In May 2014 I was in the shower in my college apartment a week or two before graduation, thinking about card games and the books I’d been reading lately. While I was cleaning off I had an idea for the basic mechanics of a card game about fantasy heists with similar themes to the book […] Read more
I haven’t been posting much on this blog of late–most of my writing time has been going towards new games and books that I’m working on and hoping to publish, or towards writing updates to the Kickstarter backers of my first published board game, No Honor Among Thieves. Between those projects, and my new full-time job […] Read more
When I launched my Kickstarter campaign for No Honor Among Thieves, I promised a delivery date of May. At the time I though that was being overly pessimistic, and that I would probably deliver one or two months before that, and everyone would be all impressed. Guess what? It’s almost July now, and the game isn’t […] Read more
This month is mostly going to be waiting on the manufacturer for No Honor Among Thieves, so I figured I could spend that time working on something else. I’ve got a number of things I’ve been stirring up, but to make sure I’m on the right track I wanted to put up a survey to ask people […] Read more
In my previous post, I promised that I would write up something about art directing and dealing with freelancers. I’ve got all my illustrations for No Honor Among Thieves at this point, and am in the process of getting things sent to the manufacturer for them to do their part, so I figured now would be […] Read more
Back before launching the Kickstarter for No Honor Among Thieves, I posted a list of Kickstarter lessons that I had distilled from all the advice given to me before I ran my crowdfunding campaign. Now it’s been a few months since the campaign successfully funded, and I’m almost through the preproduction stage of actually manufacturing […] Read more
A month before launching my Kickstarter campaign, I had the opportunity to pitch my game company to investors and entrepreneurs at a shark tank-like event in my town called Road Pitch. I didn’t get any investment, but I did learn some lessons that I thought might help anyone else looking to try and walk that […] Read more
It’s taken two years to get to this point, and a number of delays, but I’ve finally got everything nailed down. No Honor Among Thieves is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. Check out the campaign here. Before I head back to feverishly attending to my new campaign, I’d like to take a moment to thank […] Read more
In preparation for the launch of the No Honor Among Thieves Kickstarter campaign, I’ve decided to hold a little raffle for subscribers to the newsletter. Everyone who is subscribed to the No Honor Among Thieves newsletter by the time the campaign launches will have a chance to win fabulous prizes, including: A free copy of […] Read more
I’ve been fascinated by crowdfunding, and Kickstarter in particular, for a while now. I’ve been attending panels at various conventions, studying successful and not-so-successful campaigns, and reading articles or blog posts about the subject for four or five years. Also, as you may have gathered from all the posts about it on my blog, for the […] Read more
