Building Community: San Francisco Board Game Designers
While most board games have just one designer’s name on the box, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of others who helped shape that game before it ever reached a store shelf. Back in 2018,…
Game Design
GDC 2026 Recap: Where Digital and Tabletop Game Design Meet
In 2021, I co-founded Golden Gate Gamemakers, a collective of tabletop designers in the San Francisco Bay Area. This year, we partnered with the Game Developers Conference to create an official space for tabletop design…
Boomtown Builders: Rules, Sell Sheet, Pitch Video, TTS Mod, and Tutorial
Boomtown Builders is currently being pitched to publishers. Contact me for a demo Watch the pitch video Watch a tutorial video Download the rules See the sell sheet Download the Tabletop Simulator (TTS) Mod Description…
Master the Surf and Stay Dry in “Waves Over Waikiki”
Doing a self playtest of my push your luck, hand management, and tile-laying prototype titled, “Waves Over Waikiki” for 2-4 players and lasts roughly 30 minutes. Set on a single day in 1960’s Waikiki Beach…
Bracket Busters / Hoop Madness
Each year tens of millions of Americans fill out brackets and enter in a NCAA college basketball March Madness pool at their office, with friends, or online. How do we port that fun and excitement…
The Board Games Below
So my partner and I bought a house in the Sunset District of San Francisco and it came with this little closet below the staircase. San Francisco homes are tiny, so you need to make…