Starting game designers waste a lot of time trying to build reasonable-looking prototypes for their cards. I started to create some card templates to assist others. I’m making the card templates free. And, as I get the urge to make more, I’ll continue to grow the number of poker-sized card templates.
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In the world of Starving Artists, there aren’t a lot of possible actions: work, paint, and buy. But your choices and combinations of actions impact greatly your ability to survive and win the game. After numerous people asking how to win, I have compiled a list of strategies that have […]
Starving Artists is the award-winning, paint-by-cube survival game. You can back the game on Kickstarter beginning on April 19th!
There’s no magic system or formula for writing good rules for your games. Each game has its own quirks, its own vocabulary, its own gameplay. However, I’ve found that there is a general pattern to how you can think about rules. I’ll call it my recipe.
Isabelle was playing when she fell and hurt herself. She’ll be okay, but she needs your help to stop the bleeding and get rid of the germs. As Isabelle’s blood, you and your friends move through Isabelle’s circulatory system to heal her. But you also need to do everything else […]
With less than a week to go, I’ve entered Starving Artists in the survival contest at The Game Crafter. Starving Artists is a game for 2-4 players. It takes about 15 minutes per player to play. In Starving Artists, you are a painter trying to become famous. On your turns you gather your paints […]
I’m happy that my first contest entry, Tectonic, was a semi-finalist in The Game Crafter’s Sprue Challenge. While it didn’t make the finals, Tectonic was close. Tectonic pits one player against another to build a well-connected, stable continent that favors their capital. Buy Tectonic. Learn more about Tectonic.