TL;DR I did some stuff and now I’m doing some more stuff. Can I turn stuff into cash? Buckle up. This is a long one. I’m Better Now If you have been following along, you will have taken note of the fear and nervousness that I expressed at the start of this adventure. I’m proud … What’s the Plan?
The following design diary was written by the designer of Pyrotechnics, Michael Byron Sprague. Hi, I’m Mike, and I’m the designer of the two-player resource-management dueling card game, Pyrotechnics. This is my first published design, and I’d like to share its journey from a pile of colored cards to the final form that’s now headed … Pyrotechnics: Design Diary
TL;DR All I want is money, fame, love, power and immortality. But for all the right reasons. Inspiration Last week, I watched a video by Simone Giertz in which she celebrates ten years as a YouTuber by talking to the audience about her decade while making a stained glass mosaic of one of her earliest … Defining Success
TL;DR Make fun games that are fun. Ready + AIM = Fire 🔥 For me build a business that is sustainable and achievable in the long run, I believe that I need to develop products that fulfill three principles: In order to take aim at this target, I’m going to try to outline a generalized … Board Game Design Ethos
TL;DR I don’t like marketing. But with some semantic acrobatics, I’ve tricked myself into liking it anyway. A tiny bit. It’s More Than Just a Stack of Bricks For 94% of my life, I believed (assumed) that a successful business was all about infrastructure. Have a product, a place to store it and a way … MaaS Marketing
TL;DR I made a plan, but then I deviated from that plan and regretted doing so. Then I deviated from the regret and decided that my bad ideas were—in fact—good ideas. The Good Bad Ideas In my last post, I bemoaned, “I have no idea what I’m doing!” and some of y’all came back with, … What’re We Doin’ Here, Anyway?
TL;DR I’ve started a board game publishing company, I have no idea what I’m doing, and you’re all coming with me. Seamonkey Business The Seahorse & The Hummingbird. It’s a company in every technical sense. I’ve filed all of the paperwork, it is an entity. And now I have it. Much like a dog that … OMG OMG OMG