Hi everyone! It’s been a few months since I wrote about Spellstorm, my new deckbuilding card game. As I wrote about a few months ago, the game took a huge turn somewhere around December, and I am so glad it did. The version of the game that I was working on before would get somewhat …
Hello everyone! Welcome to our third episode of STRATEGY CAN BE FUN. Today, Brett Lowey and I discuss the Cole Wehrle game, Pax Pamir. I think this is maybe the first game where Brett and I’s positions on the game have diverged somewhat, although perhaps we have also pulled each other’s opinions together somewhat as …
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Been thinking about cooperative games for awhile, largely as a result of many of my recent thoughts on competitive games and the way that they inherently “socially rank” their players. There’s something about that that bothers me more and more over the years, both for political and personal reasons, many of which I’ve talked about …
Why “quarterbacking” isn’t a problem in cooperative games Read More »
Today’s episode is not a theory-heavy episode at all. Instead, we have a lot of practical advice and other game development thoughts that may be helpful to anyone else who, like me, wants to make and try to sell their own games. On the docket for today: How to not hate marketing (partially by not …
How to not-hate marketing, Kickstarter tips, and my next big game Read More »
Here’s an update on how the Kickstarter is doing: As of the time of this writing, it was just over 90%, in under a week! Feeling really good about that. I’ve also been working hard on the Bridge Hacking Expansion, finishing up some art and doing some playtesting. Here’s some good news: it’s all going …
I can’t believe I went this long without interviewing one of my biggest game design theory heroes, Geoff Engelstein. Together with designer, game design writer and fellow game design podcaster Isaac Shalev, they’ve written a book that seems like it might be kind of a big deal in this field. To quote a bit of …
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