Alright kids, Hex (or John or whatever he’s going by today) is off doing some important Kickstarter stuff. Such important stuff that he was unable to do the blog, because, priorities I guess. So he interrupted my picking out the perfect shelf from Ikea, and got me writing this thing. Which is the obvious choice,… Continue reading Mat Takes Over
This past weekend, as I was preparing for the Kickstarter, I got a frantic call from my wife. She was driving out to see some friends when one of the rear tires started deflating – rapidly. She made it home and we were able to replace it with the spare without any issue. I made… Continue reading Emergency Tire
I don’t even need to say the old idiom at this point. You get it. In Kickstarter campaigns, however, it doesn’t always seem to be apparent that images make everything better. When research Kickstarters, I’m actually startled how many of them are waves of words that I’m skimming to get to the point. It’s not… Continue reading Kickstarter: Picture and a Thousand Words
Truth be told, I had trouble digging up the drive to write this particular blog. This week has been difficult at my day job, requiring me to work an extra day the last two weeks. I also have a kid and stay-at-home wife. With neither of us having family nearby, both of us have difficulty having… Continue reading Finding and Clinging on to Motivation
So almost two weeks ago, we released a teaser for our Kickstarter that’s going to come out early next week. We made this with no formal training in building a media campaign – only that we needed to launch the campaign with something. Our videographer (the talented Dave Mailey) already had our Kickstarter Pitch Video wrapped… Continue reading Building a Media Campaign – Part I
The creative process is a whole lot of trial and error. Even all the formal education in world will only give you concepts that you’ll still need to implement and see in action at some point. Sometimes, those high concepts click for you and you’re able to implement them, and sometimes it takes some work.… Continue reading Failing Safely
This past Saturday, I was one of the coordinators of an Unpub Mini in Orlando. It was a chance for developers to congregate and have their unpublished games test played to get feedback and fans. I teamed up with Aaron Holland and Coliseum of Comics and were able to actually showcase it at the Fashion Square… Continue reading Running Events
I’ve been meaning to launch this blog for a while now. Near the beginning of this year, my design partner, Mat Nicholson, and I started working on Screech Dragon Studios, which we have hopes will become a career for us of designing board games. I had previously been working on a card game for about… Continue reading Hello World
Screech Dragon Studios 