Rage against the Machines at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution

Navigate the tumultuous history of the banana trade in Latin America.

Decision Space · Episode

In advance of the second wave of Penitent’s limited print run becoming available to preorder for Canada and Europe, I wanted to demo a teach-and-play session at the SD HistCon North event in Saint Pau...

Akar Bharadvaj is designer of the upcoming game Chalice of Poison about the Iran-Iraq War from GMT and the Zenobia Award-Winning Tyranny of Blood. We chat about both designs, the future of the Zenobia...

Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligence

Asymmetric Cooperative boardgame about building a city without cars.

The ‘Enlightenment,’ which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. That’s the most oft-quoted line from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, probably be…

Bowie is a game best suited for 3 to 4 players. Each player will play David Bowie, or more accurately, a persona of David Bowie. The object of the game is to achieve the greatest legacy of any Bowie a...

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Liz Davidson has co-designed Queen of Spies and the forthcoming Night Witches with David Thompson. She is also the Creative Director at Leder Games, but you may know her best for her work on her Bobby...

Penitent is a solitaire game where players take the role of Quaker reformers, tasked with designing a visionary American penitentiary in the early 19th century. Players will draw a floorplan for their...

In this final design diary installment for Penitent, I want to discuss agency and friction along with something seldom discussed in our industry: HOW the game is being made. The Gods Will Have Blood...