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My Sophomore Kickstarter: PNW Playing Cards
PNW Playing Cards! Well hello again. We really have to stop meeting like this—me, in the middle of a Kickstarter after a year of not...
Thomas Cardwell
Jan 92 min read
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Gameswell
Thank you to everyone who supported the Kickstarter! It means a lot to my wife and me to see so many people excited about the games and...
Thomas Cardwell
Apr 16, 20241 min read
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PNW Kickstarter is Live
My book of PNW-inspired card games is live on Kickstarter! Two years and over five hundred playtests went into this beautiful book, and...
Thomas Cardwell
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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PNW: Card Games Inspired by the Pacific Northwest
I've been hard at work on a new project over the past two years, and I'm thrilled to share it with you. I'll be launching a Kickstarter ...
Thomas Cardwell
Feb 9, 20244 min read
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Designer Interview: Favor
'Leigh Jones and Peter Norton are game designers in Seattle publishing their debut board game, a tile-placement adventure called Favor:...
Thomas Cardwell
Jul 13, 202311 min read
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Voxle.club and Updates
Hello! I'm back with some updates on games and a new website, Voxle.club. Voxle.club I've been doing some voice acting for fun, and kept...
Thomas Cardwell
Apr 23, 20233 min read
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Designer Interview: Garth Avery
Garth Avery is a board game designer in Seattle, WA working on his LUCI-award-winning debut game, “Primordial Secrets”...
Thomas Cardwell
Aug 15, 20229 min read
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Last-Minute Game Gift Guide
Supply-chain issues got you down? Feeling pigeonholed into not making cheesecake? Using either of those as excuses for why you, for the...
Thomas Cardwell
Dec 21, 20217 min read
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The Cabin by the Sea: A Solo Card Game
Last week I participated in a fun game jam! For those unfamiliar, a game jam is usually a timed event where folks produce a game to match...
Thomas Cardwell
Dec 7, 20214 min read
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Designer Interview: Courtney Shernan
Hi all; as a way to meet folks working on games, I decided to do some interviews of people I've met via playtesting. The first is with...
Thomas Cardwell
Nov 23, 202113 min read
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Dragonflight 2021 Convention Recap
It's been a while! (Cue the cast of Critical Role). I've been up to many things over the past year, including more playtesting of my...
Thomas Cardwell
Nov 8, 20213 min read
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Playtesting: Three Questions
So you want to make a game? (That question doesn't count toward my limit). Playtest early, playtest often, and make meaningful changes...
Thomas Cardwell
Oct 16, 20204 min read
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Quarantine Games and Digging Deeper: In the Hall of the Mountain King
Of all the games we went through this week, I want to talk in a little more depth (pun intended) on In the Hall of the Mountain King...
Thomas Cardwell
Sep 30, 20206 min read
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Motivation and the First Game
I'm back with my first weekly blog post! I'll be trying to publish every Monday with something – a game review, an update on games in...
Thomas Cardwell
Sep 21, 20203 min read
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The Very Beginning
I'll be doing progress posts on games I'm working on, discussing game mechanics, writing regular board game reviews...
Thomas Cardwell
Sep 17, 20201 min read
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