Design Blog

I don’t like to bash other games, but I recently played a new skirmish game and there was an aspect of it which irked me and I want to examine.

At BonesCon this year, I got a chance to sit down with Glenn Ford, from Man O’ Kent Games and Lee from Bleeped Up Productions to chat about A Billion Suns, Gaslands: Refuelled and Glenn’s game: SSO.

Red Alert! With Gaslands: Refuelled in the can, I am returning my full attention to A Billion Suns. Here’s the plan… Continue reading “T minus 12 weeks”

Okay, I admit it. The versioning system has gone a bit screwy, but I’ve made so many changes in the closed playlets group over the last month I lost track of the numbering. In order to provide a bit more context to the major changes in this release, I’m posting a blog post here. I might take this down after a while, or not… who can say. Continue reading “Version 37”

Maybe it’s because my car just died and I have to get a new one. Maybe it’s the excitement of it being the end of the year… Time to tear this game to pieces and build it anew!

I recently introduced a small rule that totally changed the game. Continue reading “Zones Of Control”

I recently took some time away from the design of A Billion Suns to focus on its setting. Oddly, doing this really helped boot the design of the game forward. Continue reading “Theme As Glue”

Here’s a list of games that I recognise as influences and touch-points for A Billion Suns Continue reading “Ludography”