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"East India Company" demo at PrezCon 2016: (l. to r.) Darrell Louder, T.C. Petty III, Paul O., Matthew O'Malley, Jessica W...

Saturday Jarrett Melville organized an UnPub Mini event at The Game Vault in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  This event was a nice informal g...

Saturday 7 February was the first full day of UnPub 5 , the unpublished game prototype playtesting convention that has grown dramatically in...

Keith Ferguson and I are at UnPub 5 , presented by Ad Magic at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland.  Darrell Louder ...

Susan McKinley Ross Photo: ChiTAG I've recently come to consider seriously why most of the game designers with whom I'm familiar ar...

Last Saturday, Keith Ferguson ran an UnPub Mini event at Game Parlor Chantilly .  (I helped a little.)  We had about twelve designers and a...

As I mentioned in a post on May 8, there will be an  UnPub Mini  event this  Saturday 21 June  at Game Parlor 13936 Metrotech Drive Ch...

Designers and boardgamers in the northern Virginia area, mark your calendars:   Saturday 21 June will be an UnPub Mini event at Game Par...

Publishers' Panel Sunday of UnPub 4 opened with a pancake breakfast sponsored by Eagle and Gryphon Games and a panel discussion feat...

"Great Heartland Dice Game" with Tiffany Bahnsen and Adam O'Brien (r.) Great Heartland Dice Game I was tremendously plea...

I spent Martin Luther King weekend at UnPub 4 , the fourth annual unpublished games convention for designers in Magnolia, Delaware. Friday...

A number of my friends typically get together after work almost every Tuesday for gaming at our local game store, Game Parlor Chantilly.  I ...

Brewmasters Chris Kirkman (left) fermenting a concoction in "Brewmasters" by Ben Rosset (right) In the last prototype game t...

East India Company - Three-player playtest Ben Rosset (left) and Stephen Craig clearly enjoying the game playing excitement that is ...

Kevin Kulp (left) explains Pig Pen  to Jesse Catron (right) and another gamer at UnPub3 Pig Pen I first met designer Kevin Kulp at Co...

I have begun to catch up on my sleep, and now I will begin to catch up on my blogging with a series of posts on last weekend's UnPub 3...

Finishing up my after-action report on the Unpub ProtoZone event at Congress of Gamers . [Edit:  The "Dr. Wictz" design team has...

Tonight's post continues my accounts of games playtested in the Congress of Gamers designers room last weekend. Compounded T.C. ...

This weekend saw a two-day session of game design playtesting at the Congress of Gamers in Rockville, Maryland.  CoG was the venue for ...