Why does anyone build a world?

Essential questions to ask yourself about your game design

Sequencing in Wargames

A Wrong way to design a game, part 2

A Wrong way to design a game, part 1

Forest and Trees

Pre-firepower wargames

Target Audience

Should game rules include Strategy Playing Hints?

Discussion of Numbers and Probability, Part 2

Discussion of Numbers and Probability in Wargames, Part 1

Will being an expert game player help your game design?

Strategic (war)game Design: Maps

Level and Adventure Design: Wargame Scenarios

10 "Need to Knows" about protecting your Intellectual Property, part 2

10 "Need to Knows" about protecting IP (Intellectual Property), part 1

Strategy: Scalpel not Bludgeon

Children's Games (from an archery tournament?)

Writing Rules: Flowcharts and Lookup Tables

Game Hits, Virality, and Handling Success

Card game design: Hand size, Variable Hand Size Limits

Confusions of game design: game design vs game development

Important factors in warfare . . . and wargames?

Sequence of Play Rules Outline

Using someone else's IP (intellectual property)? Bad idea.

Peculiarities and special cases of RPG rules

Translations of your rules into other languages

Confusions of game design: providing context is not modeling

Maneuver and slaughter in grand tactical/operational wargames

Level/adventure design: Situations vs Specifics, Independence vs Hand-holding

Avatars of three types, contrasted with RPGs

Stages where a game design might be abandoned

Victory conditions in battle games

An aspiring game designer's goal: complete games

Need to Knows about Finding Information for Game Design

Generalship or Resource Management

Importance of a good game title

Originating levels/adventures

Leaders and Leadership (in warfare)

"Interrupted" Wars

Rules Writing: Drafts drafts drafts

Design, not Rote Learning

Peace Negotiations are Sometimes Destined to Fail

Two different approaches to design of historical games

Stages of Playtesting

Fallacies to avoid in game design

Origination of games

Russia's tradition of attritional warfare

Perfectionism in Game Design

Don't Make Me Think

Put How to Win up front for context

20 dollar words (in rules writing)

Catch up mechanisms and chance

Card Games: departing from the standard sequence of play

State of the Tabletop RPG Market

10 "need to knows" about world building

Encouraging alliances and betrayals in multisided games

Cards and tiles are fundamentally the same

Interrupt Cards in Games ("Instants")

Level and Adventure Design Dos and Don'ts. Part 2