Today, I’ve been thinking about my plans for 2023 and reflecting on some of the challenging times I experienced in 2022.

7 years ago, I was sitting in a room waiting for 3 people to turn up and play my brand-new board game. It was the first time I had ever playtested a physical game with people not involved in its development and I had no idea what to expect. These days my approach to playtesting is entirely different and I’d to share my 6 steps of testing.

Sometimes things go wrong, it doesn’t matter how much planning you do there is going to come a time where someone is unhappy, and you need to fix it!

For my latest Kickstarter I decided to run a 48-hour backer sale as a way for backers to buy my previous games. Let’s take a look at how it went.

Last month I discussed the quick digital demo that I had just released for Race to the Raft, with the idea of letting people get a taste of the game before having to make a purchase decision. It has now been live for a month, and I thought I would review the data so far.

Last week Stonemaier Games released their brand-new Nesting Box for Wingspan, a large luxury organiser and storage solution that sold out in the US within approximately 6.5 hours.