It’s be a long summer from us here at Ironmark’s Megagame Research Division. After our summer open playtest we went back into the lab to make some final adjustments to play. Here’s a taste at some of the changes…
Hello Designers and Game Makers, We’ve all been here: the final stretch of a project, you spend all night finalizing your layout, spell checking, and “once-over-ing” every tiny detail. You press the upload button. After 45 minutes of status bar crawl you sigh in relief, its done. Then the next day you get an email…
We’re back! We’re wrapping up summer talking about what we played on our summer hiatus. That’s right, a whole episode that’s only Plays of the Week. Mike could barely contain himself. We talk Scythe, Food Chain Magnate, Liberty or Death and of course a few video games like Don’t Starve and Pokemon Go.
The time is near! TI6, The International DotA 2 Championships, is coming to a close and the tournament has already thrown many surprises at e-sports followers.
When I started designing games my ultimate goal was not publication, but rather to simply make a very polished “production quality” prototype that would be SO GOOD that it would become a staple of our rotation at weekly game meetups. I wanted people to play it just because it was as enjoyable as “real” published…
We can’t leave well enough alone with any of our games. So we’re talking about our favorite house rules and game mods. Special Guest Mike Gutman discusses his mod for the Star Trek Deck Building game. And in our Plays of the Week Elise talks about the unknowable in Truths Too Terrible, Brandon flys and…
Happy 4th of July Everyone! We thought it fitting on the day of our independence to have a short chat about our new American Revolution Megagame, The World Turned Upside Down! Expect a lot of Hamilton chat on this one too! Here’s the Shut Up & Sit Down Video we referenced: And if you want…
The game designers of The World Turned Upside Down, Brian & Stefan, chat about what makes The American Revolution so compelling and why it’s perfectly suited to be turned into a new megagame.
One of the most important images that any game needs is a flashy box photo. But if your game doesn’t exist yet, how do you make this absolutely necessary image? Answer: Adobe Illustrator!
How do you get all your expansions into a single box? What do you do when the insert that came with a game is terrible?
