Boundless Distraction
March 2013
4 posts
Before it is boring
If anyone has played any board games then the odds are they’ve been here before. The game starts out decently fun, but then time progresses and peoples eyes glaze over, no one is interested anymore. What happened?
Well, for me there…
Sometimes in life we get stuck on something, and sometimes that something is easier to just throw to the side than to figure out. While I understand the need to put something aside and just let it be worked out in the back of your mind, don’t forget about…
I’ve been working on games on and off for over a year and still to this day the hardest part for me is playtesting. Criticism is a huge part of creating a game, if you can’t handle being told your idea doesn’t fit, or it needs work, you should probably…
February 2013
1 post
It’s easier today
Everything has become easier today than it was in the past. I say this carefully because I know what it’s like to sit and wonder how I’ll ever be able to successfully put a game on the shelves of Walmart, Barnes and Nobles, or at the least, any local game…
November 2012
4 posts
Here are the list of entries we received for the Co-Op Design Challenge. Our guest judge Chris Leder will be narrowing this list down to a set of finalists over the next week or two.
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ”
― Pablo PicassoWhen starting in game design it’s easy to get carried away with ideas we had when we first start and try to force it all to fit. I’ve got plenty of ideas sitting on the sidelines…
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Do it wrong
I’ve been into a lot of books lately, mostly I like to listen to them while I work, either doing my day job or cleaning up my house. I ran into an audio book called ‘The 5 Elements of Critical Thinking’which gets me a lot of grief from other people but I…
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October 2012
10 posts
I’ve ordered 2 new copies of Noobs! with improvements. Ordering 2 might be a costly mistake if I have missed needed corrections but I would like to leave a copy at the local game store, maybe even both of the local game stores.
When I played this game at…
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I just played a great game of ‘Storm the Castle’ yesterday and today. I played it yesterday and had a blast. Rich, the creator this game had invited me to play a second time and I declined because I wanted to let someone else play, someone did sit down…
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The winner of the Steam Punk Design Challenge is: City of Gears
Our guest judge, Ben Haskett, had this to say about City of Gears:
City of Gears is a fantastic worker placement game that plays incredibly fast; of the three play sessions I participated in, the game never ran much more…
Well, the drawing of one is done, congrats Ridiculous Goatee, you win! SMH.
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I know the counter says it’s done, but there is still an hour and a half til the drawing entries are final. If you review Homestead before I check the reviews tomorrow (which actually gives you a good 10 hours to write a review) you’ll be entered to win.…
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Having the first copy of Noobs! being printed. This is a test run to ensure the art comes out fine as well as having good quality cards to aid in testing the game. I’ll be heading to the local game shop once I receive it and we’ll see what people around…
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