Hey, I’m Chris. I make tabletop games and help others make games.
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Review: Meeple Marketing’s Game Designer Marketing Toolkit by Nalin Chuapetcharasopon
Nalin Chuapetcharasopon has made a name for herself for some of her posts in Facebook groups related to board game design. Per her website, "Ever since stumbling into crowdfunding in 2015, I've helped entrepreneurs raise over $13 million on Kickstarter and...
Finding diversity, new perspectives, and doing better in the board game community
For far too long, board games have been dominated by straight white men. For a bunch of reasons, I set out to find the voices and perspectives that weren't white straight men... and there's a ton of them out there. No list like this could ever be called complete -...
Tabletop Playground Review: a Tabletop Simulator replacement, or a pretender to the table?
Officially available on Steam Early Release and elsewhere as of May 15th, Tabletop Playground seemed to come out of nowhere. Made by Modularity Games ("the creators of ModDB, IndieDB & mod.io") and Plasticity Studios, it was announced to some fanfare back in...
What To Do After The Playtest: 20 Playtesting Questions That Set Players Up To Give Great Answers
So you've just finished playtesting a game. Whoever has won gets to play it up a bit, players begin to look at the rest of the cards, and then... ...crickets... Experienced designers know this is the perfect time to begin asking questions, giving feedback, and...
Tabletop Simulator: the Ultimate Guide for Absolute Beginners
Tabletop Simulator is a powerful 'sandbox' program that makes it surprisingly easy to show off your game in a virtual space. It came out in 2015 following a successful Kickstarter, and has become the most popular way to play games virtually. There is a learning curve,...
Making board games virtually: a review of 5 tools
Even before the coronavirus changed the world forever, game designers were creating versions of their tabletop games that can be playtested online. Sometimes it was to connect with playtesters far away, or to play a game with a loved one that can't be there with you....
A glossary of board game terms
Gamers have a language all their own. Some of it is specific to individual games, but lots of terms or phrases have a common meaning. A few notes here: Note this is written to the new gamer, and is not meant to be an exhaustive list — if something's missing that you...
Game design: an introduction to spreadsheets for game designers — with real-world examples
Wait, I thought you were a game designer, not an accountant! LOL. I'm not an accountant... but I was a Business major. Getting good at spreadsheets means being able to wrangle the data in your game into a thing you can show someone else, do math to predict how things...
April 2020 update: games in the time of coronavirus
I know, I know... where the hell have you been, Chris? This used to be a monthly thing, and it's fallen by the wayside... Let's pick it up again. The first few months of 2020 started off OK, got better, then coronavirus happened and shut everything down. So let's...
Book review: Characteristics of Games (George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera)
A "meticulous book about the design of games", this MIT-published textbook based on a college-level course makes the case that "games are valuable because are a fundamental form of human expression". The focus here is on "looking critically at games" and "as a...