On Wargaming by Matt Caffrey, out at last!
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/newport-papers/43/ At long last On Wargaming, Matt Caffrey’s book on the history and uses of wargaming is out and freely available as a PDF at the above link....
View ArticleNights of Fire: almost here, I promise!
Now appearing, on David Turczi’s living room carpet: the first production copies of Nights of Fire, the Nights of Fire expansion kit with miniatures and extra cards, and the reprint of Days of Ire....
View ArticlePodcast: on Armchair Dragoons’ “Mentioned in Dispatches”, vol 2 ep 9
Recently I sat down with James Sterrett for an episode of Brant Guillory’s podcast “Mentioned in Dispatches.” The occasion was the recent release of Matt Caffrey’s new book On Wargaming On Wargaming by...
View ArticleBack from Consimworld Expo 2019
Here I am again, after another hot week in the desert! I can’t recall how many times I’ve been to CSWExpo, I think this might have been my tenth or something near that number. I always have a good...
View ArticleBrief Border Wars quad now available for pre-order!
Compass Games has just announced that my Brief Border Wars quad of games is available for pre-order! $52.00 US now, $69.00 later. https://www.compassgames.com/preorders/brief-border-wars.html I’ve made...
View ArticlePolitical Boardgames; Italian Rumbles
http://organisemagazine.org.uk/2019/07/23/the-boardgame-is-political-rbg/ Organise! magazine in the UK has published a short piece on radicalism and conflict in board games. Games cited include...
View ArticleChina’s War is up for P500!
Yes, now it can be told. Today GMT put China’s War up for P500, and the clock starts ticking… to what end I don’t know, because it will come when it comes, and that’s when it’s ready. $55.00 now,...
View ArticleThree philosophers on “difficult” board game topics
https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2019/08/21/playing-games-with-history-philosophers-on-the-ethics-of-historical-board-games Based on the interest aroused by Ken Draper’s New York Times article on...
View ArticleInterview with Harold Buchanan – part 2
https://soundcloud.com/harold-buchanan/podcast-22-an-interview-with-designer-brian-train-and-his-top-5-list-part-2-of-2 Continuing on from a week or two ago, part 2 of my long interview with Harold...
View ArticleNew free game: ZNO (District Commander module)
Since District Commander Maracas has been released in physical form by Hollandspiele, I am now offering for free print-and-play the module District Commander ZNO (Zone Nord Oranais). This time the...
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Obligatory end-of-year review, 2019
Well, another year has zipped by. A busy year too, though day job stuff dominated my busy: Game publishing January: Hollandspiele partnered with Second Chance Games to make copies of my games...
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Playing Oppression
The MIT GameLab is a combined game design program, research centre and development tank for games that explore the use of play in human development, education and communication. One topic of current...
View ArticleA Visit to DSTL
From Engineering and Technology magazine. Even better, the article was not illustrated with a picture of a game of RISK!...
View ArticleCOIN series games: how it’s done
Volko Ruhnke recently did an online lecture for the Georgetown University Wargame Society on “How to design a COIN series game”. It’s available on Youtube. Volko is an excellent teacher and speaker; I...
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“Affective Networks at Play” by Cole Wehrle
http://analoggamestudies.org/2016/05/affective-networks-at-play-catan-coin-and-the-quiet-year This is a brilliant article written for the Journal of Analog Game Studies in 2016, by the even more...
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Creative math
On the weekend someone asked on Facebook (a place where I am spending too much time, I’ll admit) about designers’ favourite methods of managing workflow or design projects generally. I answered that I...
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The Game Political
A very good piece on aspects of the current (and not so current) “keep politics out of my games” breast-beating, by Iain McAllister at the blog There Will Be Games....
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The Zenobia Award
Mentor. Signal boost for a worthy cause: the Zenobia Award. Rex Brynen is a better writer, speaker and when it comes down to it thinker than I am so I will quote from his announcement: “Historical...
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VCOW 2021: “Two Sides of the COIN”
I will be speaking at VCOW 2021: 1915-2000 (+0 GMT) Friday, February 5, 2021 via a Zoom meeting. This is what they tell me I’ll be doing for about 45 minutes: TWO SIDES OF THE COIN In this...
View ArticleConnections Online – Practical Game Design presentation on Youtube
Just a quick one… here is the link to the event on Youtube.
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