HAITICON 2016 – CON FOR A GOOD CAUSE
Introduction by Luke Laurie: One of the coolest charity gaming events on the West Coast is Haiticon. Last year, coordinator Aaron Newman introduced us to the event in a guest post here…
Introduction by Luke Laurie: One of the coolest charity gaming events on the West Coast is Haiticon. Last year, coordinator Aaron Newman introduced us to the event in a guest post here…
Today I continue looking at the basic elements that make up tabletop games with Interaction. The previous articles can be found here: Goals, Scoring, Actions, Resources, Uncertainty, Space and Time, Acquisition, and Elimination. In my discussion on Actions, I…
Gearing up for Gen Con? Making a list for Metatopia? Before you hit the road, make sure you have the essentials. I don’t mean socks and underwear – oh no.…
Today on the League we have a guest post from Franklin Kenter. By day, Franklin is a math professor, having earned himself a PhD in Mathematics at UC San Diego.…
Doug Garrett, podcaster of Garrett’s Games and Geekiness, has been sitting down to discuss games with his wife, Shelley, since January 2006 for a staggering 522 episodes. His podcast was nominated…
It’s Friday! And nothing says Friday like a math problem! …okay, we’re just kidding. But it IS important for game designers to understand the math behind their games. A few…
Board Game Developers and Graphic Designers are a huge, often unrecognized, part of what makes all the games we play great. In this video I spend time talking about what…
If you follow the League of Gamemakers at all on Facebook, you probably know that we work very hard to keep our followers engaged with a steady stream of content. This is really…
Last summer I had the opportunity to work as the developer for SeaFall, a Legacy game from Rob Daviau and Plaid Hat Games that’s set in a fictional world in the dawn of the Age…
MIKE: Peter and I have shot ideas back and forth – we just need to get something together! I met Jason Kingsley earlier this year, and jived with the way he approaches game…