Games Design

Learning from Demoing

I’ve probably demoed Gaslands to two hundred people at this point. After demoing the game that many times, you get a…

Editing Wargames Rules

A common minor compliant from the community is that the Gaslands rulebook does…

Zones Of Control

I recently introduced a small rule that totally changed the game.

Movement Phase

Naval Gazing

In researching A Billion Suns, I came across this review of Naval Thunder on DriverThruRPG:

Collision Physics

Gaslands is a tabletop wargame in which heavily-armed vehicles career dangerous into either other, and high-speed collisions…

Playtesting Tabletop Games

Gaslands went through 18 months of playtesting before I handed it over to Osprey. Partly, this was because the…

Why Have Factions?

When I came to write Gaslands, I had just finished Hobgoblin.

How To Promote A New Game

My experiences as a digital product manager have given me plenty of exposure…

How Fluffy?

There are games that exist in an existing fictional property, such as Star Wars or Tolkien. There are games that exist in a historical…