Over the weekend, BoardGameArena — a major play-for-free online boardgaming site — just added Jump Gate to their line-up! This very exciting thing has been a couple of years in the making. Shortly after BGA opened up their developer tools, I … Continued
NOTE: The give-away has been completed. Congratulations to Tony Miller for winning the games! I’m building a formal mailing list through MailChimp. You can signup here: Matt Worden Games Mailing List My plans are to use this list to send monthly … Continued
Once again, I will be attending the giganto gaming con that is GenCon Indy! And, unlike other years, I won’t be scheduled wall-to-wall demoing my games! 🙂 That means you’ll be able to find me to hang out and play games … Continued
Wow — 2015 flew by very fast! After the weird 2014 I had (last time I reference that, I promise 😉 ), I originally intended for 2015 to get back on track and catch up to all the plans I had … Continued
Every now and then, I hear from someone that has a 1st or 2nd Edition copy of Jump Gate and takes issue with the “Nothing” Resource cards. Originally, they were in there to make it something of a risk when scanning … Continued
Order by December 3 to get it by Christmas! Currently, I sell the majority of my games through TheGameCrafter.com … here is the link to the games I have available there: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/matt-worden (For an explanation of what print-on-demand games is about, and … Continued
As I mentioned a few weeks back, in my post about solitaire games, I’ve been working on single player rules for Jump Gate. They are ready to share to a limited audience, so I put out a call to members … Continued
If you’re familiar with the classic Greek concept of the Muses, you’ll know what I mean when I refer to my muse giving me an idea for a game … or when I say that I’m waiting on my muse … Continued
When Schmidt Spiele first released Space Mission in Europe, I made an offhand comment on a BGG thread that there was a story about the process of getting from Jump Gate to Space Mission that I would share some day. And … Continued
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about designing solo-play games, and about adding a solo-play option into games that are normally played with multiple players. It’s a different sort of task — and I think a harder task — than … Continued