Board Games - Creation And Play

As I've mentioned recently, I've started designing a second game: Proteome: The Drug Discovery Card Game. I've mentioned before ...

Creative juices that is, before you get any ideas. Reiver Games, my previous games publishing effort was formed after I got into games desi...

As I've mentioned in my last few posts, I've started designing games again. It's been a long time (for most of the time I ran Re...

As I've mentioned over the last few blog posts, I'm working on a new board game design, under the moniker: Codename - Vacuum. It...

I've not made a huge amount of progress on Codename: Vacuum the last few weeks - it has been fairly hectic for a number of reasons. In t...

My games design process starts with a spark of an idea, either theme, mechanics or a combination of the two . This usual sets my head to buz...

With my earlier games: Border Reivers and Carpe Astra the mechanics definitely came first, and the same is true of It's Alive! one of...

Well, it's been nearly six months since Reiver Games officially shut down. The email addresses and website will be disappearing this wee...

It's been almost exactly a year since my last post here, but I'm back for a one-time only update on the state of Reiver Games, me an...

So I hinted that there might be some exciting news coming soon on my blog. Sadly this isn't it. After I announced that I was closing t...

Just a quick update to let you all know where things stand with Reiver Games. Firstly, I'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone wh...

As you will all know I've been finding things hard the last few months. Privately I've been agonising about what to do with the comp...

Since I announced the sad news that I'm going to have to go back into IT to pay the bills (Reiver Games hasn't reached that point ye...

Yesterday I posted a Geeklist on BoardGameGeek describing my two years trying to get Reiver Games to the the point where it could support ...

As promised last week, there's a new version of the Sumeria computer game available for download and testing. This version is a big st...

I've been running Reiver Games for three and a half years now. For the first year and a half I was running it as a hobby - making the ga...

Three weeks ago I mentioned that I was trying to set up a promotion to encourage US shops to stock my games, and to help those that already...

My friend Dunk is trying to get into web design, and as a portfolio project he's giving my website an overhaul. If you've got some s...

Recently I had some friends round for a day's gaming, and one of them happened to mention that board games must be a hit driven industry...

In the publishing business you want to do two things: make stuff (in my case board games) and make money. If you're honest you're do...