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Blog postWow. A lot has happened recently…
Let’s start with the most frustrating. I missed out on a job opportunity because of the name of my little zombie game.
Now, I knew the name, Stranger Danger, didn’t sit well with people, but my thought process was it’d weed out the people who aren’t interested in my type of content. I get it. My stuff’s not for everyone. As I’ve said before, this little girl is surrounded by zombies who are, to her, strangers. Obviously zombies are dangerous, -
Blog postDead End is the game that started my Deadverse. Dead End is the game that I’m most excited about. It’s the game that I have always wanted to play, but couldn’t find. Until I made it.
Welllll, maybe not 2022. Probably January 2023. I’m extremely proud of this game, and the only reason I have t released it yet is because I want to get a bit more experience before I do. I created a micro card game called STRANGER DANGER that takes place during the events of Dead End, but that’s from the -
Blog postThere is a contest on The Game Crafter called the Word Up Challenge, in which designers such as myself are tasked with creating a… WORD game!
My contest entry is a 1-player game called Shock’d Dead.
Shock’d Dead takes place within my Deadverse, which is a connected universe of standalone games that have select mix-n-matchable components for increased variety and replayability.
In this particular game, my protagonist (a three-armed anti-hero named Bobby Butcher) took a -
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Blog postOriginally, my game was called “Game”, but I quickly decided that wasn’t good enough, so I changed it to “Word Game”…
Ok, so I didn’t have a good name in mind for quite some time, but I did have a play mechanic that I was excited about from very early on. That mechanic is the Verbalize puzzle where you rearrange dice. I was pretty much just sitting at the table with my oldest son trying to see if I could place six dice into sequential order without dropping any or altering the dice. T -
Blog postI designed my new game, Shock’d Dead, to be affordable, portable, and easy to set up and learn, while still offering layers of strategy. Though, to be frank, this is how I design most of my games, because it’s the type of game I like to buy. Simple as that.
An Image from Shock’d Dead’s Shop Page I have a tendency to design my games with Hook boxes, which open into T-shapes. This way I can utilize the inside of the box as instructions or a game board and reduce on the costs of manufact -
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