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New Designs – Mycelia

Check out the first stages of our latest game design, Mycelia, which is about building a network of mycelium to encourage mushrooms to grow.

October 19, 2022

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!

October 8, 2022

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!

October 6, 2022

Intertidal Survival – the next prototype

From the very initial concept of the game, Intertidal Survival was meant to have a physical resemblance to a rockpool. This is how we’re going so far.

September 8, 2022

Reflections on Transparency

My friend and fellow game designer Bez told people why they shouldn’t back her Kickstarter, and it made me uncomfortable. I try to make a bit of sense of it here.

September 6, 2022

Short Circuit – getting the buzz going

The first game George and I ever designed together was based on an idea I had about electronic circuits. We played a few variations on the original game, then literally and figuratively shelved it. Now, years later and with a lot more game design experience under our belts, we are reworking it. First of all,…

June 26, 2022

Intertidal Survival – Characters

When I came up with the concept for my “rockpool” game, I imagined that everyone was playing as a crab, but I very quickly decided that I needed multiple species. Here are the top 6!

June 22, 2022

Any Other Name – Flower Cards

Flower cards are both the most important and the most difficult element of Any Other Name – here’s why!

December 19, 2020

Any Other Name – a tender seedling

I decided to expand a light-hearted joke into a fun family game. Here’s a bit about how it evolved!

December 15, 2020

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…

December 14, 2020