Tonight I played my third game of Viticulture in under a week. Viticulture is a game created by Jamey Stegmaier and Alan Stone, published by Stonemaier Games. This post isn't a review on that game, as there are far more qualified people who have already posted fantastic reviews all over the web. Instead, I wish to talk briefly on my experience(s) playing this game. I am in Kentucky visiting my friend Ian and doing some side work with him. It was also Lexington's annual board

I'm am very excited about today's post. Tonight, Nate joined me for another full playtest following changes I had been making over the past few weeks. The end results were very promising. My Champions: Brute, Priestess, Barbarian Nate's Champions: Fire Guard, Adept, Assassin Duration: 1:52 (under 2 hours, huzzah!) Rounds: 10 Victor: Nate w/ two Champions remaining: Fire Guard and Assassin Main Issue: A few tweaks need to be done on Champion abilities. Fire Guard's Shield Bash

If you are ever in need of some time to focus on your game idea, might I recommend taking a long flight across the Atlantic Ocean? I was in Paris last week, and during the 8+ hour flight my creative side was working overtime. I created a whole bunch of possible Champions and items. Some of them may just make it into the base game, the others I'll probably use as promos, stretch goals, and whatnot. What items and Champions are joining the struggle for Tundrus? You'll have to w

I'm getting ready to prototype some pieces for Glyph--specifically the dice. Today I went through and created a spreadsheet of all the current starting dice and item dice gains to see just how many dice would be needed for the game. What resulted was some great data that helped me to visualize how prevalent (and lacking) some of the dice were. Gold turned out to be way over-represented, so I went through and scratched a number of gold gaining item cards. On the flip-side, blu