Designing a board game is a thrilling and creative endeavor, but it’s not without its challenges. As a game designer, I recently had the opportunity to work with Gameland Manufacturing to produce the first polished prototype of our eagerly anticipated board game, Gnomes & Wizards. While the overall production was Read more…
If you like to cook, don’t open a restaurant, go be a chef. If you like to design board games, don’t publish your own game, design it and pitch it to a publishing company. Establishing a new business is a lot of work that is loosely involved with the subject Read more…
I’m a perfectionist which is really hard when you are trying to make something as elaborate as a board game. I often get caught in the trap of feeling the need to make something look 99% complete before asking other’s opinions. What often happens when I do that is then Read more…
“Stop making bloated games!” I wish someone told me this before I got too far into making my first serious game, Gnomes & Wizards. It took me awhile to figure it out but I realized that the more “specialty rules” and quirks there are in your game, the less your Read more…
When in the gaming community, you often hear people describe the theme of a game by a setting or what kind of visual elements it entails. This could be a space theme, a traditional fantasy theme, viking theme, etc. But is that where the theme ends? Is that all that Read more…
In our last post, we kicked off the first of a four parts series on manufacturing. My aim is to demystify some of the unknowns that you may face creating games. Our latest post set the scene of some basics of our costs that we have experienced and some tools Read more…
When it comes to manufacturing products, specifically a board game that you designed, you may think that manufacturing is the last part of the process, when in fact it comes into play right from the beginning. What’s in the Box? When creating your first design, it is important to be Read more…
Standing out from the sea of board games can be a challenge, especially nowadays when every game you find at your FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) or even Target has stunning artwork. We have found that the artwork is definitely important to draw individuals towards your game, but what makes Read more…
Let’s get real. Designing games is hard and takes a lot of time. Being a father of 2 takes a lot of my attention. You probably have your own daily distractions that keep you from designing the next Ticket to Ride or Pandemic as well. How do we carve the Read more…
In this post, we share our process on how we landed on Kickstarter as the chosen platform to launch our games.