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Oil and Rope Games. SO you want to game with your S.O? On Thursday, January 22, 2015. One of the biggest questions I see on /r/boardgames. By far is, What’s a good two-player game to play with my wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend? Finding willing participants can be one of the biggest hurdles of our hobby, and we naturally look to the people around us. Unfortunately, many of our significant others aren’t into board games they way we are. What’s a modern hobby gamer to do? Rule Number One: Keep It Simple.
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Oil and Rope Games. Design Workshop Wrapup 3/15/14. On Sunday, March 16, 2014. We had a great time with a small group at todays workshop. Heres a quick brain dump of the activities we did in order. An addictive little web game came across my radar this week: 2048. I played through a round or two of it while I shouldve been working, and it struck me that the mechanics were simple enough to replicate by hand, so at the beginning of the workshop, I worked up a quick paper prototype:. Working titles are alwa...
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Oil and Rope Games. Tech Talk at Big Nerd Ranch. On Friday, October 10, 2014. We were recently asked to speak at Big Nerd Ranch. About modern tabletop games and the state of the industry. It was a great opportunity to introduce other designers and developers to board games and our process of designing them which is heavily influenced by lean practices and user experience design. Sign up for more content like this. Sign up for announcements about new games, tools, and workshops! Design Games not Graphics.
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Oil and Rope Games. On Thursday, May 08, 2014. This weekend marks the beginning of Game Chef: an annual analog game design competition. Game Chef has been held annually for more than a decade, and it sees dozens of original games drafted every year. With its focus on multiple languages, access for the deaf and blind, peer judging, and strictly simplistic submission guidelines, I believe it is one of the most inclusive events out there. So what is Game Chef? Im glad you asked! Im glad you asked! Our game ...
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http://oilandrope.com/blog/20-paperize-template-support
Oil and Rope Games. On Monday, April 27, 2015. We learned: templates are a key feature. Weve collected a lot of feedback, and a lot of game designers want templates. Custom templates, even. But weve decided not to build that feature. Not right now, anyway. Because you dont really need custom templates, if youre prototyping correctly. Rule #1: Game design is easy to change; custom templates are not. If youre going to ship a game that runs smoothly, youre going to need to playtest early, and playtest often.
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Oil and Rope Games. Design Games not Graphics. On Friday, October 10, 2014. If you’ve spent any time designing games, or even just reading about the process, then you know game design thrives on one thing: iteration. All games, no matter how great, started off as a thought experiment of the designer, and how it came to fruition was testing it, tweaking it then testing again. Reduce your Chances for Failure. Designing Graphics is Hard. Work Smarter and Faster. Working in a spreadsheet has a few benefits&#...
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Oil and Rope Games. Game Prototyping Tip: Cheap Resource Cubes. On Friday, January 09, 2015. Looking for some of those lovely, colored, wooden cubes that are so popular in your favorite Eurogames? Need a bunch to prototype with, but dont want to break the bank? Read on for the skinny on some cheap cubes. The Magic Word: Learning Resources. Hit up your favorite search engine and type learning resource cubes. Fretting over your physical materials at such an early stage is folly! We experiment with processe...
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Oil and Rope Games. Game Chef Concept (Workshop Wrap-up, 5/10). On Monday, May 12, 2014. For this weeks workshop, we focused on Game Chef. None of us have ever competed in a game design competition before, so we started by reviewing the rules, past winners. Judging procedure, and of course, this years theme and ingredients! Game Chef features a theme and 4 ingredients that competitors are expected to incorporate into their designs. There is no book. In a world without books. Death Goes to the Prom. Come ...
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Oil and Rope Games. Board With Life creator Chris Bryan brings comedy to board gaming. On Friday, April 03, 2015. Chris Bryan was born and raised in Dallas, a city that has a population of about 1.2 million people with plenty of access to gaming, even if it isn’t known as a major city for the hobby. By the age of 7, he had found a group of friends to play Dungeons and Dragons with and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, tabletop gaming was a vital aspect of his life. That night [that I first played.
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Oil and Rope Games. On Thursday, February 20, 2014. A great motto to work by as a game designer. Extra Credits has an awesome game design series if you’ve never seen it. Sign up for more content like this. We experiment with processes and products on the frontier of game design, and share what we learn along the way. It's also the only way to get inside information on our rapid prototyping tool, code-named Paperize. Sign up for announcements about new games, tools, and workshops! Design Games not Graphics.
