Takeaways from The Emerald Flame and best practices for Kickstarter before launch.

An overview of 6 unique narrative puzzle tabletop gaming experiences.

The 8th in a series of designer diaries about The Emerald Flame, focusing on puzzle inspiration.

A designer diary about making puzzles and improving user interaction in The Emerald Flame.

Sharing some of my prototyping process for The Emerald Flame, and an intro to some basic prototyping tools.

Another post about noteworthy digital puzzle games!

How do you keep your mind occupied while being stuck indoors? Here are some puzzles and games to play online!

I love making puzzles, but they mean a lot less without other people. How can we design to make games accessible for a broader audience?

I’ve written a couple posts about making puzzles before, but just as I try to learn new things and improve my work, there’s always more...

This third installment about the making The Emerald Flame is about the process of working with digital and analogue art.

A post about the hand-drawn art in the new PostCurious project.

Great games to whip out for holiday gatherings, and some stocking stuffers.

I’ve been working on a new game ever since The Tale of Ord was finished -- here's some insight into the process.

Recommendations for Tabletop Puzzle Games

Puzzle-Driven Games This is the third (and longest!) in the series about unique digital puzzle games, and is focused on puzzle-driven...

Solvability, clarity, and how to navigate user feedback.

Would you rather walk down a straight path, an open field, or something in between? In retrospect, I’ve preferred non-linear gameplay...

Are ciphers even puzzles? Well, not necessarily. Okay, okay, hear me out. If you get a piece of enciphered text along with a key to...

How do you challenge someone without making them want to bang their head against the wall? Balancing difficulty is a tricky thing,...

These questions, of course, have many answers, and I am not the first one to ask them. I write this both to continue discussion of the...