The next game I’m working on is called Monster Under the Bed. It’s a cooperative card game for families– about age 8 and up, I think. The basic premise is “you are preparing to fight off the monster under the bed.” Everyone needs to have at least 1 good dream worth about 9 points or […]
How to make things fast
Leila Johnston has a 6-minute video presentation she did at Ignite London recently about “Making Things Fast.” Not about speeding up stuff, but about making things very quickly. It’s worth a watch, and it’s only 6 minutes long, but if you absolutely hate Internet video, here are the highlights, as interpreted by me: Let go […]
Game Design Meetups
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 […]