Designing Gnolems – UK Redesign Competition 2015
A few weeks ago myself and the rest of the Tinkerbot crew attended the UK Games EXPO, the biggest hobby gaming event in Britain. Last year we had an absolute blast, including demonstrating a couple of games we’d entered into…
TT #17 – UK Games Expo Advice, XCOM Giveaway, Funky Dice & We Do a Video Review
1:50 – A transcript of our interview with John Coveyou for a deaf follower (Thanks Terrance) 3:00 – Banana Banana Banana 6:20 – Gino is betrayed by Bevan and Tony 7:15 – Tips and advice for the UK Games Expo 14:45…
[TRANSCRIPT] Talking Tinkerbots #16 – We’ve got chemistry with John Coveyou!
In episode 16 of our podcast we had a great discussion with game designer John Coveyou about how he successfully funded his 3rd Kickstarter campaign in under 24 hours. We were contacted by someone who was interested in knowing…
Chaos Unpub – Tinkerbot Review
Bevan’s Bit Last weekend myself and the rest of Tinkerbot Towers were lucky enough to attend a board and card game design event known as Chaos Unpub (check here for more details). We got the chance to meet many great…
TT #16 – We’ve got chemistry with John Coveyou!
The tinkerbots interview featured guest John Coveyou. John is a successful board game designer and kickstarter campaign runner! He shares with us some excellent insights into running a crowdfunding campaign as well as design tips so if you’re one day hoping to…
Are we about to ruin our board game with this idea?
Some of you may already know that the three of us are working on Ghostel. It’s Bevan’s design but Me and Tony are helping him out with development. We’re getting ready for the Kickstarter campaign and got onto the subject of this…
TT #15 – Exciting News and Interviews: Tabletop Day Special (Hi Steve!)
In episode 15 of Talking Tinkerbots: 0:24 – Finding Tony 1:02 – Follow-up: Luck in board games 5:08 – Why tweets are 140 characters 14:48 – Exciting news! 21:35 – Tabletop Day 25:10 – More things speeled wrong 26:25 –…
Tales from Wyrm Farm: Designing with the Kitchen Sink
Hi all! So this week’s post should be short and sweet, as we made a big announcement on the podcast regarding Ghostel, a board game we’re hoping to bring to the general public in the near future. I won’t repeat…
TT #14 – Luck in Board Games and a BIG SCARY Announcement
In episode 14 of Talking Tinkerbots: 1.00 – The best method ever for picking a topic 2:08 – Luck in Board Games 23:45 – Ghostel!
5th Street Games declares bankruptcy
So last week I got the sad news that 5th Street Games has had to file for Bankruptcy. As a big user of Kickstarter for funding their game production, this has led to several projects entering the zone of no fulfilment.…
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