Really Little Design Diaries
Small Box Contest: Part 2
I decided I wanted to enter the contest because I’m often rather terrible at constraints. I have a tendency to sandbox the heck out of things and this contest means I HAVE to follow the rules. Now the good news, if you recall, is that I have a MASSIVE list of game...
Loot: Part 2
Once you know you’re building a deck builder, then the rest comes easy, right? Not so much. I ran into so many problems once I started building this and I wanted to take some time to go through some of the more significant ones. I am a big fun of DOING...
Small Box Contest: Part 1
I love a challenge. If you don’t already know, I’m currently participating in a game design challenge where every single day of 2021 I will post a new game design idea that I’ve come up with. As of the writing of this post, I’m at…. 143 for the year so I’m about 12...
Snakes and Ladders and Horseshoes and Handgrenades: Part 1
What exactly is a game? This is the question that started me on this particular game. You see, I was playing a lot of “games” at the time with my kids. We played Candyland. Did you know that if you keep landing on the peanut and going back to the early sections of the...
Loot: Part 1
Are you a sculptor or a painter? This is at the core of the identity of every designer that I’ve ever talked to. Are you a sculptor or a painter? A sculptor takes a big idea, a whole bunch of information, many mechanics, and everything else and starts stripping things...
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