Yeah … I was surprised I was able to do it too! Now, there’s no pretty pictures, diagrams, etc. But the 2 player reference pages give nearly all of the details needed to play the game without being totally overwhelming … Continued
I’ve been working on Magistrate, in its various incarnations for over 4 years now. Yeah, I know. During that time, the design has ebbed and flowed, but the core concepts have stayed pretty stable at the high-level … of course, the … Continued
After handing my “For Goods and Honor” prototype to Jeff Large with Happy Mitten Games during GenCon back in August, the past couple months have been a fun an interesting series of e-mails and Skype sessions. The result has been … Continued
As I continue working on Magistrate, one of the things that has become rather stable is the information on the cards. Players manage a handful of these cards, discarding some in exchange for materials at the start of their turn, gaining … Continued
The time has come for me to do a bit of clean-up and cutting back on my back projects. Somewhere in the middle of the run-up to GenCon, attending the fun in Indy, and mulling/digesting things afterwards, I felt a … Continued
Well, this is the “Go!” week for GenCon Indy 2013, and I am totally pumped! I will be bringing 5 different prototypes with me, in addition to my shiny new copy of Jump Gate, 3rd Edition. If you bump into … Continued
After some play tests at Protospiel-Milwaukee, I had given Magistrate a couple months of rest. But, it was time to get it back out on the table and start working on adjustments based on the feedback from back in March and testing … Continued
So, after my first 3 posts about Thunder Run to Gratis-3 (Intro, Basics, Carrier Commands), it turns out that I missed the deadline for the contest the game was intended for in the first place. And I just stopped posting … Continued
Went on a great 4-day camping weekend with my family. When I returned, I had a USPS box sitting on my porch from TheGameCrafter.com. It contained a number of things in it … new cards and rules booklet for my Thunder … Continued
So it’s been a few weeks … errrr, a month. 😉 Summer always gets me overly busy into fun things that aren’t necessarily game related. So, I’ve been off doing that sort of thing over the past month — camping, … Continued