Want to try one of our games? You can print this one on one page! In Mosaic, you’ll try and restore the Mona Lisa of the Galilee, an ancient tile portrait of a mesmerizing, mysterious woman with just a hint of a smile. Mosaic is a roll-and-write game, like Yahtzee. You supply the dice and the »more
Category Archives: Games
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Pickpockets is on Kickstarter now!
Lately I’ve teamed up with designer Matt Loomis to make tons more games. Our first to be published is a small game in the Buttonshy Games stable of wallet games, called Pickpockets. These are games of no more than 18 cards, packaged in a small wallet. Our is the first REAL wallet game though, because »more
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Pitchcraft!
(x-posted to Whose Turn Is It Anyway) Robin Lees, host of the very enjoyable Whose Turn Is It Anyway podcast, wrangled a few designers together to write about different aspects of designing, playtesting and publishing games. Here’s the piece I wrote, which I thought I’d share on this site too. For the other articles in the »more
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Panda Preserve PnP
Want to play a game about herding an adorable panda? Of course you do. It’s my submission to the DFW Nerd Nighters Design Competition and it’s a ton of fun! You download the Print-n-Play and please come back and leave comments. You can watch this Youtube video to learn how to play.
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Conquest of Canaan Is Back
After an amicable parting of ways with the previous publisher, who did a great job developing the game further, but who does not have the ability to continue to drive the project further, Conquest of Canaan is once again available for another publisher. To help explain what the game is all about, I made a »more
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Panda Preserve – DFWNN Design Vlog #2
As you may know, I am competing in the #DFWNN design competition. This is part 2 of my design vlog. You can check out part I here.
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Panda Preserve – DFWNN Design Vlog #1
I was recently accepted into the Dallas-Fort Worth Nerd Nighters Design Competion, aka #DFWNN! Each participant was sent a roughly identical kit of components from Panda Game Manufacturers, a top-quality and well-known game printer. The challenge? To create a fully-playable, fun game in about three weeks. Below is my first video documenting my game design process.
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The ChronoSphere Kickstarter is live! [UPDATE: It’s Over]
UPDATE: ChronoSphere has successfully funded. You can pre-order it here now and get a special discount: [shoplocket id=OaAUN w=330 h=500] ————- I’m so excited! It’s live… and people I haven’t even met have decided that they believe in me and this game enough to start to pledge! What a crazy, love-filled world we live in. »more
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ChronoSphere Kickstarter Coming Soon!
ChronoSphere is a game of historical trivia, bluffing, and making know-it-alls cry! Gather up 2-7 friends and see if you can reconstruct history the way it happened… or close enough to fool your opponents. Each of the 96 beautiful cards features an invention, historical figure, or event one one side, and the date of the event »more
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Hippos Go Berserk – Newest Iteration
I’ve gotten some great feedback on this game, and I will be experimenting with a few different ideas. The main trouble with the game right now is that it’s bogging down under the weight of the movement rules. Instead of chaotic fun, there’s too much planning ahead. To deal with that, I’m going to introduce »more
