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February 18, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

It’s been a busy week around here, and I’ve been unable to even sit down and post all of the exciting news that’s been happening.

The Game Crafter Hall of Fame Interview
On Monday, The Game Crafter launched my Hall of Fame interview. I’m honored to be a part of their Hall of Fame, along with Kevin Lanzing (designer of Flash Point: Fire Rescue), Matt Worden (designer of Jump Gate) and Alex Coulumbe (designer of The Rum Run). It’s great company to in, and it was fun answering some questions about my process and upcoming projects.

The interview can be seen here: http://news.thegamecrafter.com/post/17540304614/championland-inducted-into-hall-of-fame

Judging The Game Crafter’s Next Contest
This was a cool reward for winning the last contest.. I get to judge the next one! It’s definitely something that I’m really excited about and with the next theme being Role Playing Games, it should be very interesting.

The Game Crafter is pleased to announce the RPG Challenge! We want you to design a role-playing game in the form of a board or card game. It doesn’t matter whether you build a dungeon crawler like Descent, or more of a story telling game like Betrayal at House on the Hill, or a funny little card game like Munchkin; all that matters is that it takes the form of a role-playing game. It also doesn’t matter whether your game requires a game master, or if the adventure is random, or if there are predefined adventures.

The complete rules can be seen right here: http://news.thegamecrafter.com/post/16853473181/the-rpg-challenge-is-on

Try to submit a game. It’s going to be a lot of fun! I’ll be giving everyone feedback on their games.

Conventions 2012
I’ve made the decision to head out to as many conventions as possible this year. I’m still making all of the arrangements, but so far I will be at Gen Con, Origins, WBC, and Too Many Games. The solid information that I have is that I will be demoing some of my games at The Game Crafter’s booth at Gen Con on Saturday 8/19. Other than that, it’s all still a work in progress. But I’m super excited to get out there and meet everyone.

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NJ PA Board Game Alliance – February Game Day

February 18, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

Today, February 18th, Alex Strang and myself will be hosting the second NJPA Board Game Alliance Game Day of 2012. I’m bringing a handful of games that I own and love (7 Wonders, Quarriors) and I’m bringing 3 small games that I’m in the process of developing (Twisted Tails, Unidentified Falling Objects, and Die-mocracy). If it’s anything like last month, it’ll be a great time.

Here’s the info and the lineup for Saturday, February 18th. Read more

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Starts With Ends With – Twitter Mini-Review

February 14, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

Fellow game designer / programmer Aaron Chapin had some kinds words to say about the Starts With Ends With card game.

@jtagmire SWEW is a lot of fun. I took it with me on a family vacation, and my grand-uncle and I went head-to-head. It was pretty intense!

— Aaron Chapin (@achapin) February 14, 2012

It’s awesome to hear this, as Aaron is constantly putting out great games. There’s his X-Box live action puzzler Return All Robots, his fun little prototype strategy board game Hexcape, the epic battle game Warmage Battlegrounds, and now the super creative Global Game Jam 2012 creation Pathei Mathos. I’m always envious of Aaron’s projects and determination.

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Starts With Ends With is now available online

February 14, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

I finished up Starts With Ends With and launched it at The Game Crafter. The artwork is all new, but the game is mostly the same. It’s only $8.99, and the card quality is very nice. I’ll be ordering a handful of copies for upcoming events as well.

Here is the link to view or purchase the Starts With Ends With card game at The Game Crafter.
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/starts-with-ends-with

Box mockup! Who doesn't love box mockups?

If you’ve never heard of the game, here’s a quick rundown. It’s a word game that I created in 2008. Players get a starting letter and ending letter and must come up with the longest word using those letters. One point is scored for each letter in the word. I self-published the game in 2008 and created an iPhone / iPad version in 2011.

The self-published version can still be found, but I’ve been wanting to match the artwork to the app and fix a few small kinks in the graphic design. I also tweaked the rules for more player interaction, and added a quick start / travel ruleset for players on-the-go.

If you’re curious about the game but don’t want to drop the $9, there is the $1 iPhone/iPad app as well as a free lite version. Both only currently support single player, but give you a pretty good idea of the gameplay.

And finally, I’ve been working on some alternate rules and alternate play methods using just the base deck and some other simple components. I’m planning to release those rules here at Championland.net as they develop.

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All new Starts With Ends With card game!

February 10, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

I’m launching Starts With Ends With on The Game Crafter this weekend, but I wanted to refresh the art. I changed the colors up to match the iOS app, and I improved the cover art quite a bit. It’s a struggle to create art for a word game… but I feel like I’ve gotten a little better at it since 2008 when the game was first released.

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Kickstarter Board Game Night!

February 6, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

Saturday night we played 3 games that originated on Kickstarter, 2 of which are still going strong.

We started out with what we thought would be a light game of a print-and-play version of For The Win, then jumped right into a game of last year’s hugely successful Dice Hate Me game Carnival, and then closed the night by destroying each others crops in our pre-release version of Farmageddon.
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Game Store Showcase: The Compleat Strategist

February 4, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

The Compleat Strategist
580 Shoemaker Rd # 6
King of Prussia, PA 19406

http://www.thecompleatstrategist.com/

If you are ever in the King of Prussia, PA area, you MUST visit The Compleat Strategist. Actually, if you are ever within 30 miles of King of Prussia, PA, I would suggest taking the trip to this amazing game store. Read more

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2012 Global Game Jam: Day One Recap

January 31, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

This is part 1 of 3 of my experience at the 2012 Global Game Jam.

Over the weekend I attended my second Global Game Jam ever, and this time in was in my home state of South Jersey! About 20 minutes from home, it was close enough that I could go in and out throughout the weekend, but still have enough time to make some games. Read more

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Sandwich City Won First Place In The Game Crafter’s Resource Game Contest!

January 22, 2012 / JTagmire / 2 comments

I was shocked when A.J. Porfirio of Van Ryder Games sent me the following tweet:

Congratulations @jtagmire! Sandwich City wins TGC contest!

I actually thought it was a joke. The Golden Globes were on TV, and it was (my wife) Carolyn’s birthday.. so it was a very light and fun night. A joke like that would fit right in.

But it turns out it was true, and I couldn’t be more happy!

We haven’t talked too much about it before, so here is the history behind the game:

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Dominion iPad Improvements?

January 21, 2012 / JTagmire / No comments

Edit: This was just pointed out to me by Matt Sommer at Board Game Geek that it’s an unlicensed version. I probably should have realized that due to some of the layout issues and the rough multiplayer, but it does play very well. It almost feels like a live beta version.

I just saw that Dominion came out on iPhone and iPad, and played the iPad version first. Within about 10 seconds I had a few layout improvement ideas and made the following image. It’s hard to complain about a free app (and so far it’s been a lot of fun) but these were the things that I thought could be improved.

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