Board Games - Creation And Play

Last week was fairly busy, but I did manage to make it along to Newcastle Playtest after missing March (and possibly February?). It was a gr...

It's been a fairly busy week again, with loads of gaming, if not much design and playtesting. March has been my joint best month (with l...

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...

We're four days into 2016, so it's about time I set myself some goals for the year. I've done it for the last three years and I...

I've spent half of this week in Germany for work, on a flying visit which left me with little time to see anything of Berlin. I did howe...

The good news is that on Thursday evening, after Games Night, The Wife and I decided to take a long weekend away, so we were in a little cot...

... They tried and died. That quote seems somehow appropriate this week. It's been another busy week. Monday I was travelling for work...

If you've been following this blog for a couple of years you'll know that Codename: Vacuum was the first game I started designing wh...

2014 has been a pretty good, if slightly strange, year. It started on New Year's Eve in the house on my own. Thanks to radiotherapy for ...

But not in the way the you might think. On Friday I submitted my first app to the Windows Phone Store. It was accepted within the hour and w...

This week was Newcastle Playtest again on Tuesday, but with guests visiting last weekend, I'd had no time to prepare for it so I went a...