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Previous Post: Days of Discovery – Act 3 The original game design that lead to Days of Discovery was a solo-play game of a branching path with a target end location. And even the first drafts of Days involved having to get … Continued
Previous Post: Days of Discovery – Acts 1 and 2 Act 3, in Days of Discovery, covers the actual ocean voyage to find the Land of Danger, and it is where all of the points are scored. The first 2 … Continued
Previous Post: Once More, From the Beginning In the previous post, I wrote about the long development path for Days of Discovery, and gave a list of items that have remained part of the design along the way. This post will … Continued
Back in the fall of 2014, I began working on a solo game about a struggle to complete a journey from point A to point B (with a lot of hurdles to get over in between). Initially, this had its … Continued
Although you wouldn’t be able to tell from watching this site (and its lack of updates for 5 months), I’ve had a pretty busy and enjoyable first half of 2017. It’s just that not much of it was spent on … Continued
In just a few weeks, Jeff King and I will be co-hosting Protospiel-MN (click to register for your badge!), which will be another one of my favorite type of weekends — put dozens of tabletop game designers into a hotel ballroom and help … Continued
I was invited to be on the Cardboard Architects Podcast recently. The hosts, Chris and Joe, are also hobbyist board game designers who love to talk shop. The conversation is relatively brief by podcast standards — right around 40 minutes. … Continued
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
Earlier this year, the Building the Game Podcast held a bit of an informal game design contest. The challenge was to design a dice-based game about American football that could be played with people hanging out in a sports bar. … Continued