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‘Squirmish’ Crowd Sale This Week

August 17, 2016Jonathan H. Liu

‘Squirmish,’ the funny battle game of wacky creatures, is this week’s Crowd Sale title at The Game Crafter.

‘The Captain Is Dead Episode 2: Adrift’

April 20, 2015Jonathan H. Liu

So you repaired the Jump Core and escaped the hostile alien ship—but now you’re in an asteroid field. Some aliens managed to stow away and are now sabotaging the ship’s systems, and on top of that, an asteroid has knocked the Jump Core offline. Again. Welcome to ‘The Captain Is Dead,’ Episode 2: ‘Adrift.’

The Game Crafter’s Crowd Sales: A New Take on Crowdfunding

January 24, 2015April 10, 2019Jonathan H. Liu

If you are (or would like to be) a board game designer, there’s a really great website with a green logo that you should be aware of. And, no, I’m not talking about Kickstarter.

Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: The Captain Is Dead

June 25, 2014December 13, 2017Jonathan H. Liu2

The captain is dead, there’s an alien ship firing at us, and the jump core is offline. Let’s get that jump core repaired—but in the meantime, we need to keep hostile aliens from boarding us, and it’s probably a good idea to keep all our other systems online. The Captain Is Dead is a cooperative game for 2 to 7 players about running and maintaining a spaceship in the middle of a disaster.

11 Tabletop Games to Back on Kickstarter

January 29, 2014December 13, 2017Jonathan H. Liu5

There are so many great board games on Kickstarter right now that I can’t back them all. But here’s a list of several that I’ve been eyeing.

From Brainstorms to Boards: Using The Game Crafter to Polish Ideas

January 11, 2013December 13, 2017Kevin Makice

In December 2011, I fell asleep wondering how a three-person game of Roshambo would work. From the inspiration of BIG Night to the engineering of The Game Crafter, I was able to polish that idea into something I could put …

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