The great sun of Catan rises over Indianapolis, and we are once more gathered to the summit of The Hobby.  Cower good friends, for GenCon...

My latest board game design has be torturing me a bit. I've been under the hood trying to maximize every last aspect, and get it running...

Working onsite at a job usually involves a lot of “hurry up and wait.” There’s a lot of rushing around for a couple hours, manically...

Almost exactly nine years ago, I got sick. I had a wicked fever, and I needed to call out for most of a week. Isolated, bored, and...

Here’s another one I’m going to frame carefully. My goal, and I think almost every game designer’s goal, is to make someone’s favorite...

I’m not entirely sure if this is controversial or not, but as intense as playtesting is, I don’t think it’s half as hard as pitching. And...

So, here’s a thing that keeps me up at night. Anyone who’s hosted a house game of poker has had to answer what I think might be the most...

This is mainly the story of a not terribly smart, and relatively expensive marketing decision I made for my little indie board game...

So, people in every branch of the cultural tree have been bandying about the phrase “Art is never finished, it is only abandoned” for...

After I got out of the subway, I ran into the first bodega I could find. The rain was coming down in these rhythmic sheets thanks to the...

This one is going to get me in trouble, though I'm not sure with whom. The world of game design is ensconced with numbers. When you...

I’m not sure I’m ever going to know what any game I design will end up being. They keep kicking me in different directions than I expect....

Whenever I tell anyone outside the hobby that I’m trying to make a board game, I get some variation of the same question. “How’d you even...