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Thomas Cardwell

Designer Interview: Garth Avery

Garth Avery is a board game designer in Seattle, WA working on his LUCI-award-winning debut game, “Primordial Secrets”...

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Last-Minute Game Gift Guide

Supply-chain issues got you down? Feeling pigeonholed into not making cheesecake? Using either of those as excuses for why you, for the...

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The Cabin by the Sea: A Solo Card Game

Last week I participated in a fun game jam! For those unfamiliar, a game jam is usually a timed event where folks produce a game to match...

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Designer Interview: Courtney Shernan

Hi all; as a way to meet folks working on games, I decided to do some interviews of people I've met via playtesting. The first is with...

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Dragonflight 2021 Convention Recap

It's been a while! (Cue the cast of Critical Role). I've been up to many things over the past year, including more playtesting of my...

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Playtesting: Three Questions

So you want to make a game? (That question doesn't count toward my limit). Playtest early, playtest often, and make meaningful changes...

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Quarantine Games and Digging Deeper: In the Hall of the Mountain King

Of all the games we went through this week, I want to talk in a little more depth (pun intended) on In the Hall of the Mountain King...

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Motivation and the First Game

I'm back with my first weekly blog post! I'll be trying to publish every Monday with something – a game review, an update on games in...

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The Very Beginning

I'll be doing progress posts on games I'm working on, discussing game mechanics, writing regular board game reviews...

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