Christine and I are travelling through Europe on our way to WordCamp Europe in Berlin. This week we are in Copenhagen, enjoying the weather and food. I’ve been experimenting a bit with the “Live Photos” feature on the iPhone and wanted to try sharing a batch of gifs created with that feature. I think they look keen. Kind of wish I could work with the team at Apple to make this feature even KEENER!
I’ve just released a small batch of shirts with the coolest graphic ever on them. Since many of you may enjoy using metal yo-yos, I thought you’d like the most metal yo-yo shirt ever!
I made a music video with the FaceApp app.
I’m still cranking away on my board game designs, but it’s been a while since I’ve shared the progress. The two games I’ve been focusing on the most are The Lonely Dungeon and One Dimensional Chess.
Luckily there’s no shortage of game design meetups in the city, so I’ve been getting plenty of great feedback and ideas lately. Here are some recent events:
The Lonely Dungeon is a single player dungeon crawler that I’ve been working on for a long time. During a recent playtest I decided to try a major rule change. I had been requiring players to engage with every new tile they encounter, but in this new version I decided to allow them to choose whether or not they want to engage with a new tile. I thought this change would break the game, but it worked out fantastically. In fact it fixed the key problem I had from most of my players and gave them the feeling of choice and control. Unfortunately you can’t make a change that big without needing to rebalance the game, which had been so finely balanced before.
One Dimensional Chess is one my most popular games and I believe it’s the best game for me to release first. So I’m working with Minusbaby, an NYC designer and musician, to create the perfect packaging for the game, then I’m going to release it on Kickstarter.
There’s also a prototype for 1D Chess on mobile phones, thanks to my friend Kurt Dekker.
ROM is my personal twist on the classic memory game. This design is pretty rock solid and super fun for families or groups of 4 or more. I’m considering the designing process complete on this now and I’m hoping to find a publisher for it.
