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When Should We Start Playing Board Games?

New Momentum

A personal reflection on game design, creative fatigue, and how a simple card game idea helped kick off the new year with fresh momentum.

Christmas Print-and-Play Picks: Games You Can Make at Home

Designing and Teaching How to Design

From teaching museum professionals to design educational games, to developing a music-playing children's game — a peek inside a busy game designer's world.

Training season

Behind the scenes of planning and delivering board game education workshops. Tips for training educators and professionals.

Spooky Fun at Home: A Free Halloween Print & Play Game

Free Halloween print-and-play game! Download, print, and enjoy spooky fun at home. Perfect for kids and families. Quick setup, engaging gameplay.

Seeking Challenges

We defined several developmental areas related to board gaming—one of them was: Seeking Challenges. Explore how games build resilience.

Game designer’s status update

I’m right in the middle of a submission — always stressful. At this stage there wouldn’t normally be much left for me to do as a designer, but this time...

Board Game Pedagogy – Focusing on Atypical Games

Board game pedagogy focusing on atypical games. Insights from a conference lecture on using unconventional games for educational purposes.

Spiel des Jahres – in my opinion

I wouldn’t say I don’t follow board game awards at all, but they don’t really define my relationship with board games—nor my buying habits. Of course,...

How many rulebooks can you write in a single day?

Can a game designer write five rulebooks in a single day? The challenge, the process, and lessons learned from an intensive writing session.

Collaborative Game Development

When I was invited by DIA to co-create a board game with children and young people, I had some apprehension. We had already worked on a game together with DIA,...