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Game Design Diary – November 2018

The darkness of November gives way to the bright lights of December. There’s a smell of mulled wine in the air and …

Wake me up, when September ends…! Well September has blasted past and with it another quarter of 2018 comes to an end. …

This is the second monthly Game Design Diary post which in and of itself is a cause for celebration! That means I’ve …

Way back, near lost in the mists of time, I started toying around with game design. It was fun! I had a …

3 years of Creaking Shelves! Goodness. We’ll be starting school soon. Don’t the little ones grow up fast? As has become something …

Can games be bad? Seems like an obvious question. We’ve all had bad experiences with games in the past. Many board gamers …

What distinguishes Romeo & Juliet from Spartacus? OK, so there are some obvious answers to that but I want to look deeper …

I hate playtesting. This would seem to be a problem for a budding board game designer, so let me elaborate. I don’t …

At the UK Games Expo last month I interviewed Rob Harris from Playtest UK! He very generously shared his very brief free …