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Another four-player playtest of Match Hatchery. I added a pretty cool mechanism, but I didn't execute it well. I wanted the 'Power Eggs' to happen more frequently, but they happened very rarely. The scoring was wildly unbalanced. Back to work!
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A game of Gizmos, but sized up to use ball pit balls.
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How long does a calm and patient person wait—after hearing nothing at all—to ask for a prototype back after a publisher requested it for review and consideration? What length of time would be excessively reasonable?
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I'm excited to announce that I've signed Twisted Trumpets with PlayToZGames!

No release date yet, and there are still a lot of details to finalize, but you can read more about how it came about in my latest newsletter here: museandmettle.activehosted.com/index.php?acti…

Match Hatchery 3.0 comin' atcha! Now with more dopamine!
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Another playtest of Match Hatchery in the books. It's a fine little game, but it still needs a lot of sanding. It's fun... but I just know that I can make it A BLAST with the right combination of tweaks.
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This book, published just last week, is available for purchase **or** is available for free online (scroll down to Open Access). #boardgames #gamedesign
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This is my new game, The Grey Goo, about nanobots and espionage. This has been A LOT of work for something that hasn't been playtested yet. This is definitely my most ambitious game yet. It feels so right, but I'm nervous about watching go down in flames.
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So I just threw together a golfing board game prototype for a system I'm going to use for a game I'm dreaming up and uh...

It's really good? Like I just played the courses I have doodled up and it was a lot of fun? What is happening?

I've been playing the cute and fluffy Forest Shuffle on BGA and getting absolutely slaughtered over and over. I can't win even once. I believe this qualifies as animal cruelty.
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