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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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:...

Apologies for the lack of posts over the past week – I was travelling in Poland and the Czech Republic and have had sporadic, if any, access to the internet. Despite this, I remain committed...

Uwe Rosenberg has developed the idea of a production wheel recently, most notably in games such as Ora et Labora and Glass Road. Essentially it is an easy way to track the production of...

A fun idea I had lately was to take existing games that were considered to be generally bad, and see if you could re-imagine them to be better. One such example was for Battleships...