Are game design contests worth it? For the Whirling Derby team, contests have been a cornerstone of our development as self-publishers and designers. We entered three board game contests on The Game Crafter. from Pocket http://ift.tt/1tBJA0a via IFTTT

If you’re getting into the idea of creating your own game it can be hard to know where to start. from Pocket http://ift.tt/XOOz14 via IFTTT

On August 16, 2014, 15 designers and 12 publishers gather for one night to date each other 6 minutes at a time. Designer/Publisher Speed Dating at Gen Con is exactly what it sounds like. It’s speed dating – without the good night kiss. from Pocket http://ift.tt/Xi2DiW via IFTTT

I had the pleasure of having dinner with Tom Felber tonight. from Pocket http://ift.tt/1qHauUu via IFTTT

As a teenager, Gordon Geissler routinely played the tactical war board game Squad Leader with friends. Geissler was reintroduced to gaming several years ago while stationed in Germany with the U.S. Air Force. from Pocket http://ift.tt/1sWyYc1 via IFTTT

[This is the second part in a multi-part series examining how uncertainty works in an analog role-playing context. The first part can be found here.] To design any game within a culture means controlling different aspects of socially experienced “uncertainty” within the game. from Pocket http://ift.tt/YIL2lS via IFTTT

This issue of   explores the structural affordances of games. from Pocket http://ift.tt/YIKZ9Z via IFTTT

For those of you who don’t follow the blog regularly, I kickstarted my first board game, Corporate America, way back in November of 2012. It’s now July 2013, and I just posted an update to my Kickstarter supporters announcing that the project is complete! from Pocket http://ift.tt/1q3YcPS via IFTTT

The Cult of the New is given a lot of attention by our hobby. This cult refers to board game hobbyists who play a game once or twice then quickly move on like nomadic savages to the next shiny object. In the past few years I’ve been a frenzied buyer of board games. from Pocket…

I love playing board games. I made this documentary of people playing board games and expressing why they enjoy playing boards in order to share that passion. The song ‘July.#04’ by arizono kazuhiro is used in this documentary under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. http://freemu from Pocket http://ift.tt/1D4bwxG via IFTTT