Mike at SBS
Pyrates!
It's July, so that can only mean one thing in the Haught house hold.... the Boardgame Geek 2022 Solitaire PNP Contest is live! My son...
Mike at SBS
- Aug 1, 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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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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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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Mike at SBS
- Jan 31, 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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Mike at SBS
- Dec 8, 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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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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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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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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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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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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