Review: The Board Game Designer’s Guide to Careers in the Industry – Joe Slack
However long you’ve been a game designer, you’re probably aware there’s a lot of people that go into making a game. If you’ve researched how to run a Kickstarter campaign, you’re already aware of how many hats you have to wear. Those...
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...
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...
Book review: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms
I’ve been meaning to review more of the books I’ve been reading behind the scenes. Since Building Blocks first came out in June 2019, I was initially hesitant to buy this book, not because of the authors or the subject, but because of the price tag — about $50...
Kickstarter Preview: ‘Fail Faster’ playtesting journal
Part of good playtesting means taking notes, and for better or worse that means a paper notebook. (No way my laptop leaves my house unless it has to, and typing notes into a tablet or smartphone is too slow.) For most of the last two years, I’ve used small...Fast. Fun. Easy to play.
Hey there, I’m Chris. These are my games, and this is my story of making them.