Fortress: Ameritrash Blog

I've been with Lunchtime Studio's for about a year now. I've been helping to design 'Lords of New York'. Before that I was a restaurant manager - most recently at Burger King.  So I was at ConnCon yesterday showing off our new game - 'Lords of New York'. A friend of mine came up to me and said "Well last I heard you were working for Burger King. How do you go from that to being a game designer?" I don't remember what I said. Something stupid probably. I was kind of shocked at the question. I'd...

After publication of HEARTS AND MINDS, KING PHILIP'S WAR, AND LEAPING LEMMINGS, this blog is in response to the many supportive gamers who want to know what else I have in the works. The phrase "Indulgent Wife Enterprises" is unreserved recognition for Jenny, my editor, my therapist and my biggest fan. Although she plays few games, without her, my games would be nothing but dreams. She is my sounding board and my muse.

Myes. All this in the box. It has been a long road getting to this point, but has finally come. The multi-year one man project to create a full on professional board game is complete. PHZ has been released- actually for a couple weeks now. My apologies, with the whole 'one man' thing and all a lot of time got eaten up actually packing up and shipping the pre-orders (thanks again guys), updating the website, and occasionally, occasionally, sleeping. If you want to read more about the actual description of the game,...

For the last few months renowned Discworld illustrator Stephen Player has been frantically been working on the images for Guards! Guards! A Discworld boardgame.   He has recently completed them and they are superb.  They are further enhanced as each character image is accompanied by a quote about that character from one of the Discworld books. In addition to the Discworld character images Stephen has also drawn four Dragon illustrations set to the backdrop of Ankh-Morpork and is finishing off with illustrating the item cards. The artwork to date can...

The one man project to make a game of the quality and scale of Fantasy Flight is almost here to ship! After 2 long years of hard work, long hours, and literally thousands of pieces of original artwork, the game's manufacture is completely and has been shipped to me a few days ago for the final step in its assembly. It's slated to arrive, no joke, April 1st.