dice – Fox Tale Games

FoxTaleGames 4 April 20194 April 2019 Background, Design, dice, Gameplay, Kickstarter, Runika

Runika: Part 2 – Asking for Help

The world of Runika is filled with bright students (that’s you!) and guiding professors. These professors are always willing to help you along on your studies, but you have to prove yourself to them first.

Designer Diary News Previews Rules Runika

FoxTaleGames 27 March 20191 April 2019 Background, Design, dice, Gameplay, Kickstarter, Runika

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

Designer Diary Uncategorized

FoxTaleGames 17 September 201821 September 2018 Design, dice, Facebook, Gameplay, Kickstarter, Photograph, Runika

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

Designer Diary

FoxTaleGames 28 May 2018 Ashes, By Order of the Queen, Design, Destiny, dice, Egyptian, Japanese, Lucidity, playtest, Tiger Crab Studios, X-Com

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

Lucidity

FoxTaleGames 9 October 2017 dice, Kickstarter, Kicktraq, Lucidity, playtest, Pledge Manager, print-and-play, Tabletopia, William Webb

Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares is funded!

The campaign for Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares has now drawn to a close. In the end, we blew right through our target in

Lucidity Previews

FoxTaleGames 21 June 2017 dice, Kickstarter, Lucidity, playtest, Tabletopia

Lucidity is live on Kickstarter now!

Lucidity: Six-sided Nightmares is a press-your-luck dice game of nightmares for 2 to 4 players that plays in around 20 minutes. If you

Designer Diary

FoxTaleGames 16 April 201719 May 2017 Design, Designer, dice, Gameplay, Instagram, Lucidity, playtest

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

Designer Diary Lucidity Previews

FoxTaleGames 8 March 20178 March 2017 Design, dice, Facebook, Icons, Lucidity, Photograph, playtest, Tabletopia

Making Custom Dice

Yesterday, we received our first look at the custom dice that we are having made for Lucidity later this year. We

Designer Diary Lucidity

FoxTaleGames 8 March 2017 Design, dice, Gameplay, Lucidity

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

Designer Diary Uncategorized

FoxTaleGames 23 January 201727 September 2018 Convention, Design, Designer, dice, Lucidity, playtest, print-and-play, Tabletopia

Prototyping 101

We go through a lot of game ideas here, which means we do a lot of prototyping. One of the