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6 Feb 2023
Wizard Work, a card game I've developed with @chrisriddell50 for @betonmond, is now available to pre-order. It's a push-your-luck game about recruiting a team of wizards to meet the randomly-generated needs of fairytale clients. cyclingfish.bigcartel.com/pr…
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18 Aug 2022
Bottletops and fridge magnets and incomplete chess sets at the ready: Everything is a Game is out in the UK today. Written with @vivschwarz, it's a collection of 63 old and new games playable with things you probably already have in your house somewhere. hachette.co.uk/titles/vivian…
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8 Aug 2022
A book I wrote with @vivschwarz is out soon: rules for games that can be played entirely with household objects. A few classic parlour games and a lot of weird invented ones. Everything is a Game. Available on the 18th from wherever you get your books. hachette.co.uk/titles/vivian…
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20 Jun 2022
Write-up of a word game that I've been playing for a while: think of a word, then think of a way to navigate through all of its letters, where each move can be described by a word that starts with the letter that you're moving from. kevan.org/games/hackronym
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1 Dec 2021
My NaNoGenMo entry for 2021: a script to automatically convert Moby-Dick into a choose-your-own-adventure format. "To spit your last breath at thee, turn to page 710." kevan.org/nanogenmo/2021/
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20 Sep 2021
Here's a new fifteen-card print-and-play game I've been working on, about finding five- and six-letter words that fit into a randomly-dealt set of constraints. kevan.org/games/shrdlu
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16 Nov 2020
Launching a free print-and-play of a game design I've had rattling around for a while: describing a random word in terms of another, secret random word, while a rival team tries to work out what you're talking about. kevan.org/games/keyword
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Kevan Davis retweeted
3 Apr 2020
We're running Squaretown at the @nowplaythese games festival from today until Sunday; a print-and-play adaptation of the snaddering system where you can make your own board at home and combine it with other people's to build a whole town. Join in at nowplaythis.net/squaretown
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26 Mar 2020
Good to see this: Hide&Seek's Boardgame Remix Kit, which I worked on in 2010, is now available as a free PDF download, for anyone who wants better things to do with an old boardgame right now.
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Kevan Davis retweeted
3 Oct 2019
Board Games to Create and Play is out today in all good bookshops and at least one boardgame shop. #snaddering
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5 Sep 2019
Board Games To Create And Play, the game design doodle book I've made with @vivschwarz, is available to preorder. Add rules, doodles and household objects to a pad of blank boards to make games about anything. Out October 3rd from @PavilionBooks. pavilionbooks.com/book/board…
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4 Apr 2013
Brighton is in the grip of an independent coffee shop intensifier ray, and workmen are felling Victorian lampposts at the West Pier.
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26 Mar 2013
So would it be possible to make a terrifying Prince Rupert's Drop dessert with molten sugar, or would it crystallise differently?
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23 Mar 2013
Blocking a draught by putting a key in a door and hanging a scarf from it. This deserves a Babel fish.
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16 Mar 2013
The interval at a Barry Cryer gig, and nobody else in the audience is checking their phone.
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15 Mar 2013
So you can play Liar's Dice with banknote serial numbers, but the UK denominations make the stakes a bit high.
13 Mar 2013
Either a coincidence or the first wild sighting of weather-activated advertising, but an electronic ad on a bin has just made a "snow" pun.