Board Games - Creation And Play

Yesterday I attended the UK Games Expo for the first time since 2009. I attended the first three UK Games Expos in 2007, '08 and '0...

I've actually made some decent progress across the board this week for a change. Monday to Wednesday The Wife was away for work, which...

So I've made a bit of progress on Zombology this week, posting blind playtesting copies to the Leeds and London Playtest UK groups, I...

The Newcastle Playtest group of which I'm (theoretically at least) an assistant organiser is part of a larger network of playtest groups...

Back in August, Dan, Michał and I started up the Newcastle branch of Playtest UK . In the beginning we expected it to just be Dan, Michał an...

The Daughter was up between 4:15 and 4:30 every day last week, so I didn't get as much done as I had intended on the NaGa DeMon winners...

It was Newcastle Playtest again on Tuesday, and now Christmas is out of the way it was better attended than it had been for several weeks. W...

As I mentioned last week , Codename: Vacuum has returned to the fore after a couple of months in the wilderness. I've been making some q...

The Wife and The Daughter have been back for a whole week now and life is returning to a very welcome normality. Memories of my three week e...

Well, my three weeks of enforced exile are over and I've been re-united with my family :-) The last three weeks have been really weird....

I've had a good week of gaming this week, trying to fill the hole left in my life by the absent wife and daughter . Last weekend I made ...

2013 has been a lot less momentous than last year , no major purchases or moves. We've been adapting to life as a family and trying to m...

This week, for the first time in many, many years, three game designs have been in my head simultaneously: Zombology, Codename: Vacuum and m...

I work in software engineering and at the end of a project we hold a 'retrospective' to answer three questions: What went well, tha...

On Saturday, I went to York for six and a half hours of gaming :): my friend Paul had hired a church hall for the day to celebrate his birth...

In my last post I made available a Print and Play version of Zombology. Seeing as NaGa DeMon is only a month long, I need to get the game ...

I took the first version of Zombology to the Newcastle Playtest session on Tuesday night. We played with these rules (note, draft quality!):...

Before making Zombology available to the PIP-hunting masses I wanted to play it at least once first to give me a chance to iron out the wors...

As I mentioned last week, and in Saturday's post , this year I'm going to try to take part in NaGa DeMon . Last year I thought about...

It's been a strange week, this one. The daughter was ill last weekend and the early part of the week and on top of that we're changi...