Best practices for pitching your game – a 7 step process

Best practices for pitching your game – a 7 step process

After months of playtesting and lots of iterations, you’ve built a game that’s fun, stable, and at least a little different from what’s already out there (Well done by the way!). You’ve decided to pitch your game to a publisher (as opposed to...
23 Things I Wish I Knew About Game Design When I Started

23 Things I Wish I Knew About Game Design When I Started

Has it really been over 4 years? I showed my first design in late 2016 to some gamers in Florida… and man that feels like forever ago… A big shoutout to the Board Game Design Lab community on Facebook for starting this conversation. Some of these items...
April 2021 update: playtesting, updating, and more playtesting

April 2021 update: playtesting, updating, and more playtesting

Blogging used to really come natural to me, and I’m sorry to say I haven’t always had that urge to write. I’m definitely still active on Facebook and Discord in the various board game groups, of course… Where is Chris now? We moved to Belgrade,...
February 2021 update: playtesting, consulting, and refining

February 2021 update: playtesting, consulting, and refining

A little updating to the website, a lot of playtesting, some consulting for other designers… all in all, a fairly busy month. Where is Chris now? Chris is still in Warsaw, Poland – this is by far the longest I’ve been in one place for awhile....