2017 was the first year that I started to use the excellent Board Game Stats app – meaning that for the first time I could look back at the year and have a good...
Lots of news!
It has been a while since I have last written a post on this oft-maligned blog, but there are a lot of new things to tell you about! Good Little Games is reborn Some...
New interview at Tabletop Together
I was recently asked by Peter Møller, who runs the excellent website Tabletop Together, whether I would be happy to answer some questions for a new interview as part of his Designer Spotlight series....
The Crossover: Goals in Games
The Crossover is a series of articles exploring themes common to both video and tabletop game design, and examining how each world can learn from the other. Goals might be thought of as an...
The Year that was and the Year that will be…
Looking over the many ‘Best of 2016’ lists being posted on Twitter and BGG, I couldn’t help but be inspired to return to my oft-neglected blog and write about my game design adventures in...
Perfect Information Podcast August 2016
Thanks to the silver-tongued gentlemen Ben Maddox, I have become the first guest to return to the Perfect Information podcast for a second time – this time to discuss my new game Costa Rica...
Day 84: The Little People
Today’s Pobble was a little bit strange: a sink full of small people appearing to have a pool party. Reading on, the story goes that these little people come out to play once the...
Day 83: An egg-shaped moon
Today’s Pobble was a bit odd really, a photo of some children looking at an egg-shaped moon. Seeing as I already did an astronomy themed idea earlier this week, I thought I would try...
Day 82: Building
Today’s photo over at Pobble concerned building, a theme that initially I found a bit too mundane to set off any interesting design ideas. What’s more, there are already so many different games about...
Day 81: Stargazing
Exactly 2 years after starting this ‘Game a Day’ business, I’ve managed 80 posts, averaging one post every week and a half. So, hardly a game a day! I was reinvigorated to start again...