Board Games - Creation And Play

Despite the slight disappointment of Essen, things are still going very well considering how new I am to this. While at Essen I sold my 4,00...

I finally returned from my second Essen at midnight on Monday. It's been a pretty busy few days since I got back too, so this is the fir...

This evening my journey to my second Spiel convention in Essen begins. Despite my best intentions it's been a largely last minute panic ...

Off topic: 600th post - w00t! Last Tuesday I posted about how unprepared I was for Essen next week, and how my travel plans had been throu...

As I've mentioned before, when Sumeria was initially submitted to me it was for 2-4 players. During playtesting one of my playtesters sp...

It's that time of year again, we're just over two weeks away from Spiel '09 (or International Spieletage '09 to give it its ...

The Summer has been pretty quiet here at Reiver Towers. After the rush of orders for the release of Sumeria, the quiet Summer months have ju...

As a publisher, I'm always looking for new games to publish. I'm fortunate to receive a lot of games submissions on a more or less c...

Sorry it's been such a quiet week here at Creation and Play. Mainly due to a very busy week in the real world. Why so busy? A number of ...

As I mentioned last time, I've been doing a few demo days, where I go and spend the day in a games shop with demo copies of each of my g...

Back in June, just after Sumeria came out, I did a demo day at Inner Sanctum Collectibles in Cambridge. I turned up with my demo copies of ...

Newsletters, when done right, are what Seth Godin calls permission marketing : Permission marketing is the privilege (not the right) of d...

I'm expecting September sales to be fairly low, since I've no new games coming out, and I hope lots of people will be waiting to buy...

I've received over 150 submissions in the three years I've been running Reiver Games. I've published four games. Not many make t...

It's just as well that I mostly publish other peoples' games designs because since I've started working on Reiver Games full tim...

I've moved house twice this year. Once from York to Bedfordshire (160 miles / 270 km) in January for The Wife's new job. Then again ...

I'm starting to sort out my Essen visit for this year. Last year I went to Essen for the first time, as an exhibitor and as an attendee....

Well, I've had a week off, mostly spent lying in bed and I have to tell you I'm exhausted! The treatment I was receiving last week...

As many of you will know, I have MS . Next week I'm starting treatment with a new drug and will be in hospital all week. As a result t...

Sumeria was originally submitted to me as a 2-4 player game. I played the 2-player version several times and really liked it. During play-...