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...
Category: A Game a Day
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...
Day 80: A Cooperative Gambit
Today’s idea came after watching the play through of Star Wars Episode 1: Queen’s Gambit by the Dice Tower (video here), a rather excellent game that I had heard of, but never actually seen...
Day 79: A Fresh Start!
A very happy 2015 to everyone! I have been meaning to get back to this blogging business for some time (as the original cause for stopping, my PhD thesis, is almost done!), and a...
Day 78: Time Turner
Continuing the long winding road to get back to my normal schedule, today’s idea hinges around getting to ‘do over’ decisions you make during a game, and travel the road never trodden. +++++ Day...
Day 77: Cogs in the Machine
I wrote this idea down sometime in the middle of the night, so I have quite forgotten the inspiration for it! But hopefully it could be an interesting geographical action selection style of game....
Day 76: Castle Building Teutonic Knights
This idea was inspired by my recent visit to Malbork castle near Gdansk in Poland, which is the largest brick castle in Europe, as well as being the former home to the Teutonic Knights...
Day 75: Pigments
Walking through bookshops is a really good way to come up with interesting new themes for games, as was the case when I was strolling through Waterstones in Cambridge last week… +++++ Day 75:...