Great Saturday Spent at Cardstockawa!

Every year (sometimes more), Martin Éthier of the Game Artisans of Canada invites us all into the woods for a cottage weekend of board game design and testing we've come to call Cardstockawa! 

Got Two Games From Tasty Minstrel

I got a package from Tasty Minstrel Games today containing Coin Age and This Town Ain't Big Enough for the 2-4 of Us. Both of these games were part of a series of microgame Kickstarter campaigns that Tasty Minstrel ran a few months ago. 

Theme ≠ Setting

Game designs discussions, especially around board games, often round the corner of comparing the value of theme versus mechanisms. Well, I say we've been using the word "theme" wrong. I posit that what we really mean to say is setting, not theme. So, what's the difference?

Sword & Penguin Now Available For the Mac!

Calling all Mac users! Get your polar bear fighting, puzzle solving penguin fun right here!

Free Version of Sword & Penguin Now Available!

If you've been waiting to see what the fuss is about, you can now try out Sword & Penguin for FREE! This version includes 16 brand new levels, so even those of you who've already bought the full version can try something new in the free version!

Sword & Poker Loses a Little Something in Latest Facelift.

Sword & Poker VS Sword & Poker Adventures

Konami recently released the latest version of Sword & Poker to the App Store under the name Sword & Poker Adventures. The thing is, in "upgrading" the graphics, I feel the game has lost a lot of its charm from the previous two versions. I've said it many times before that the more you leave out of your artwork, the more iconic you make it, the less you give your viewer to dislike. By adding detail, I feel Sword & Power Adventures has strayed from the likeability of previous iterations into a melodramatic style that seems to take itself too seriously. So, in protest, I urge everyone to pick up Sword & Poker or Sword & Power 2 in protest! ^_^

Sword & Penguin Gameplay From iOS Gameplay Videos!

The fine folks from the iOS Gameplay Videos channel have posted over 7 minutes of footage from the first few levels of Sword & Penguin. Should give everyone a good idea of how the game is played!