2024 and 2025

2024 and 2025

Welcome to your monthly dose of insights! You’ve made it to the end of the year – the end of the wonderful week of whateverdaythisis – however you’ve enjoyed the time off from the usual routine, I hope it’s been a good one. Today’s email is all about...

No Black Friday Deals in this post

Welcome to your monthly occasional dose of insights! It’s been a minute… Where the heck you been, Chris?! I’ve been busy! Keeping up an email newsletter (even a monthly one) turned out to be one thing too many. I’m going to try and make more time for it (and writing...
A review of 2023, a look ahead, and a special offer

A review of 2023, a look ahead, and a special offer

Where the heck have you been, Chris? In a word: busy! Life comes at you fast. This one’s going to be a bit different, since we’re coming up on the end of the year and it’s been months since we last connected here. So, a bit of catchup via The Year In Review: One of my...
[#026] UKGE, making a great game, and more

[#026] UKGE, making a great game, and more

Welcome to your weekly dose of board game design!Yep, this one’s one day late. Let’s call this one the UK Games Expo edition – held last Friday to Sunday. This post will be short and sweet, but I’ll be writing a longer blog post about it later this...
[#025] adding theme to mechanics, shelving a game, and more

[#025] adding theme to mechanics, shelving a game, and more

Welcome to your weekly dose of board game design! UKGE is right around the corner, the sun is finally shining more consistently, I went on my first Parkrun (for the non-Brits, volunteer-organized 5K runs at local parks near you)… Life is good. A quick shoutout /...