Tom Vasel, a well-known board game reviewer, who puts out several video-based board game reviews per week has recently done a review of “Jump Gate”. While he is normally partial to component quality (and this game won’t blow you away … Continued
I had a very good, busy summer. Got to camp a bit, fish a few more times than I had expected, coach some softball with my 10-year-old’s team, and visit family & friends. Didn’t do much games-related stuff, though … … Continued
Jump Gate was mentioned in the board games review section of the September 2010 issue of Games Magazine. On page 74 of the issue, John J. McCallion — the magazine’s editor-at-large for the “Traditional Game Views” section of the magazine, … Continued
Duncan (spacewolf009), the New Zealander who won the free copy of Jump Gate during the launch celebration has posted his review of the game on BoardGameGeek.com. He’s got nice things to say about the game, and I’m happy to see that … Continued
Matt Drake, at “Drake’s Flames” blog site, has written up the first public review of Jump Gate. While Matt seemed to like the game, and gave a pretty spot-on assessment of the game-play, I think he was way over-the-top harsh … Continued
I am using The Game Crafter (TGC) to publish my board games. If you are familiar with CafePress or Lulu, TGC has a similar publish-on-demand take on board games. As a game designer, I am able to upload any graphics … Continued
Congratulations are in order for Duncan (spacewolf009) from Hamilton, New Zealand, who was randomly drawn as the winner of the copy of Jump Gate that I gave away as part of the Launch Celebration. In addition to what you normally … Continued
As I briefly mentioned in the original launch announcement for Jump Gate, I will be giving away a free copy of the game through a contest on my website. I wanted to give a bit more information about that here. … Continued
Scott Slomiany is another Board Game Designers Forum regular (he posts there as doho123) that I’ve known for a while. I always enjoy seeing what he submits to that site’s Game Design Showdowns, and read his “MeepleSpeak” blog regularly. He … Continued
This is more of a personal post than game-related … although there is a connection to Jump Gate as well. Today we had to put our Siamese cat, Cinder, to sleep. We think she was around 19 years old. We … Continued