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51 problems when designing a game

Feb 08, 2009 No Comments by

I wasn’t even going to watch it. I was happily cooking dinner watching an old baseball game when I decided to catch up on the score of the England v West Indies Test. Last time I checked, they had lost 2 early wickets, but it looked like the game would peter out to a draw. [...]

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Slow and steady…

May 11, 2008 No Comments by

Just a quick update while dinner is cooking…I’ve spent the past week or so really ripping through a lot of my “quick and dirty” 20/20 game. It’s been a revelation just designing something that can be played in 90 minutes or so instead of trying to work out how to create a board game version [...]

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A 20/20 cricket board game?

Apr 20, 2008 No Comments by

The Indian Premier League started this weekend and it’s great to see massive crowds enjoying the oddly named Kolkata Knight Riders open up some cans of industrial whoop A on anyone who comes near them. It struck me that this is probably the first time there is an opportunity to “card” a complete season of [...]

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Design Corner: Replay Cricket 001

Apr 05, 2008 No Comments

This is the first post in a series on a cricket game called Replay Cricket that I’ve been designing for the past 12 or so years – yes, you read that right ;-) 12 + years! Of course, it’s not as bad as it sounds. It’s something I usually only get to work on once [...]

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