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  • MAGMA – rules, v1

    MAGMA – rules, v1

    Here’s my first version of the rules for Magma, which we are submitting to the Game Crafter lunchtime game challenge competition: MAGMA UNDER PRESSURE by Drayer ink Magma is a casual multi-player game about managing the pressure inside a volcano, trying to make it all hit the Main Chamber at once for the most explosive…

  • New Design – Bubble Net

    New Design – Bubble Net

    Bubble Net is a game about humpback whales bubble-net feeding – try to let as few fish escape as you can, you need to eat! This is the first prototype and test of the game. It went well!

  • Unboxing – October TGC order

    Unboxing – October TGC order

    Recently, both George and I ordered prototypes of our games from The Game Crafter, and there were bits that weren’t quite right – this is the story of the replacement parts!

  • The roundabout way to The Way Out is Through

    The roundabout way to The Way Out is Through

    Generally, here at Drayer Ink, Cat does the designing and George does the developing, but in the case of The Way Out Is Through, this is 100% George’s oeuvre – and here is the unboxing of his very first Game Crafter prototype!

  • The Plot Quickens – first look

    The Plot Quickens – first look

    We decided to create a game design together, from scratch. We called it “the Plot Quickens”. Here’s how it’s going!

  • Any Other Name – the roots

    Any Other Name – the roots

    Star-crossed Flowers I have another game in progress, and it’s called “Any Other Name”. This is, of course a reference to the often-quoted paraphrase of a Shakespearean quote, “a rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet”. It is extracted from a scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet argues that their family names…