Feedback is something you get back in response to something you do. Feedback loops are constant responses to things that you constantly...

Are they? Well, they are and they aren't. I would rather say that playtesters are the question. Don't you love this type of answer? Let...

Isolated but not alone. At home for 4 weeks now. I have my wife and dog with me. I breathe the air outside on the balcony or 10-minute...

It's been a year since I wrote here, so I owe you a good one! I just came back from Essen Spiel and I must say it was a very positive...

I always count the number of actions a player does in a game I play or design. The number is so varied that it seems to me like there's...

Who doesn't like receiving a large package? No-one, that's who. But what does that have to do with game design? It's good that you ask! I...

No two designers are the same. This is true for any discipline you wish. Some designers are similar, some are on the spectrum of...

Oh boy, the last few have been a ride! I got engaged and got tons of work on games and at my day job. I had time to design but not write...

Oh yeah, I love poker. My favorite is Hold'em, how unoriginal of me, but I will also play Omaha and more. So I wanted to make a game that...

You always need to learn from other designers' work. Every game has something great in it. I wanted to share with you some of the...

Theme first, mechanisms first or the new trend in town - experience first. Let me tell you something, non of this gives me any idea of...

I don't have time to write this, I will do it anyway! Like most game designers, I have limited time to play, design and develop games. If...

Why should only designers and developers work? Let the players take some of the workload! We labor day in and night out to make games...

Everyone wants to be included, everyone wants to be a part, god forbid we are left out. Right? No. Not right. Don't get me wrong, in...

There's nothing I hate more than people shouting: "cult of the new!". Ok, there are many things I hate more, but this sentence made me...

The whole equals the sum of its parts, that's what they teach you in math. I stand by this notion in math, but in everything else...

Essen is the biggest convention for board gaming in the world. Not in every parameter, but it is in the parameter that matters to me -...

Oh hell no. I didn't think I will ever write a post like this one when I started this blog, but the day has come. A graphic design so bad...

Muse is a valuable thing, when you get that muse going you need to squeeze it until the last drops are out there. I think that every time...

Who are you indeed? This is one of the first questions any publisher would ask you when you are presenting them with a board game. Are...