Happy 2015… here is what I have been up to since my last blog post: Churchill If Churchill was a ship launching, we have hit the hull with a bottle of champagne and we are fitting it out. As I write this, I just sent Mark Simonitch the final counter corrections and all […]
Design Update from Mark Herman Read Post »
Designer BlogsBecause I pushed for and laid out most of the Resource Cards for Space Empires: Replicators, Jim Krohn asked me to do a write up on how they came about. When we were well into the design process for SE: Close Encounters, we got an email forwarded by GMT from David Ward with some ideas
Space Empires: Replicators Resource Cards Read Post »
Designer BlogsFor those of you who missed Part I of this article, you can find it here: Rendering Caesar’s COIN (Part I) Welcome back to our answers to your questions about how our design Falling Sky adapts the COIN Series’ game system, originally about modern insurgencies, to depict the Gallic revolts against Caesar in the late 50s BC.
Rendering Caesar’s COIN (Part II) Read Post »
Designer BlogsBack in 1989, before the “G”, “M”, and “T” had even officially formed a company, I was working on my first “real” (as opposed to all the extremely amateur efforts that violated my game tables during the college and early-professional years. MAN, I kinda wish I’d kept the one on Brice’s Crossroads!) game design, an
Silver Bayonet: The 25th Anniversary Edition Read Post »
Designer BlogsJim Krohn is the creator of our really cool 4X space game, Space Empires. In the expansions to SE, Jim has managed to give us a bunch of cool new additions and options without making the game unwieldy – a considerable design accomplishment. In this, Jim’s first article for InsideGMT, he takes us inside his
Adding the Replicators to Space Empires Read Post »
Designer BlogsThe first question a lot of people ask about Time of Crisis is, “How does it compare to other deckbuilding games?” This is something Wray and I thought about quite a bit throughout the development process. When we first conceived of the base design for Time of Crisis, deckbuilding was still a new mechanic on the
Time of Crisis Design Diary #2 Read Post »
Designer BlogsFor background, please reference the previous After Action Report of a play test of this exciting game: which is built on the game system pioneered by Mark McLauglin’s The Napoleonic Wars and refined with his GMT Wellington and Kutuzov designs. Whenever Greg, I, or one of our fine play-testers teach 7YW:FG to individuals, at a club
Summary Changes between 7YW:Frederick’s Gamble & The Napoleonic Wars Read Post »
Designer BlogsVolume VI of the COIN series will bring a number of changes to the system to apply the realities of combat, politics and economics in the eighteenth century. Each leader has a specific Brilliant Stroke card with capabilities that can be used by trumping an event card in play. The mechanism allows each
Brilliant Strokes in Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection Read Post »
Designer BlogsBefore GMT had announced Falling Sky as an upcoming COIN Series volume, a couple images of our prototype posted on GMT’s Instagram site spawned a Boardgamegeek thread  contending that application of the COIN Series system to ancient Roman warfare was an unwise and awkward mismatch – a square peg in a round hole. I was a bit amazed
Rendering Caesar’s COIN (Part I) Read Post »
Designer BlogsHitler’s Reich is World War Two in two+ hours – and sometimes less. One of the reasons this game plays so fast, once players become familiar with the rules, cards and their interplay on the map, is that all conflict in Hitler’s Reich is resolved through the play of cards. Each player has a designated War
Hitler’s Reich – The Event Decks: Broadening the Front in Hitler’s Reich Read Post »
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