Today is the 5th anniversary of our #GamesForMusic #wiki.

How it started:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtbL0vLj2_0

How it's going:
http://musicgames.wikidot.com

For birthday gifts we accept "likes" on a quite outdated announcement video, or any suggestions for the future for the wiki. :)
Expect a few more toots about #G4M soon. ;)

#wikidot #creativeCommons #anniversary #musicGames #soundActivities #tabletopGameDesign #experimentalMusic

Drafting designs for cards, Swatch in the middle shows the 'suit' of the card. Wanting some way of representing adjacency bonuses so do I go 'simple' on the right, combinations of arrows in 8 directions, bonuses for matching cards of the same suit. Or 'complex' with cards having different combinations of coloured arrows in 4 directions denoting what suits grant bonuses?
#gamedesign #tabletopgamedesign

Videogames are very often focused on killing and crime, to the detriment of everything else ("If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail").

If you remove them, a wide design space opens up. You should try it.
#gamedev #gamedesign #tabletopgamedesign

"I simply can't bring myself to promote the emotion that killing is fun, that committing crimes is fun"

This quote from Toshihiro Nagoshi (the creator of the Yakuza game series) really resonates with me and my values.
#gamedev #gamedesign #tabletopgamedesign #ryugagotoku

Just sent a new version of Cortiça to the publisher. Exciting, I hope they like it!

#boardgamedesign #tabletopgamedesign #gamedesign #boardgame #gamedev #Cortiça #Portugal

Today I had a very fruitful playtest of Cortiça with @upbeattoast . Tried a couple changes and Sara suggested a fantastic new idea that has a lot of potential! Must playtest further.

Cortiça is a two player worker placement game in just 18 cards, about cork! The material, not the city.

#boardgamedesign #tabletopgamedesign #gamedesign #boardgame #gamedev #Cortiça #Portugal

A little early morning design work, in this case making prototype cards for Five Hundred Year Old Vampire by designer Jason Cox, a multiplayer version of Tim Hutchings Thousand Year Old Vampire that we have coming next year from CMich Press. These prototypes will be used at Pax Unplugged this weekend, hence why I am up so damn early. #TabletopGameDesign #TabletopWIP