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Drey’s take on BGG.con

This is cross-posted from my blog:
I was in Dallas this past Thursday through Sunday for BoardGameGeek.con, a fantastic board gaming convention. It was a smaller, more laid back type of con than your GenCon or ComicCon, with perhaps only 700 attendees.
I cajoled Cory into going at the very last minute, so he, Nukes, Majcher and [...]

I’m here!

Hi everyone,
My name is Ian, and I live in Austin Texas. I have been designing role-playing games and then playing them with my friends for about 20 years now, and it has been a very fun hobby for me. However, I now have a new hobby; designing and playing board games (I still play RPG’s too).   
I have just [...]

Roll Call!

I’m Dan and am also an Austinite. I’m working on several board and card games right now. I’ve been playtesting a few of them off and on since last year. Some of my other designs are currently waiting on my magical back burner, while the unfortunate other ones are right in their design files still [...]

Is your name Michael Diamond?

Nah, mine’s Clarence.
Okay, it’s Emerson. I’m a designer living in the Bay Area, making a living on the webbernets. I’ve got some ideas for some juegos de computadora, but haven’t really gotten anything past the sketch-word-doc-fall-asleep-playing-sudoku-on-the-ds stage. Which is a long stage, let me tell you what.
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Sound off!

Hello, everyone.
I’m Mischa. I’m a transplanted New Orleans native now living in Austin, Texas. Game-wise, I’ve got two roleplaying games on my burners, and four board/card games and ideas on the back burners in various stages of development. I have a few ideas for computer games, but as I’m not a programmer, it’s likely not [...]

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to our little experiment in open-air game design. We’ve got a few games on the burner, and we figure that by thinking out loud and posting our progress to a public forum, we’ll both be encouraged to keep plugging away at things, and be albe to elicit feedback from each other, and [...]