Over the past few weeks I went to two tabletop events: Sasquatch Board Games Festival in Seattle, WA, and Metatopia in Morristown, NJ. This is the second time I've gone to Sasquatch.
Metatopia 2014
Knee Jerk Cards: Designing the Layout and Graphics
This is a guest post by Mark Major, graphic designer and co-developer of Knee Jerk. Knee Jerk is now on Kickstarter, and is nearly 200% funded. Take it away, Mark!
Performance in Knee Jerk
Gen Con 2014 Recap
Wow, we’ve been busy. Knee Jerk is making its way through the review world, with a majority of great results so far. My favorite quote to date is from Board Game Corner: “I think you have a hit on your hands here.” We’ve been prepping a lot of content for the Kickstarter page: the project video, reward tiers, shipping prices, stretch goals, press/testimonials/reviews, etc.
Making Knee Jerk Content Buttery Smooth
Naming Knapsack Games
If you're reading this, you can see from the website that my board game company now has a name: Knapsack Games! The name came after much internal debate, as well as help from you fine folks. Once I brainstormed about 30 unique names I liked, I thinned out the list and then posted a one-question survey on Twitter.
The Many Faces of Knee-Jerk
The work on my context-switching party game, Knee-Jerk, continues. Since its inception, the game has been simple and fun. In short, it’s been good, but not GREAT.
Design Retreat and Knee-Jerk!
Back in December I met up with two of my friends from grad school on Orcas Island: Francisco, who works at Schell Games in Pittsburgh, and Aaron, formerly of PopCap San Francisco and Delectable. A generous friend of mine lent us his cabin for a few days, which turned out to be the perfect place for our first design retreat.
Generating Random Decks for Party Games
Coming Back to Earth
Single-Player Storytelling Game Prototype #4
Exploring 3 Different Prototypes of a Single-Player Storytelling Game
Learning from First-to-Market Products
My first Gen Con was reasonably successful. I met with many publishers about my game prototype MERC MAYHEM, and now I’m waiting to hear back from them.
10 Tips for Writing Board Game Sell Sheets
Luck and Emotion
Wider Playtest Preparations
Selling the Past to Create the Future
After many years of keeping my Magic cards, I’m finally selling all that I can sell. I am selling 430 cards to Card Kingdom for $563.
More Players, Cohesion and Polish
Post-GAMA 2013 Roundup
Conference-bound
You know it’s early when you wake up before Google sends you your daily calendar. Today I’m flying down to Las Vegas for the GAMA Trade Show to meet new folks and talk shop.