Portfolio

Guildlands

Ferrum’s Ford has been laid to waste. Choose your guild (Toll Collector, Merchant, Gardener, Wizard, Druid, City Watch) and harness your unique powers to rebuild the city and outmaneuver your rivals. Strategically lay tiles to rebuild roads, markets, gardens and defenses. Deploy workers to claim key locations, block opponents and control the flow of the city. Spend gold to gain extra actions and turn the tide in your favor. Will your guild rise to dominate the rebuilding of Ferrum’s Ford?

Fountains

Published by The OP: Fountains is a light strategy competitive tile-laying game where players become master Fountaineers working to build a magnificent fountain in the city of Florimelle. Using a rondel to draft fountain basins players build a 3D fountain. They fill it with beautiful fish and lilies all the while making sure that the water flows to as many pools as possible. Features are scored every time pieces on the roundel align with their starting positions. When the tiles run out the player with the highest score wins.

Shadow Ninjas

Published by Outset Media: Covert Ninja cats try to outwit the Shogun’s Samurai Guard Dogs in an attempt to devour his precious koi carp. Players either take on the roles of Stealthy Ninjas trying to infiltrate the mansion, or they can choose to be the Loyal Guards protecting the fishy treasure. Nerves of steal and a good poker face are needed to outsmart and outmanoeuvre your opponents. Don’t take your eyes off the board as it all could change in an instant in this cunning game of catch and concealment!

The Crooked Crown

Published by Cheatwell Games and co-designed with old friend Ken Boyter: The Goblin King is dead and the Crooked Crown is up for grabs! Will your diabolical deeds help you claim the crown for yourself? Use your card abilities to spy on or steal from other players. Once you have the crown, cast suspicion on others and bluff your way to victory. If you still have the crown in your grubby little hands at the end of the game, you are the rightful ruler of all goblins!

Psychobabble

Published by Cheatwell Games Psychobabble is a social deduction game in which one player is a psychotherapist trying to discover what shared dreams their patients suffering from mass hysteria have been having. The game uses large cards with surreal dreamlike images set out in a grid. The Patients all know which card they’re discussing but the psychotherapist does not. The problem is that one of the patients is genuinely insane and has been give the wrong card to talk about. This patient needs to remain anonymous to win the game.

IMPS Devilish Duels

Published by Triple Ace Games Imps Devilish Duels is a hybrid dice and card battle game for two players. Each player controls a team of four mischievous Imps, each of which has a skill based on their elemental alignment. To win, you must bring together the best combination of imps for your chosen strategy! A game of Imps tasks players to fight a series of elemental trials (Earth, Fire, Water & Air) using their dice scores in different ways to defeat each other.

Lost in R'lyeh

Published by Atlas Games Lost in R’lyeh is a classic Lovecraftian tale of cosmic horror and madness. Players are trapped in H.P. Lovecraft's short story, "The Call of Cthulhu". From the mysterious discovery of a profane idol, to dreams of a dark cult, to landfall in a cyclopean metropolis and Cthulhu's horrific emergence, no player can truly win...although the last player to escape will be the ultimate loser for that player will be forever lost in R'lyeh!

Cadaver

Originally published by Triple Ace Games but now re-booted by Cheatwell Games, Cadaver is a game in which players must use a variety of arcane resources to reanimate a series of cadavers before the light of dawn puts and end to their nights' reserrections. The player who has reserrected the best sets of corpses by dawn will win the game.

Ghost Hunter

Designed, kickstarted and self-published a series of five card games and accessories. The Ghost Hunter series are interoperable gothic horror card games. During the project’s run players were encouraged to help choose new ideas and art work for the subsequent decks, this fostered a unique sense of fanbase ownership and community around the series. The Ghost Hunter serise has been republished in a georgeous send edition by family favourites Cheatwell Games.

LocaliZed

LocaliZEd was published by Beast of War as an open-source print and play game after winning their Halloween games design contest. LocaliZED has players use a map of their hometown, or anywhere else they would like to try and survive a Zombie apocalypse, as the board. On this board a few key locations, church, school, police station are set and then players are given missions at random that force them to interact with these locations while Zombies quickly accumulate on the board.

Games in Development

As always, I am working all kinds of fun projects but the highlights right now are:

Whalefall is a rondel based drafting game which sees players using a variety of animals to to eat their way through the recently deposited whale carcass on the deep ocean floor.

Lighthouses is a cozy abstract game about guiding the right ships to the right dock. A beautiful looking game with a cloth bag that doubles as a board.

Snow-capped is a relaxed co-op about building the perfect mountain range vista, scoring points for different elements during each season.