Wargame Design and Publishing
The first alpha playtest of Symphony of Destruction was held in Sandusky Ohio at Winterfest XXVI. Winterfest is our homefield in regard to wargaming conventions. The first volunteers willing to test our game were all friends, and they exercised extreme patience learning a completely new rules set which was essentially a chart driven structure. Greg, Todd and …
Verisimilitude vs. Playability. House ruling someone else’s game system is for amateurs, while designing and writing good, playable rules is for professionals. I’ve house ruled things over the years, mostly inside the Europa game series and to a much lesser extent OCS. I cannot claim to be a professional rules writer yet. My hope is …
Playing Operation Market Garden – Winter of 85/86 “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Many of the seeds which 10K Games grew from, were unknowingly planted four decades ago by a much younger me; a …