Mike at SBS 7 days ago 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...
Mike at SBS Jul 10 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...
Mike at SBS Jan 30 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...
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...
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...
Mike at SBS May 30, 2020 1 min Unterseeboot A few weeks ago, I was introduced to a free PNP game, called Unterseeboot...
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...
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...
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...
