In the game industry, copyright, trademarks, and patents don’t work. We need something else. Recently, a federal court in Texas handed down a judgment that…

What makes a game worth more than a book or a movie? Humans like to get more bang for the buck. It’s just the way…

Semi-cooperative Games With the rise of cooperative games, where all the players work together to achieve a single goal, as in Shadows Over Camelot, it’s…

Many of you know that my other big hobby interest is mechanical puzzles, usually wooden monstrosities that take hours to put together. I design most…

A lot of things can be done wrong while writing rules. Some of them can be pretty damaging to the way your game is received….

Okay, first off, this article does not have the next big idea in gaming in it. I mean, it might be here, but only by…

Many of you will be thinking right now, “…but wait…isn’t artificial intelligence only used in computers?” Depends on your definition. AI, to me, is any…

Game theory is an interesting beast. Supposedly you can use it to solve any situation where intelligent people, given a number of strategies or decisions…

Wiz-War was, as far as I can remember, the first actual game that I tried to design. Since this was in 1983, I would have…

First and foremost, I am not a lawyer. Contract law is a beast, and if you’re unsure about the wording in a game contract, take…