype Selection

Once an idea has passed basic examination and made it onto the list it is usually allowed to settle for a few weeks at least but most for...

Kickstarting The Easy Way: Why Me?

Having posted about my experience completing my first Kickstarter and my success therein it has been asked what I put the success down...

Kickstarting The Easy Way

This is a blog outlining my personal experiences with SSO, which is both my first Kickstarter project and my first independent table top...

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Pulsating Easter Eggs

SSO has a number of semi-hidden references throughout its artwork and flavour text. The whole feel is entrenched in film futurism from...

Chasing May

Language in games design regularly requires a specificity and accuracy alien to casual speech, made all the more onerous by the necessity...

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