Board Games - Creation And Play

After the disappointment of yet another awesome game designed by a friend that they don't want us to publish I took one of my older desi...

This week has been all about tweaking FlickFleet. There are now three blindplaytesting copies in three different countries. Three sets of pe...

I'm currently on holiday in Bristol, so I'm auto-posting this post that I wrote last week. Over the last couple of weeks I've st...

My parents have been up this week, so I've had a chance to pick the brains (how appropriate!) of my dad, a retired art teacher. I've...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I've been working on the Zombology artwork for the next version I'm making. The picture below ...

As I'm sure most of you are aware, the title is a reference to Race for the Galaxy , one of my favourite games and one which I've pl...

It's been a good week. I've had my first Games Night for four weeks (and sadly last Games Night for another three due to work travel...

It's been a really busy week this week, both gaming and non-gaming. We're having a load of family up next weekend for a birthday par...

I'm in America at the moment for work, like I was last summer . Last year I arranged to go to the Fantasy Flight Games Event Centre a c...

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...

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

The last couple of weeks have been good to Codename: Vacuum, last week I played it four times on Thursday twice at lunch with Dave, one of ...

Thursday was Day of the Vacuums, it's like Day of the Triffids, but more mineral than vegetable. It was Games Night that evening and Gav...

This week has been a busy one. It started in Bristol, leaving my parents' house before 8am on Monday, then a five hour car journey to Yo...

The last few weeks have been exciting, with several things, both games related and not, coming to a head. On the gaming front, I've had ...

It's been a busy week at ex-Reiver Towers. We were away last weekend with all my family and on our return The Daughter came down with a ...

And I'm not being sarcastic! So last weekend as I mentioned last week , my mate Tim was up for a long weekend with his family. During t...

After each game of Codename: Vacuum I record a bunch of information, about who played, how long it took, who scored what in which category, ...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago , I've finally got round to asking for some structured feedback from the mates who I've been te...

I had the idea for Codename: Vacuum about fifteen months ago now. It got its first proper play at Games Night during February last year then...