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Happy 2nd Anniversary!!
I am going to give myself a pat on the back!! I have been blogging for four years now but this is the second anniversary of my Game Design Blog!!! This anniversary reinforces a number of things to...
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Cooperative games and how to let people make their own decisons
Many cooperative games end up being controlled by a dominant personality or a gamer who has a lot of experience in the game being played. Group decision making is fine but one person making the...
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Google+, more than just a social network
For those of you who don’t know about Google+, it is a social network formed by the people at Google. However, it is very different from Facebook. Google+ allows you to place your contacts in...
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2013 – Will it be an EPIC year or maybe even Legen…wait for it…dary year!
The Christmas season is over and I am back to work tomorrow. I managed to play a game every day of December except one! I also received a couple of Runebound expansions, some Redakai decks and I...
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Bad Elf update – play test #4
Last night I got to play test Bad Elf with friends. The couple I gamed with are experienced gamers and were interested in trying the game. Though I will be replacing the conveyor deck with a central...
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Tower of Doom re-visit and a 2-player bidding game idea
Tower of Doom is a work in progress. I have a prototype and play tested a couple of times. If you search my posts you will find a few posts about the game. Though I have not worked on it in a...
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Bidding idea taken further…
With the help of David Short (designer of Ground Floor and Skyline), I have come up with a theme that could use the bidding system where players bid for an item and the items bid then become the next...
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Baseball Card Collecting – the card game
This is a ‘fleshed-out’ idea from the last post. BASEBALL CARDS – the card game 2-5 players 30 minutes 8+ Overview: Each player takes on the roll of a baseball card collector. By trading and taking...
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If You Go Down to the Woods… update and rule set
After chatting with a few fellow designers, I have updated the rules to If You Go Down to the Woods… The game theme was thought of by my 8 year old daughter and I came up with the simple push your luck...
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Post 2nd Anniversary Contest
Hi All On my first year anniversary of this blog I ran a contest for people on BGG and for regulars that tune into my comments. I am running one again. This year there will have been over 10,000...
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