I’ve been playing a lot more videogames recently. Over the past ten years, I developed a very specific set of criteria and tastes that made up a paradigm of game design. All of this lead me to search within an extremely narrow (and increasingly narrow over time) space for new games to play—Eurogames in particular, …
Four design lessons which were really obvious to everyone but me Read More »
Auro is “pointed” game design. It is probably somewhere between 10 and 50 people’s favorite game of all time. This is because Auro does one thing, and one thing only, and it does it extremely well. If you like pure, turn based, low-randomness tactics, I do think you can’t do that much better than to …
I’ve got a new podcast episode! This one is, I think, more technical, systems-design oriented, with some bigger questions involved. I mostly wanted to share my thought process about where Escape the Omnochronom! is now, where I imagine it going, and how I feel about it. I’m often conflicted about how much I should keep …
The future and present of Escape the Omnochronom! Read More »
You can purchase the Early Access version of Escape the Omnochronom! now on itch.io! Tell your friends! Technically speaking, I started working on the project that eventually became Escape the Omnochronom! back in 2015, although it has had at least four different names since that time. Someday I’ll have to run you all through the …
Escape the Omnochronom! now available on itch.io! Read More »
This is really exciting! Artist Amber Ross and I co-wrote this comic together (she did all the incredible art!) and I’m really happy with how it came out. I hope to be able to make a comic like this for all of the Escape the Omnochronom! characters, that delves a little bit into their backstory. …
Hey everyone! Today I have a good-old-fashioned formalist-ish game design article. It’s been a little while since I’ve really done one of those, unless it was attached to Push the Lane. This article is also a little bit different than a lot of my other work because I usually talk about rulesets: what the actual …
Designing Strategy: Rushdown, Economy, and Defense Read More »
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