Board Game Creation
I am a board game designer who is interested in creating experiences that are entertaining but challenging. Some of my games are intentionally accessible to a broad audience others are very specifically designed for the “heavy gamer” but all should create an entertaining experience. Thank you for stopping by to take a look. -Nick Meyer, […]
** Caveat – I am not a graphics person. What I say is from a game designer / Disaster Recovery / Computer Networking / Satellite Networking perspective *** CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (Black). So what? RGB stands for Red, Green, Blue…. again…. so what? Here is the very simple explain: […]
[Part 2 of 2] Play Testing – Hang On – Let’s Examine Prototyping More Play testing is the heart of game design. This may or may not be obvious but let me expand this a bit: Ideas are a dime a dozen. Brilliant ideas might be 15 cents a dozen – but are hardly worth […]
(I’ll get to part 2 of “From Thought to Game” – but first a Work-in Progress status report) The holidays can be very stressful time for some, and a joyous one for others. I sincerely hope that your time was restful and peaceful. Over the last two months I’ve made good progress, despite work demands […]
[Part 1 of 2] Play testing is crucial. That’s my point. LOTS of play testing. Ideas stay in “idealand” for a long time Let me explain this obvious thing – through my lens: I think up a game idea. I scribble the outline into my always handy Molskine or tap it into Evernote. The idea […]
Based on my dour prediction from the last post, I’m reminded that I sell myself short too often. I walked in to Crafter Con thinking that I had no games. I resolved to learn and play, making the best of things. Fortunately I arrived early. Of equal fortune, Jay Little interpreted the schedule the same […]
I’m a terrible blogger – as you can see by the frequency of the blog entries. However, at this point in time – based on the site stats – I’m most likely posting for a small group of bots based in China scanning the web for any weakness they can exploit. I console myself that […]
This is a miniature “How to” for folks that want to run Inkscape on their Apple OS X computer. I am assuming that you are running the latest OS X version. One other thing – with a heavy heart – I urge you to consider using something else, because it looks like the timer might […]