by Really Little Games | Feb 26, 2021 | 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...
by Really Little Games | Feb 15, 2021 | Our Story
Monopoly is, despite all of it’s problems, actually a pretty balanced game. Now, this is assuming that you use the actual rules of the game and not the house rule variations that most of us have added in order to spice up our gaming lives. It’s also a relatively...
by Really Little Games | Feb 8, 2021 | Our Story
Games are not hard to design. Anyone who has played games a decent amount could probably take an idea, add a few of their favourite game mechanics, and VOILA… GAME. The really hard part is making the game SYSTEM work and this is where I tell you the thing that will...
by Really Little Games | Feb 1, 2021 | Our Story
Once I had created a game that I felt really good about in snakes and ladders and horseshoes and hand-grenades…I stopped. For me, at that time, it wasn’t about “making” a game, it was about “designing” a game. Honestly, the REALLY fun thing for me at the time was just...
by Really Little Games | Jan 25, 2021 | Our Story
Thursday night was the highlight of the week for many in our game group. We would put the kids to bed, grab some snacks, and head out for three hours of laughing and gaming. So the idea of interrupting that with, “would you like to play this very roughly thought out,...
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