So there's a game design I've been working on (and off) for the past year or so, called Jesters, where the basic idea is that each player is an indie jester working on the medieval entertainment scene. After a couple of early versions that didn't really work in playtests, the third main version worked reasonably well and drew some prototype requests from some small publishers who had read the rules. But the thing is, once I playtested that version, which was kind of a combination of worker placement, efficiency and area majority, I was thinking, yeah, there's...

I JUST CODED INFORMATION ON FRENCH POLITICIANS ALL FUCKING DAY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH      ...on the other hand, if you do find yourself in the Est circumscription of France on Saturday, please, please do us all a favor and vote PCF to get this comically ridiculous Frenchman into the EP.  He needs YOUR vote since he's way down on the list in 8th position.

Work is good, the weather is nice, and I get to go to Game Group tonight. Plus, I have a sitter, so the Man gets to come and play too. It's way more fun when we go together, because he makes me laugh, and he drives, so I get to have a beer at the pub down the street afterwards.   I was only 4 minutes late for work this morning. That's really good for me. My assignment that I thought was going to be a major pain - I just scratched the surface and discovered that it...

I just designed a new free print and play game for a contest on BGG. The contest is about designing a game that needs special dice and no other components (except for pen and paper to note scores or other stuff).  I wanted to create a game that built on the basic mechanic of rolling a bunch of dice, setting one or more aside and re-rolling, but instead of just getting points for the result, this result could be used as another element of the game, in this case, the available goods on each planet.  I'm...

One of the aspects of running an online store is packing and shipping orders to customers.  Now, generally we have to purchase the boxes from a wholesale supplier due to the variety of sizes of orders and games that we get.   However, we do get a ton of boxes and packing materials from our own distributors as well.  And its the reuse of those materials that are sometimes of concern. Packing materials are generally always reused (except the black trash bags that one distributor once used. I'm not sure what that was about).  Especially when we get...