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Review: Meeple Marketing’s Game Designer Marketing Toolkit by Nalin Chuapetcharasopon

Review: Meeple Marketing’s Game Designer Marketing Toolkit by Nalin Chuapetcharasopon

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...
Finding diversity, new perspectives, and doing better in the board game community

Finding diversity, new perspectives, and doing better in the board game community

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...
Tabletop Playground Review: a Tabletop Simulator replacement, or a pretender to the table?

Tabletop Playground Review: a Tabletop Simulator replacement, or a pretender to the table?

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...
What To Do After The Playtest: 20 Playtesting Questions That Set Players Up To Give Great Answers

What To Do After The Playtest: 20 Playtesting Questions That Set Players Up To Give Great Answers

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 101: the Ultimate Guide for Absolute Beginners

Tabletop Simulator 101: the Ultimate Guide for Absolute Beginners

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...
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Hey there, I'm Chris Backe (rhymes with hockey). These are my games, and this is my story of making them.

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Pitch 500+ publishers the easy way

Tabletop Publishers is a curated database of over 500 publishers looking for games. Sort, search, and filter your way through the list so save tons of time on researching.

Print and play games, no assembly required

Shiny Pigeon Printables (formerly No Box Games) offers up print-at-home games that don't need any cutting, gluing, etc. Print the game off, grab a few things from around the house, and you're ready to play!