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Diced!
Hey, it’s our first prospective game design! Diced! is a fairly simple card game I distracted myself into existence while at work one day. I took a top down of approach of taking something I enjoy –in...
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Diced! template cards
We’re going to prototype this thing! So, naturally we had to get some stand-in artwork and cards together so we print the game and play it. Here are the results. Everything was designed in Adobe...
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Play, DOH! – Diced! (Part two)
Play, DOH! is a regular segment dedicated to the documentation of the design process surrounding each of the games we produce. “Diced!” is coming along and we’re making changes, refining mechanics and...
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Monday Afternoon Minutes!
Here’s what we did this week. 1. We all got together this weekend and signed the LLC papers. YAY! We’re almost totally legit. 2. We also filmed interviews for our upcoming submission to the Dyn Inc....
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Play D’oh!: Diced! (Part 3)
Over the weekend, not only did I get a chance to rub elbows with the prolific fantasy author George R.R. Martin, of “Game of Thrones” fame, at Boskone but I got another chance to play-test the latest...
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Monday Morning-ish Minutes: 4/8
We have been working our collective asses off this past week. Here! Have some minutes. 1. Glenn sent out several prototypes of SLASH to playtesters across the country. There will be a live broadcast...
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Tuesday Morning Minutes!
Happy post labor day grind! Lets get to it. 1. Glenn started building the list of retailer and distributor contacts in anticipation of our first release. The domain was renewed our Square reader was...
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Mob Rule! Design by Committee!
Having a bit of trouble deciding which design we should use for slash: romance without boundaries card backs. I’ve posted a few variants below, please vote in the poll and let us know which is your...
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Monday Morning Minutes: 10/14
It’s Monday, I stayed up all night watching kung-fu movies on Netflix: there are minutes. 1. Had good times at the Hudson Library and Manchester Library during our game days Saturday & Thursday...
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Making Fun: Lesson 1: Bits
wooden bits. love ‘em or GTFO. More and more of late the popular concept of a board game includes tons of tiny wooden doodads, bits or figures sprawled across a table. The days of a single pawn winding...
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Pack The Pack storyboards
Look! It’s storyboards for the “Pack The Pack” Kickstarter video. Per usual, it’s all preliminary stuff right now and I suck at drawing –deal with it– but the idea is that we focus on a lone traveler...
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Mechanics, theme & other?
Sexy Mechanics Today a wave of mechanics vs. theme seems to be crashing on the shores of gamer blogs, let’s not get left out. Games are like meals; the great ones are a balance of excellent...
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SRS BSNS (Serious Business)
For our upcoming Patreon “monthly” Game we are attempting something … different. We’ve been intrigued at the prospect of Serious Games. Titles like Brian Mayer’s Freedom or Brenda Brathewaite’s Train,...
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Wednesday Morning Minutes 5/21
oopsie! It’s Wednesday. Somebody made marimba metal, there are minutes. Things got done Had $3,500 in business checking at meeting time. Glenn brought Eat! That! Corpse! to the Brookline Booksmith...
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Bad Habit: Design Diary 5/26
front of cards Working on a serious game has been…interesting. (for prior discussion). I went into this knowing I wanted to make a game that explores the troubling nature of NSSI and the specific...
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Meg all over!
Meg! GPD Co-founder Meghan McGinley has recently been making the rounds to talk about our upcoming title Pack the Pack, her experiences designing games and how she has the unfortunate circumstance of...
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Pack the Pack: Design Diary 5/29– A Game Changer (?)
Check out these pictures of Pack the Pack’s evolution and you may notice that the early versions of the game look NOTHING like the game now. Seriously- take a look. Let me list the ways in which the...
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Pack The Pack – A Coming of Age Story
Games By Play Date’s upcoming game, Pack The Pack, has gone through one hell of a development process, from submitting it to Cards Against Humanity’s Table Top Deathmatch contest to prepping it for...
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Interview with Pack The Pack artist, David Bednar
The Pack The Pack Kickstarter is nigh and we thought it would be super cool if you guys met the artist, David Bednar. When GPD explained what they wanted, what was the first concept that came to mind?...
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Wednesday Morning Minutes! (6/11/15)
Glenn’s stuck in that movie “Cube” somewhere, so here are some minutes. • Meg has been all over the place being a kick-ass mouth piece for Pack The Pack. Lots of interviews inbound! • The Boston...
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