My recent Kickstarter broke $150K (1000% over my goal) and I attribute a lot of my success to marketing and advertising (Did I mention that I launched an hour before Gloomhaven’s 2nd printing? Oops!). A few things to note before … Continued
Today is the big day. After years of hard work, Maximum Apocalypse is finally live on Kickstarter! I’ve had a blast showing off this game at conventions over the past year and can’t wait to get the final product into backers … Continued
Yesterday I playtested (and won) one of the Nuclear Winter missions that I’ve been working on. Nuclear Winter introduces a poison mechanic due to radiation etc. so as poison builds up you’re losing health every turn until you can find an … Continued
Last night we received word that Brass Empire is completely sold out through HitPointSales. That means their warehouse is empty and that the last few copies of the first edition are the ones that I have sitting in my garage … Continued
Maximum Apocalypse was accepted into the tabletop showcase at MagFest in National Harbor, MD! Folks will be able to demo the game Thursday Jan 5 thru Saturday Jan 7th. I recently designed and ordered some promotional postcards for all the upcoming … Continued
This past weekend I attended Metatopia and got in 3 awesome playtests of Maximum Apocalypse. The game certainly worked as-is but because Metatopia is focused so much on game design, I got a lot of great feedback and was able to … Continued
Check out this video preview of our upcoming cooperative roguelike board game, Maximum Apocalypse. Maximum Apocalypse is a cooperative roguelike board game where a group of survivors attempts to survive one of many apocalyptic scenarios. Players choose a survivor class … Continued
I am officially catching up and getting back to designing and business-y things after some busy weeks at some amazing conventions. First up was PAX West (previously known as Prime) in Seattle. It was my first time as a Tabletop Co-op … Continued
In my last post, I talked about some of the survivor classes in the game. Each survivor has their own unique deck of actions and equipment. I thought it would be fun to talk a little bit about the anatomy … Continued
There are currently 4 survivor classes (with more that I’m working on) in the current prototype: 1. The Hunter – starts out completely defenseless but has the ability to scout the landscape without triggering potentially harmful events. Eventually her deck … Continued