Why Gamers Make the Best Designers An Acquired Understanding of Matching Challenge Level to Player Ability Level At the core a game designer is the advocate for the player. That means the designer makes decisions in order to deliver the best play experience as possible for the player. Judgments about what makes a good play [...]

Sorry for the short post, but there is an awesome game on Kickstarter right now being published by a good friend of mine who needs help getting it off the ground. Backing has been slow for some reason, but I believe in his work. Check it out if you could use a good casual/filler game [...]

I’ll be the first to tell you that Excel (well, spreadsheets in general. OpenOffice.org shoutout.) is one heck of a powerful tool. I use it all the time to help organize my thoughts and run calculations and simple simulations in my boardgame design endeavors. But this…this blows my mind. Via Boingboing: Cary Walkin, an accountant [...]

I love stuff like this, mostly because sometimes it inspires people just enough to take a crazy pipe-dream of an idea and run with it. (it worked on me once!) http://johanvinet.tumblr.com/post/23535804010/calvin-and-hobbes-what-the-16-bit-video-game   Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas (or Christmas-like holiday of your choosing) and Happy New Year!

When I heard about the decision to end Nintendo Power a few months ago, I didn’t really know how to react. The magazine always had a certain charm to it, and a special place in my childhood since I finally convinced my parents to get me a subscription at issue 38 (and began collecting back [...]

If you have ever wanted to know how to papercraft a few walls of your house into a Minecraft Mine…scape…thing (and who HASN’T? Am I right??) This is how you do it!   http://www.laboratory424.com/build/minecraft Isn’t it beautiful? (The lava room is for time-out, kids…)

At GenCon I had the pleasure of finally meeting the awesome folks at The Game Crafter in person and they asked me to do an interview with them! So here it is! http://news.thegamecrafter.com/post/31060659319/come-with-me-to-glendale-arizona-to-have-a-chat Thanks, TGC!

I’d like to share some awesome footage of the latest Convention we attended, from our friends at Geekssociated Press. It contains an awesome featurette of one of our newest games, RoboRiot!

Sure, some of them might just be unsubstantiated rumors but the vast majority of the content on Did You Know Gaming? is verifiable and just plain entertaining to read. This kind of thing is right up my alley, and surprisingly most of these things I did not know already. It seems that my studies have [...]

It may not have a fancy-looking site, but the International Arcade Museum is an amazing place on the internet. They have a growing database of arcade games, pinball machines, slots, music machines, vending machines and more. Gimmick machines and novelty devices from the past galore, most pages with photos. IAM also offers auction listings for [...]