Board Games - Creation And Play

It's been a hectic and pretty stressful week at work, but once all the visitors left I managed to get another playtest of Codename: Vacu...

Another busy week. This time it's been Codename: Vacuum, Zombology and crazy ideas. I didn't have any travel this week, so I manag...

After testing the new version of Codename:Vacuum a couple of weeks ago , I clearly needed to make a raft of minor changes. The game was so b...

It's been a great week for my gaming. Monday went exactly to plan with me printing and cutting out all 350 cards for new Codename:Vacuum...

Oh, so not naked exactly, but unclothed. I spent last week in Boston, MA for work. I lived in Boston for the winter of 2000/01 and hadn...

I'm off to Boston this week for work (posting this from the airport!) so it's been a busy few days, but I've not let that get in...

I started work on Codename: Vacuum back in November 2011 . I wanted to make a fairly quick sci-fi card game - something like Race for the Ga...

Libraries are so old school. With Zombology V2 all done except for the billions of playtests required , and my German language app awaitin...

It's been a productive couple of weeks since my last blog post. I've started playtesting in the office (still focusing on checking t...

2017's strong start is continuing :-) During the week I spent time on Codename: Vacuum, working out a new card mix and designing a ne...

Last week I set myself some aspirations for this coming year and so far, so good. I managed to get to Newcastle Playtest on Tuesday and try...

For the last few years I've set myself some goals at the beginning of the year ( 2014 , 2015 , 2016 ), I've never aced them, but las...

... if you own a first edition copy of Zombology. I'm getting close to finalising the second edition rules, but there's a couple of ...

This year has been a weird one. My new job has required a lot more travel than I originally expected and as I result I've had a lot less...

I spent last week in the US again (second time in three weeks!), this time visiting towns north, west and south-west of Boston. As before ...

This week I'm off to America for work (I'm writing this at 5am in an airport cafe!), and I'm intending to spend a decent chunk o...

This week I made it to Newcastle Playtest for the first time since April! It was a great evening - good to see the guys and catch up and als...

So as I alluded to last week, I'm considering another print run of Zombology. I've played the game a few times recently with people...

I joined BGG back in February 2006, when I was considering publishing Border Reivers. I finally got around to publishing Border Reivers in J...

As I'm sure you're aware, this blog about designing and playing games has been very light on the designing for the last few months. ...