Board Games - Creation And Play

My parents are here this week. It's lovely to see them. We Facetime almost every week. But I only get to see them in the flesh three tim...

I've had a new idea. Inspired by For All Mankind. I've been watching it in my spare time. I.e. while washing up. It's very much ...

I’m taking a break now for Christmas. Heading to Bristol to see family and in-laws. Will probably take some prototypes along with some games...

After playing with Evernote and Notion I’ve gone back to the iPhone Notes app.  The free one from Apple.  In the last month I’ve taken notes...

I'm actively working on four games. Rocky 'Roid is with playtesters awaiting feedback. Siren Song I've tried a couple of times s...

I have a full-time job. And a young family. Time is tight. Since Christmas we've settled into a rhythm where I have an hour a day to wor...

This week I've finally finished off the new deck of goal cards for my Coalescence prototype. It's taken me weeks and weeks due to a ...

A lot can change in a week. At the end of the day that my last post went live I found out that due to The Toddler’s (almost certainly not CO...

This week just gone has been all about FlickFleet. At the beginning of the week I was trying to get everything in place for a Cardboard Edis...

This week I made it along to Newcastle Playtest for the second month on the trot (pretty good effort - since my new job started there's ...

In 2004 I was a hobby games designer. In 2006 I became a hobby board game publisher. In 2008 I became a (bad!) professional board game publi...

With NaGa DeMon done you'd expect things to be calming down, but not so much - this week has been one of lots of little things that nee...

I've said before that you shouldn't invest too heavily in the components of your early prototypes since the game is likely to chang...

I'll get to the subject of that provocative title in a minute! Aside: this is my 666th blog post. Make of that what you will. Just a br...

For the last few months I've been making a new prototype of Codename: Vacuum roughly once a month. I'd play the last version a few t...

As I mentioned last week, I'm converting the art from A3 pages to card size ones. As part of that, I have to admit to myself that I'...

In the early stages of making cards for a game I do the art on A3 sheets of paper, with the cards in a 5 x 5 grid. I've got a blank docu...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted some pictures of a few cards from the last three versions of Codename: Vacuum. The pictures showed small inc...

First of all, a quick 'Hi!' to those of you who found this blog through Boardgame News or Reddit and decided to stick around to see ...

It's alright, I'm not talking about prototypes made from raw meat, disappearing ink or short-lived radioisotopes*, but the life-span...