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Pyrates!
It's July, so that can only mean one thing in the Haught house hold.... the Boardgame Geek 2022 Solitaire PNP Contest is live! My son...
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Mike at SBS
Aug 1, 20218 min read
Designing a Game: Part 3 - Components
We started this journey with covering how I tackle the idea/research phase followed by the framework phase. This week I'm going to dive...
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Mike at SBS
Jul 19, 20217 min read
Designing a Game: Part 2 - The Framework
With research done and the core of the game scoped out, the next phase is to start digging into some high level mechanics to suss out the...
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Mike at SBS
Jul 10, 20214 min read
Designing a Game: Part 1 - The Core Fantasy
July marks the start of the 2021 Solitaire Print-and-Play Game Contest on Board Game Geek. Last year I entered my Ironclads game in a...
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Mike at SBS
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Lonely Cairn
Above: The early DIY-Lonely Cairn prototype In 1992 I was visiting my local library and checked out a brand new book called Buried in...
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Mike at SBS
Dec 8, 20202 min read
Bomber Boys
As an avid fan of aviation history, I first noticed this PNP game in July of this year, called Bomber Boys...
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Mike at SBS
Nov 15, 20201 min read
HMGS Round Table Interview
Huge thank you to Mitch Reed at NDNG for hosting me on the HMGS Round Table and letting me drag on a bit about Ironclads...
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Mike at SBS
May 30, 20201 min read
Unterseeboot
A few weeks ago, I was introduced to a free PNP game, called Unterseeboot...
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Mike at SBS
Feb 28, 20206 min read
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Designing Games
Ok, ok, ok... I know Kurt Vonnegut never designed games (to the best of my knowledge, anyway). But he was an exceptional author who knew...
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Mike at SBS
Nov 22, 20192 min read
Dreadnought: Mini
A few months ago I randomly bought a bag of second-hand pieces from the classic boardgame, Battleship. I wasn't quite sure to do with it...
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Mike at SBS
Feb 3, 20196 min read
DREAD NOUGHT
Strictly speaking 2017 ended in a bad place for me. The game project I was working on collapsed and the studio was dissolved just a few...
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