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This guy and I are on the same wavelength! I’m constantly asking people what their game is promising in feedback sessions.

I’ve got a game where players make color groups with adjacent tiles. Most tiles are one color but the tiles with more than one color on them can rotate. I wanted to cut it for the longest time to streamline the game but that extra decision just kept things fresh.

It should be polished enough to pitch well. It doesn’t need to be a finished product but the promise of the game and potential as a product should be super clear.

Yep. I found that it was frequently a pacing problem. It’s fine for a stock to tank but it either needs to happen towards the end to be satisfying or have some kind of rubber banding effect if it’s something that needs to happen mid game.

They fill a very similar niche! But racing games come with enough other conventions to set them apart as a category. It’s kind of like how tricktaking is an auction format but is also so specialized in its conventions that it feels odd to call it that.

The garment worker mahjong game and a path building game that breaks a lot!

Looking forward to seeing you! I’ll try to get in playtest with you at the con! I’ll be at Unpub testing my stuff from 1:30-4:30 on Fri and Sat. When I’m not there your best bet is to check the KTBG/Burnt Island booth during expo hours.

I am up early and ready for PAXU. Who will I see there?

Beacon also makes sets of odd polyhedrals. But they’re pricey.

Koplow Games Individual White Alphabet Dice 30Mm D30 Koplow 30-sided Alphabet Die, approximately 30mm in size. This is a white dice with a lower case letter on each side, or a wild. Consonants are blue, Vowels are red, Y is purple, and wild is green. Great for alphabet recognition, or creating words from multiple dice. Grade K and up. Sold individually.

D13 is tough! You might look at D30s like these alphabet dice and simply repeat values if you can allow for wilds. www.amazon.ca/Koplow-Games...

The short answer is volume. You need enough games spaced out over time so the long tail economics of royalties can balance hits against flops to provide a living income. The other volume is how many copies a game is likely to sell-some genres have smaller market caps. Many games, big audiences.

We’re pinning down the exact wording but “Creative Graphic Designer” is floating around. I’m basically an in-house art and graphics guy.

It’s official! Today is my first day at Kids Table Board Gaming. We’re going to make so much cool stuff!

I’ve got those too!

It would dance and barf up cubes that eventually convert into honey.

Yeah! I like that.

Then maybe it wants to be different games about the same moment in history? The most interesting promise of an anthology is what its content has in common.

I like this concept a lot, but it feels like it would benefit from a flexible shared system (like COIN, etc) rather than a series of fully novel designs to thrive in an anthology format.

I just registered last week as well! See you there.

If I ever taught a game design course Dan’s critical theory on games would be required reading.

Yes! The way we use “Theme” to talk about how we style and set games frustrates the heck out of me because it mostly disregards what they are about and how we evoke that experience at the table. 🎲✂️

This is such a delightful homage!

I'm glad you liked it! I'm also tickled pink by you captured the art style in this strip.

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I’m real glad I pre-ordered it!

Hey! Rad. I’m also relatively new to the Toronto scene. Hit me up for board game playtesting sometime.

The unwritten rules one was a hard lesson about incentives.

Literally, the entire card.