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Jonathan
Aug 13, 20211 min read
Token (ism/ing?), The Quick & Easy Way!
A web based tool that simplifies making game tokens for your VTT.
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tj2geek
Aug 6, 20211 min read
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tj2geek
Aug 5, 20211 min read
Dungeon Scrawl: Dungeon Design Made Easy!
Helping making your dungeon creating a little easier.
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Jonathan
Aug 4, 20211 min read
Games-icons.net: Free Icons For Your Games
This site is a terrific resource and has over 4000 icons you can use for personal and commercial use, so long as you adhere to this...
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Jonathan
Aug 3, 20211 min read
Treaty Negotiation Simulator: A Role Playing Game for Learning About Treaty Making in Canada
Image: The Selkirk Concession (Treaty), 1812.
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Jonathan
Aug 1, 20211 min read
The Board Game Is The Thing: Trails and Overflow
Snakes & Ladders (Moksha Patam) is the inspiration for Trails & Overflow.
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Jonathan
Aug 1, 20211 min read
Wanna Make A Game?
https://www.crabfragmentlabs.com/In his introductory lecture, James Earnest of Crab Fragment Labs & Cheapass Games (Kill Dr. Lucky)...
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Jonathan
Jul 29, 20211 min read
Spreadsheets and InDesign, who knew?
A fun and informative YouTube series focusing on card and game design.
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Jonathan
Jul 28, 20211 min read
"Kotaku" calls out Chris Metzen
Chris, it's too little, too late.
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Jonathan
Jul 27, 20211 min read
A Modest Discussion Regarding Indie Board Games (& RPGs as Well)
Image: Avalon Hill's (pre-Hasbro acquisition) Tactics II, an introductory mainstream wargame.
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Jonathan
Jul 26, 20211 min read
It's not XXX it's Four-X Minus Two-X: The Erasure of Certain Colonial Practices in Eurogames
Image borrowed from Boardgamegeek. Original image uploaded by Erik El Roig.
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Jonathan
Jul 25, 20211 min read
It's July 2021 already? Where does the time go? Oh yeah, we wrote an article.
Greetings, It's been a while, approximately seven months since there has been a post on this site. Instead of trying to provide numerous,...
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NDNPlayers
Dec 11, 20201 min read
Nunami: an Inuit-designed board game has been released.
At NDNPlayers have been discussing and looking for board and card games that cannot be compartmentalized as being a "Eurogame", or...
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Jonathan
Dec 10, 20201 min read
A Fungus Among Us: Unity Fungus, Interactive Storytelling Software
Greetings all, its been a short while since our last post because of reasons... Unity Fungus is free and open source interactive...
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Jonathan
Nov 30, 20201 min read
Potlatch is now on Tabletop Simulator
For those who are unfamiliar with it, Tabletop Simulator (TTS) is a physics-based game engine where you can play board / card games. OK,...
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NDNPlayers
Nov 29, 20201 min read
One Page Rules
This is a bare-bones, designed to be tucked in the card box, or folded and kept with your print and play cards if you went that route. We...
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Jonathan
Nov 28, 20201 min read
Podcast Episode: Economics in Game Design
Recorded in September, and posted in November. Who says we're not timely? Subscribe, or you can listen to it here.
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NDNPlayers
Nov 28, 20201 min read
Anchors Away!
We've moved from Soundcloud to Anchor.fm so update your podcast feeds. We're also on Mixcloud & we maintain an archive on, um, well,...
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NDNPlayers
Nov 28, 20201 min read
A Soft Reopening
Greetings, We've changed the look of the our site. We're adding a few new features, like this blog for example, and working on...
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