I’m going to try this again. I know this looks like just another failed personal blog. Someone assumed it would be easy, tried it for a few posts, and then forgot about it. Not exactly true. I thought about it for a long time before I started the blog the first time. I knew it would take work and I had specific goals in mind. But then, just after I began, Yehuda Belinger, a very well established board game blogger, started up a game news website, Purple Pawn, and began recruiting for contributors. Perhaps not thinking that one through, I volunteered.
Purple Pawn is a fantastic site. Purple Pawn is a lot of fun. But Purple Pawn has also turned out to be a lot of work. And so, this personal game blog has been ignored. Now though, I’m getting the hang of the amateur journalism involved in that site, and the things I wanted to do with this one have been nagging at me again. So, I’m back.
I’ll see you in a couple of days with an update on where I am with the game design concepts…
The three game ideas I’ve been thinking about recently are:
But first some background that will help explain my interests and some of my design choices… Read the rest of this entry »
So this is my new blog. In fact, it’s my first blog, and thus, currently my only blog. My primary purpose for starting it is simple. Like many other gamers (table-top games, including board games, strategy games, Euro games, war games, and roleplaying games), I’ve had some ideas for new games swimming around inside my head for a while. But other than a few pages of handwritten notes on paper, I’ve not done anything concrete about them. I’m hoping that a design journal in the form of a blog will give me both structure and incentive for further developing these ideas. It’s not that I expect to publish any of the games, or certainly to make any money off of them. It’s just that I’d like to move some of these ideas from daydreams to reality.