Ok all packed for CanCon!
I'm bringing:
🎲 Whale Rescue - co-op hand management game
🎲 Nine Queens - 2 player area control
🎲 Dress up game - point salad outfits!
🎲 Spectacle - co-op codesign with Joel Kennedy
🎲 Row your Boat - kids push your luck game
Let's test some games!
Feeling a bit num and very mortal at learning of the passing of Steve Dee of @tinstargames.bsky.social.
Steve was a pillar of the Australian board game and RPG design scene both creating so much and supporting so many people, he will be sorely missed. RIP.
Awoke this morning to discover my game A Walk on the Beach was selected as a finalist for the @buttonshy.bsky.social cosy game contest! What a surprise and great way to welcome in the new year. Congrats to all other finalists and submissions :)
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That's a good question, I've been making more family / gateway+ games which have been much faster to iterate. Primarily digital testing for the first half of a design saves tons of time physically prototyping, & doing more co-designs (4/12) to have a more finished product at pitch stage.
Just signed my 12th board game contract!
Currently have 2 games out of print, 2 released 2025, 3 releasing direct to retail 2026 + 3 to kickstarter in 2026, 1 direct to retail in 2027 and one direct to retail 2028!
Last day of @paxaus.bsky.social is kicking off in less than 2 hours! Come find me in Collabratory demoing Fragged Cosmos @fraggedempire.bsky.social
3 games in 3 days! I'll be demoing Fragged Cosmos at @paxaus #Collaboratory Friday arvo and Sunday morning! I have been working on this one for close to 3 years and we're nearing completion with crowdfunding by Fragged Empire RPG planned for 2026 #boardgames #prototype #design
Another day another #prototype ! One more game I am showing at #DevCon on Thursday - Salmon Run.
Using programmed movement, players move salmon up the river, and position their bears to hopefully eat them before others get to them!
#boardgames #design
First time in a few months to actually make a physical prototype - this one is: A Walk on the Beach - for the @buttonshy.bsky.social Cosy Game contest.
I will be testing it at #DevCon by #TGDA in the lead up to @paxaus.bsky.social
#boardgames #design #prototype
Great spot! I'll get a better photo for you, didn't even know they were doing it until I got my copies!
My shelf is growing - 6 of my released and upcoming games!
For my American friends, Sit Down will be running a Kickstarter campaign to bring Octocube to the American market - this is one of my earliest designs and one I'm very proud of - please follow along to see when it goes live!
Great day today working on Tiny Homes board game and Fragged Cosmos board game, both coming to Kickstarter in the next 12 months!
For people in Melbs @meepleuniversity.bsky.social is hosting the Tabletop Takeover at Big Games Night Out at Fed Square. They'll be playing a life size version of Octocube by @thearkangell.bsky.social This sounds so FUN! Oct 9, 4 pm til late.
www.biggamesnightout.com/tabletop-tak...
Well if this isn't exciting I don't know what is: my designer diary for Octocube is on the front page of @boardgamegeek.com! 🤩
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Day 4 of GenCon is about to begin! Crazy couple of days so far pitching, playing & buying games, and meeting lovely people!
About to board my flight to Indie, GenCon2025 here I come!
Of my released games I am most proud of the simplicity and depth in Under the Mango tree and it was great to go back through the past versions during the writing of the diary and see its progression 🦜
Deep Print Games has published my designer diary for Under the Mango Tree on their website where I go through my creative process and the changes that each element went through from idea to final game 🙂
A few days late, but I was invited to be in Meeple University's April Fools video this year 🤩 Come and join myself and other designers as you learn how to win every board game 😉
Welp, there's a @semicoop.bsky.social comic of one of my games 😶
Crowdfunding will probably be toward the end of the year :)
One project that I have been committing a substantial amount of time to over the last 3 years is Fragged Cosmos - a non-destructive legacy sandbox game based on the Fragged Empire RPG universe.
We are coming to the pointy end of the project with a crowdfunding hopefully toward the end of 2025
Great day meeting people, networking and demoing Octocube at the Melbourne Toy Fair. I even found a copy of my upcoming game Mythic Baths at the Good Games booth (coming Q3 2025) 😃
At the Australian Toy Fair today!
Always interesting to check out new products and latest trends in the retail space.
I'll be demoing my latest game Octocube at the VR Distribution booth later today too - if you're here come say hi!
Another play of Lord of the Rings Duel for Middle Earth.
Really enjoying it, I'm surprised how much just having a theme I'm invested in makes the game so much more engaging.
First game of Harmonies (that I was gifted for Christmas) great little thinky game. I just cracked 100 points. Very satisfying token arranging and lots of competing objectives.
It's interesting it gets compared to Cascadia as it is completely different in play and feel.
Had a great time playing through the first 4 chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring trick taking game.
Playing as the characters is great & the goals attached to them match their personalities & general intents well. Knowing the IP helps but to me it does feel like we are stepping through the story.
