I’m already getting excited about travelling to Chelsea, Michigan, in mid-July for Protospiel (the original)! I’ll be road-tripping there again with Jeff King and Sheppy, just like I did a couple of years ago. I’ll be returning with an updated … Continued
Wow — 2015 flew by very fast! After the weird 2014 I hadĀ (last time I reference that, I promise š ), I originally intended for 2015 to get back on track and catch up to all the plans I had … Continued
As I mentioned in my previous post, the Happy Mitten team has really focused on a handful of clear goals with the games they want to publish: easy-to-learn, engaging player interaction, and allowing players to be clever. That “Magic Sauce” … Continued
There was a conscious decision made during development to strictly focusĀ Aether Magic as a 3-to-6 player game,Ā because one of the central mechanics — the social auction — really only works well with at least 3 players. But since theĀ launch of … Continued
If you’ve listened to or read any of the player commentary aboutĀ Aether Magic — like the player quotes on the Kickstarter page, or this succinct review on BGG — you will see a lot of references to player interaction, bidding/bartering, … Continued
Things are about to kickoff in a big way next week with the Kickstarter launch of my gameĀ Aether Magic by publisher Happy Mitten Games.Ā Once that gets rolling, I’m sure you’ll see plenty of posts from me on Facebook and Twitter … Continued
Grant Rodiek at Hyperbole Games (whose blog I link to nearly each month) has collected community-sourced 2014-in-review blurbs from quite a few tabletop gameĀ designers and publishers. CLICK HERE to read the one where my blurb was included!Ā In it, I mention … Continued
So, it’s been a couple of months of downtime on the games front for me. Part of the time off had to do with the start of the school year and needing to focus on what my kids were up … Continued
Tomorrow, I leave for a pretty exciting game design related road trip. I’ll be picking up Jeff King (from All Us Geeks), Jason Glover (from Grey Gnome games), and David Sheppard (known to most as Sheppy) along the way.Ā We’re headed … Continued
A few months ago, I mentioned that I had signed a contract to have a game published by Happy Mitten Games. That game was called “For Goods and Honor” at the time. Since then, a good deal of testing-and-tweaking has … Continued