Battle Factory 101

11Dec08

Battle Factory is my newest prototype.  It’s a 2-hour economic game for 3-5 players, featuring perpetual war, lots of robots, and a brutal auction.
In the game, you and your opponents are companies who manufacture war robots, and sell them to various warring nations.  The idea is that you don’t care too much who you’re selling [...]

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Prolix 101

05Oct08

Prolix is my baby.
I’m a fairly literate guy.  I’m not afraid of multisyllaballatic words, I have a decent vocabulary, and I can write fairly well.
So why have I never gotten into word games?
I don’t enjoy Scrabble.  Never have.  The closest I came to was when my college buddy Jones and I played “Sounds Like” Scrabble, [...]

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