Important: this product is no longer being supported. This post is essentially unchanged from when it was written in July 2020 for archival purposes (just with inactive links removed). Nalin Chuapetcharasopon has made a name for herself for some of her posts in...
For far too long, board games have been dominated by straight white men. For a bunch of reasons, I set out to find the voices and perspectives that weren’t white straight men… and there’s a ton of them out there. No list like this could ever be...
Officially available on Steam Early Release and elsewhere as of May 15th, 2020, Tabletop Playground seemed to come out of nowhere. Made by Modularity Games (“the creators of ModDB, IndieDB & mod.io”) and Plasticity Studios, it was announced to some...
So you’ve just finished playtesting a game. Whoever has won gets to play it up a bit, players begin to look at the rest of the cards, and then… …crickets… Experienced designers know this is the perfect time to begin asking questions, giving...
Tabletop Simulator is a powerful ‘sandbox’ program that makes it surprisingly easy to show off your game in a virtual space. It came out in 2015 following a successful Kickstarter, and has become the most popular way to play games virtually. There is a...