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    Designing a Game: Part 3 - Components
    Mike at SBS
    • Jul 31, 2021
    • 8 min

    Designing a Game: Part 3 - Components

    We started this journey with covering how I tackle the idea/research phase followed by the framework phase. This week I'm going to dive...
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    Designing a Game: Part 2 - The Framework
    Mike at SBS
    • Jul 19, 2021
    • 7 min

    Designing a Game: Part 2 - The Framework

    With research done and the core of the game scoped out, the next phase is to start digging into some high level mechanics to suss out the...
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    Designing a Game: Part 1 - The Core Fantasy
    Mike at SBS
    • Jul 10, 2021
    • 4 min

    Designing a Game: Part 1 - The Core Fantasy

    July marks the start of the 2021 Solitaire Print-and-Play Game Contest on Board Game Geek. Last year I entered my Ironclads game in a...
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    Lonely Cairn
    Mike at SBS
    • Jan 30, 2021
    • 2 min

    Lonely Cairn

    Above: The early DIY-Lonely Cairn prototype In 1992 I was visiting my local library and checked out a brand new book called Buried in...
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    Bomber Boys
    Mike at SBS
    • Dec 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bomber Boys

    As an avid fan of aviation history, I first noticed this PNP game in July of this year, called Bomber Boys...
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    HMGS Round Table Interview
    Mike at SBS
    • Nov 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    HMGS Round Table Interview

    Huge thank you to Mitch Reed at NDNG for hosting me on the HMGS Round Table and letting me drag on a bit about Ironclads...
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    Unterseeboot
    Mike at SBS
    • May 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Unterseeboot

    A few weeks ago, I was introduced to a free PNP game, called Unterseeboot...
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    Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Designing Games
    Mike at SBS
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 6 min

    Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Designing Games

    Ok, ok, ok... I know Kurt Vonnegut never designed games (to the best of my knowledge, anyway). But he was an exceptional author who knew...
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    Dreadnought: Mini
    Mike at SBS
    • Nov 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    Dreadnought: Mini

    A few months ago I randomly bought a bag of second-hand pieces from the classic boardgame, Battleship. I wasn't quite sure to do with it...
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    DREAD NOUGHT
    Mike at SBS
    • Feb 3, 2019
    • 6 min

    DREAD NOUGHT

    Strictly speaking 2017 ended in a bad place for me. The game project I was working on collapsed and the studio was dissolved just a few...
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