A collab with and by artist Lorraine Fajardo, Curvy Cryptids Roller Jam is a real-time roller derby game grounded in the conceit that gender is drag. The delightfully absurd cryptid pin-up style artwork is great fun.
This game began when I offered a rough game concept, which Samphire promptly turned into a solid first draft. I helped craft that game design into a complete manuscript and game mat, and published it via my company, MothSpire.
A two-player game contained in 18 cards. Engage in a romantic duel of wit, attempting to make the other person your valentine with your clever back-and-forth wordplay.
This business card social game is about inflicting creative projects on people you’re conversing with. It sprang from an idea I’d had long ago about encouraging other game designers to take a snippet of conversation, use it as a title, and get them to design a game to fit that title. This is basically still […]
This trick-taking was inspired by the world of the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. It features elemental suits that have unique abilities to affect a round of tricks. During the development it was picked up by another publisher and I developed three additional sets of card mechanics along their intended theme before the project was […]
My frequent collaboration partner Ryan approached me as a publisher to pick up this Kickstarter project that had gotten to be four years old and very overdue, to pick up the pieces and project manage it to completion. Over the course of two years, we rewrote the entire manuscript and substantially redesigned the game together. […]
Ported the language models for this skill from Amazon Alexa to Google Assistant