Berlin Game Design

Advantages of Entering Competitions Game design competitions can be helpful in many ways, especially for the hobby designer (i.e. one that...

"Welcome to the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter," Drew Carey was famous for saying at the i...

I wrote in an earlier post on why I design games, but recently I took a moment to think about what motivates me to work on a particular des...

Because our weekly playtesting group at the Spielwiese is open to anyone to participate, either as a playtester or designer, we see all kin...

Michael and I hosting our 6th annual party in the Spielwiese .

I finally had a few minutes to finish my report from my second Essen boardgame fair.  In it, I describe what it's like to be a game d...