Really Little Games: Our Story

Snakes and Ladders sucks and is not a game. This is the starting point I began my board game design from. I was playing games with my son (at the time he was 4 or 5) and even he was like "so, roll the dice...and move?" Like me, he quickly became disenfranchised with...

How building an expansion for Monopoly helped me become a better board game designer.

Remember when your teacher told you you’d need math someday? They might have been right if you’re making board games.

Why i briefly stopped designing board games

How do you convince your friends to play your weird game made out of cardboard? Ask.

How do you turn snakes and ladders into a game? Add grenades!

Snakes and ladders isn’t a board game. But it could be.

I really didn’t know where to start. I knew that I had some ideas that could potentially turn into a game and then I started listening to the Board Game Design Lab (BGDL) podcast with Gabe Barrett. Gabe is a wonderful designer and educator with an obvious passion for...

I’ve always loved games. At age 8 I was playing Defender of the Crown on Commodore 64. My teenage years were spent playing D&D into the wee hours of the morning. I spent an entire semester skipping Geology class and instead playing Monopoly. Over the last few...