We are super excited to announce that 2 of our members, Marcus and Jay, won 2 of the awards at this year’s Connecticut Festival of Indie Games (or, CT-FIG). Marcus’ game, Octochef, a game where 4 players combine to play as the titular, 8-tentacled, culinary mastermind, won the Best Family Game award! And Jay’s game, … [Read more…]
GMG members Rich and Jules just put a game up on Kickstarter, and it was fully funded in just a matter of hours! Penguin SLAP! is a fast, playfully-illustrated card game where players take on the role of penguins who love to slap each other with fish. It’s a last-penguin-standing-wins game for 2-4 players and … [Read more…]
We at GMG are beyond excited to announce that President Tim Blank’s upcoming game, Bumuntu, is the cover story of Game Trade Magazine issue #222! Bumuntu was originally playtested right here at the Game Maker’s Guild, and the article goes in-depth into the game’s mechanics and theme. You can read the full article at the … [Read more…]
Hey there! Jaime Barriga, head of Curation here. We’ve had so many games draw closer and closer to getting the coveted Game Makers Guild Seal of Approval, and I wanted to share the list of games that have made progress over the past few months. Received 3 nominations for the seal (phase 1) Comic Auction … [Read more…]
Launched just today, one of our member’s games is now live on Kickstarter. Darkness (by Taylor Hayward of Green Meadow Games) is a beautifully-illustrated, portable, strategy card game, where players are out to control the energies of relics and artifacts. It’s a 2-5 player game that takes 20-30 minutes, and it’s already 21% funded in … [Read more…]
Hey everyone! Curation officer Jaime here with some great curation news: Our new GMG Intensive Playtest event that happened on Feb 5th ended up being a great success. All the games that were present got a full set of players for the night, and designers were able to run through their game multiple times, receiving … [Read more…]
We are always excited to see games from our members go live on Kickstarter, and there’s still time to get in on these 2 games by our GMG members! Pigment (by Michael Epstein of Copper Frog Games) is a fast, elegant, portable worker-placement game where you are a renaissance painter gathering the pigments needed … [Read more…]
Welcome to our January Designer Spotlight! This month, we’re highlighting the design duo that makes up Cray Cray Games – Phil Cartagena and Joshua Degregorio. These two have been members of GMG for a few years and have designed a number of games, both published and soon-to-be! Their games include: Find It & Bind It Under Construction … [Read more…]
Welcome to our second Designer Spotlight! This month, we’re highlighting Don Mitchell, former GMG President, and GMG member since 2013. Don is part of Eye4Games, who have created three games: Clairvoyance AlakaSLAM Rise of the Robotariat How did you get into designing board games? I originally was interested in designing digital games (grew up playing … [Read more…]
Welcome to our first Designer Spotlight! Each month, we’ll interview a new GMG designer to give you an inside look into their design process, as well as give you some of their tips and tricks. First up is Tony Tran. Tony has been a member of GMG for about 1.5 years. Tony has three games … [Read more…]