The Las Vegas Board Game Designers Meetup meets every 2 weeks to talk about game design and run some playtests. We had a good discussion this time about what the group should work on, with various ideas being floated around. There was some talk about Kickstarter as a platform for selling games (“do you want […]
GAMA Trade Show Roundup
Here’s my quick round-up of notes from the GAMA trade show, which I attended a bit over a week ago.
The Musketgears RPG
I present to you game #3 in my 14 in 2014 challenge! I wrote this in response to Matthew Bannock’s Steampunk RPG contest. This is The Musketgears, a steampunk RPGÂ Â set in mid-19th century France, during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III. The players take the roles of Codenames: Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and D’artagnan, the espionage […]
Game Designer Meetup and Playtest
On Monday, I was late to the Board Game Designer Meetup (it’s every 2 weeks) because I stopped in and visited a friend who opened a game shop this week. They’re still in their “soft open,” with the grand opening scheduled for April 5th, which is also International Tabletop Day. I’ve volunteered to run games […]
14 Games in 2014
I think I’ve given myself a personal challenge: write 14 games in 2014. It’s part of my unofficial “game design apprenticeship” in which I try to become a great game designer through hard work, study, creativity, and maybe a bit of luck. I posted about my first two last week, d3 GUM and Night of […]