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Why We Should All Make Mini-Games – The Power of Small Batches | Cardboard Creative Games
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A blog about board games, design, history and creativity. Why We Should All Make Mini-Games – The Power of Small Batches. July 25, 2015. Not all game designers (or game design hobbyists) are like me – but if you are, you undoubtedly have a flair for the dramatic. Dreaming up new games and relishing in how awesome it will be to play them with your friends is exciting, and – much like the children’s classic. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie –. My first game ( Fealty. Between playtests. The reason? Imagine how ...
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Friday Night Vampires | The Geekery
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Art, games, sci-fi, fantasy, comics, cons, living history and whatever. Star Trek: Attack Wing – bad for my budget. Appointment as Court Astronomer →. February 20, 2015. Unfortunately, I hate the system. Those full page sheets full of dots make me dizzy. And there is something disturbing to me about interrupting the story to look up what combinations of these dots a player needs to roll that irks me greatly. Add to this, the collection of books we are using as a resource are all from slightly different v...
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Don’t hate the player(s) – hate the game | Cardboard Creative Games
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A blog about board games, design, history and creativity. Don’t hate the player(s) – hate the game. March 20, 2015. March 20, 2015. When it comes to game design – your players shouldn’t have to “will” themselves to suspend their own disbelief – they should do so willingly and without realizing it. Sounds like a crappy game? Or, likely, a whole lot more – especially if they participate in fantasy sports). How do you get players invested? Let your passion show through! 8211; whatever you find really intere...
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Creature College Weekly Update Week 10 – Competitions, Posters and Goats | Happy Otter Games
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Welcome to Happy Otter Games' Blog. Come and join us to get the latest news on Creature College and our other projects. Indy Board Game Development. Lessons Learned from Running My First Kickstarter. Happy Otter Games Wordpress Feed. London Anime and Gaming Con. The Djinns of Naqala. Creature College Weekly Update Week 10 Competitions, Posters and Goats. May 2, 2015. Welcome to our Week 10 News Round Up! We’ll post pics of Frank with his prize as soon as we’re able to. We also published o...Finally our f...
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The week in Kickstarter….and one other thing…. | We Die a Lot
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We Die a Lot. Cynical to the last dice roll. Skip to primary content. The week in Kickstarter….and one other thing…. March 7, 2015. Today we’re gonna dish out some straight talkin’. Well, a little bit at least. We’ll still round-up what we think are some cool looking Kickstarters, but then we’re going to have some words. Don’t worry though, no ones dying! 8220;Well gosh darnit. Them cow-poke sure are popular these days. Ah-Shucks! Each player will construct a hand of cards that represents their character...
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Oath of Fealty – A new asymmetrical zone of control game | Cardboard Creative Games
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A blog about board games, design, history and creativity. Oath of Fealty – A new asymmetrical zone of control game. April 3, 2015. April 3, 2015. I’ve been hinting at it for months, so here it is – the official unveiling of my new game: Oath of Fealty. 8211; you play the role of one of those princes or bishops – and it’s your goal to change the rules so your family can rule forever as hereditary rulers of the Holy Roman Empire! Player elimination is not required to win the game. Oath of Fealty –. There a...
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You Almost Never Have A Bad Idea – no, really | Cardboard Creative Games
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A blog about board games, design, history and creativity. You Almost Never Have A Bad Idea – no, really. February 19, 2015. February 19, 2015. You only have bad ideas if you think you do. Last time I talked about creativity – I mentioned the importance of DOING vs. just thinking. Creativity is all about hard work, just like anything else. In fact, Terry Crews. It’s about making it a habit. Today I’m going to cover an equal but opposite problem with creativity:. The answer is as infuriating as it is simpl...
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A.J. | Cardboard Creative Games
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A blog about board games, design, history and creativity. Oath of Fealty Update: Iconography. January 5, 2016. It’s been awhile since my last post – but Oath of Fealty is coming along nicely! Below I’ve included the newly redone game board, along with the first 3 icons I’ll be using as part of the game. I’m using icons for 2 key reasons. Pictures take up less space than text and allow a game to be translated into other languages much more easily. These images each represent one of the 3 core action types...
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