Man OverBoard

Some time ago, the design team of Dr. Wictz and I started discussing the book Games of Strategy  by Dixit, Skeath, and Riley.  I wrote on ...

Playtesting is crucial to any successful design, but the tricky part has often been which feedback to accept and which to ignore. Keith Fe...

I have been thinking about the game theory construct for the share auction in Chicago Express (designer Harry Wu, publisher Queen ). The q...

There was a bit of a comparative discussion on Twitter among a few game designers about the use of spreadsheets. For my part, I find them ...

My friends and I played Axis & Allies: 1914 recently, and while I had fun, I was disappointed and irked about a fundamental design fla...

Almost two years ago, I recounted an initial foray into a collaborative design with Keith Ferguson. We have come a long way in those two ...

In this second post in a series exploring games of strategy (begun last month ), designers Aaron Honsowetz, Austin Smokowicz, and I explore ...

Over three years ago, I wrote about my effort to approach a simple three-player race game using game theory.  Economist and game designer ...