Gameplay – 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 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

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

Lucidity Rules

FoxTaleGames 14 December 201614 December 2016 dice, Facebook, Gameplay, Lucidity, print-and-play, Tabletopia

Play Darkly Dreaming Free!

Good news! We just added Darkly Dreaming to Tabletopia (an online virtual tabletop program). What does that mean for you?

Designer Diary Lucidity Rules

FoxTaleGames 8 December 201616 January 2017 Background, Design, dice, Gameplay, Lucidity, print-and-play

Darkly Dreaming: Deckbuilder to Dice Roller

Tamara trembled, hiding beneath her desk and holding her knees to her chest. She could hear the heavy breathing of

Designer Diary Tempest

FoxTaleGames 1 November 201616 January 2017 Convention, Designer, Egyptian, Gameplay, Kickstarter, Norse, Penny Arcade, print-and-play, Pui Che

Tempest at PAX Aus 2016

Wow, I can’t believe it’s almost been an entire year since the last PAX Australia (Penny Arcade Expo). That time

Designer Diary Rules Tempest

FoxTaleGames 31 August 201616 January 2017 Card Art, Deity, Design, Gameplay, India-Lee Crews, Norse, Shard, Tale, Tales

Experimenting with Research

In a previous post, I mentioned that I was experimenting with how adding cards to your deck (“researching”) would work in

Designer Diary

FoxTaleGames 16 August 201616 January 2017 Designer, Gameplay, Norse, Tales

Research: Focused or General?

One of the key concepts of Tempest is that everybody begins the game with the same resources and builds their deck during