Category Archives: Game Design Theory

This gets increasingly Blue Sky, but what the heck. Might as well talk about it now, right? Once DreadBall is out, and assuming that we’ve sailed through the Kickstarter levels to get Season 2 out as well, we’ll have a … Continue reading →

Just for a change of pace, I’d like to talk about where I’d like to go with DreadBall in a design sense. Before I go further, let me say that none of this is carved in stone. The nearer stuff … Continue reading →

A couple of people have asked about this, so I’ll take it from the top. Firstly, how it looks in the “real” game that I have in my head, then in the board game.   Scoring Strikes in the Real … Continue reading →

DreadBall, like most games, involved a large number of people in its production. I’m happy to say that many of them are now floating round the net answering questions and explaining how things work, and while I am the designer … Continue reading →

    I want to take a step back from the detail of the dice and stats, and look today at a slightly bigger picture. You already know the overall picture of trying to win the game by scoring Strikes … Continue reading →

So now you know what stats and roles do and how armour fits in. Now we get to the meat of the game: the core dice mechanic. At the heart of the way actions are resolved is a single mechanic … Continue reading →

  Well I was going to talk about dice tonight, but I think I’ll do that tomorrow because I just remembered that I’d not really mentioned armour. I want to quickly describe this now as it works the same way … Continue reading →

Damn my intricate design! I’ve come back to add this to the start so please excuse the dishevelled look. Explaining one thing without mentioning another is really fiddly because things are all rather interlinked. Or perhaps I’ve just been sitting … Continue reading →