Board Games - Creation And Play

National Game Design Month is over.  The first half was great - loads of progress and fast iterations.  After Paul’s mini-convention I stall...

I'm still looking for playtesters and feedback on my roll & write design . It's come on a lot this month!  As part of National G...

I made good progress on the roll and write (Rocky ’Roid?) up until last weekend. Can I unblock and get one last iteration out? Over the week...

The game boxes have arrived at Paul’s. 1,425 of them. His house is rammed. The focus now must be shipping rewards and clearing some space! S...

I've played it for the first time. Well, not the first time. But the first time with friends. My previous plays were with myself. As fak...

I started work in earnest on Zombology in November 2013 for NaGa DeMon, starting from an idea I’d had for a game for my employer to give awa...

My goal during NaGa DeMon this year, as with a couple of the previous years that I've taken part in, was to make concrete progress on a ...

I've spent the last week (since Sunday afternoon) in Brussels for a work training course. I'm now finally on my way home. It's b...

It's far too early to be thinking about production for FlickFleet, so I've spent a good chunk of this week thinking about production...

And by too good I don't mean great, I mean good, just too much. Traditionally when I design a game the first play is curtailed about a...

Last week I played a couple of games of FlickFleet (bring the Dreadnought into play for the first time in the office lunch break sessions), ...

I got a couple more games of FlickFleet in at lunchtime today and I've another planned for Friday lunchtime too. I'm using these gam...

The most surprising thing about NaGa DeMon 2017 is that I've not made any changes to FlickFleet yet. It's been through four playtest...

FlickFleet has been a long time coming. My friend Paul and I had the idea on a walk last summer, but I didn't do anything with it at the...

As I mentioned last time , to make FlickFleet (in it's current incarnation) you need a bunch of laser cut ships, some wooden discs and c...

I've decided on the walk to the station this morning to take part in NaGa DeMon (National Game Design Month) again this November. Like t...

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...

Another week, another blog post written in a hotel (this time at Manchester Airport, for work). So my last blog post was written on the mo...

November ends today, and with it, NaGa DeMon . This year I did something a bit different, instead of trying to design a game from scratch li...

But in a good way! This morning I'm in a hotel in Manchester, waiting for my colleagues to wake up so we can go for breakfast. Seeing as...