We’re teaming up with Blacklist Games to design Myth & Goal, a brand new fantasy sports game!
Details are sparse for now, but Adam and Brady from Blacklist spoke about it their SPIEL Digital video over the weekend (starting at 35:02):
Results of the Feline and Wildlife Rescue Game Jam are in!
Over the past week and a half, Sophie and I have been spending our evenings playing through the fourteen print-and-play games that were submitted for the Game Jam we recently ran. For anyone who’s out of the loop, game jams are a concept that (as far as I’m aware) started out in the world of video games, where people rush to create a playable game in a challengingly short space of time. They’ve since become a staple of the tabletop gaming community, and we decided to set one up to raise some money for Feline and Wildlife Rescue Nottingham.
Join us for a Game Jam - and help some Needy Cats!
ROBOT FIGHT CLUB, NEW INTERN, SUSHI DISCUSSIONS AND MORE
An Online Introduction to Tabletop Game Design
Hey folks! Just a quick blog post - you know how we’ve been running our Introduction to Tabletop Game Design courses? They’ve been really popular, but a load of people have been unable to attend because of time and/or space.
So, bowing to popular demand, we’ve decided to start running courses online as well!
Coming soon: Meeple Force!
We’ve recently been chatting to old buddy Jon from Wartorn Games, who we know from the days when we were all retail managers in London for Games Workshop. We bumped into Jon at Salute back in April, where he was running demos of a game that’s going to be hitting Kickstarter towards the end of this month: Meeple Force! We were immediately intrigued. It looked like a right laugh, a dexterity-based battle game with chunky pieces and gloriously retro artwork. Even if it hadn’t been designed by someone we knew, we’d have been interested – as it was, we were dead keen to help Jon spread the word, and we soon arranged for him to come and run us a demo here at the office.
Newbury & Hobbes: The Plot Thickens...
A while ago, we announced that we’re working on Newbury & Hobbes: The Curse of Menamhotep with talented author George Mann. For anyone who missed it, the game is based on George’s long-running series, The Newbury & Hobbes Investigations, but unlike a lot of the licensed games we’ve created in the past it will be a brand new chapter in the series! We’ve been working on the story with George, crafting something that works as a game in its own right but also ties into both his existing novels and the ones he’s planning for the future of the series. Working directly with an author on a game that’s set in their IP is a bit of a dream, and we’re having great fun with it!
An Introduction to Tabletop Game Design: Round 2!
Hey readers!
We’ve been busier than ever these past few months - to the point that we never had a chance to post up a retrospective of the Introduction to Tabletop Game Design courses that we ran from May to July! In short, they were a massive success. Each course sold out, and was an absolute pleasure to run. We had attendees from all over the UK, and even one who came all the way from France for all three - talk about dedication!
Needy Cat Newsletter Relaunch!
You may or may not have noticed that we have relaunched our Needy Cat Newsletter. We realised that we had SO MUCH STUFF to talk to you all about and we were struggling to get it all out through our social media channels. So, the obvious solution was to relaunch our newsletter and celebrate it with a giveaway!
