Runika: Part 1 – Rules Overview
Runika Jones is a four-foot-five professional thief, mischief-maker and amateur runecaster. But one thing she isn’t, is stupid. So when
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Designer Diary
Deep in the Galbresian Mountains… something begins
In six weeks, Runika and the Six-sided Spellbooks launches on Kickstarter. This project has been in the works since before
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A Touch of Magic in 2019
Another year gone by, another incoming, and another time for reflection on the past and looking forward at what is
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How to Create Animated GIFs in GIMP
We’ve all seen amazing Kickstarter pages for board games that include incredible GIFs showing you exactly how to play the
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Luck vs Skill (Or why I like Ashes but not Destiny)
Luck vs skill is at the core of every board game. Purely skill-based games are often described as abstracts. You
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Good Habits for Game Designing
As designers, we can look beyond analogue board game design for lessons and inspiration. One of the nice side-effects of video
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Making Custom Dice
Yesterday, we received our first look at the custom dice that we are having made for Lucidity later this year. We
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Nightmares and Control: Design Diary
In Lucidity, players draw dice each turn from a bag, put two back, then roll and apply the rest. Bad things
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Prototyping 101
We go through a lot of game ideas here, which means we do a lot of prototyping. One of the
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Bright Dreams for 2017
Happy New Years, and thank you once again for everything last year! I hope that 2016 brought you fewer struggles
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