A MAZE

Yay! I've finished my first board game! The game was published and entered for the map builder design contest on The Game Crafter. It's very inspiring to finish a game, and I feel I've learned a lot for the continued development of Spooked Jellyfish. It's also daunting when you realize how much work is ahead. Spooked Jellyfish is a much larger project, but I'm looking forward to get back to it.

Here's the shop page for A Maze:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/a-maze

The rules document is free to download and can be found if you scroll down a bit on the shop page.

A Maze

Sidetracked

My main project Spooked Jellyfish has been on hold for a while. Late January I felt the inspiration building up, so I went to thegamecrafter.com to check out their new parts. There I found they're having a map builder game design contest and I couldn't help but getting ideas. So, now I'm working on an entry for the contest with a deadline on March 1. The game is called A MAZE and I've gotten really far. At the moment I'm concentrating on playtesting, finishing the rules, tweaking and polishing.

Just watched four friends playtest my game, really fun & interesting to see them think about tactics. :) twitter.com/ezchili/status…
— ez (@ezchili) February 9, 2013

Example of Play - On Being Wrong

Except the puppy analogy (wut?) - this was a really good read about game design, comparing it with science.

http://exampleofplay.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/on-being-wrong/

Flying Hydrozoans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velella

Rat Jellyfish

www.nature.com/news/artificial-jellyfish-built-from-rat-cells

Immortal Jellyfish

Can a jellyfish unlock the secret of immortality? nyti.ms/V3HbWM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 29, 2012

I'll go Office Space on my printer any second now

Time spent making a board game: brainstorming 10%, creating content 50%, playtesting 30%, fighting a printer 10%. #spookedjellyfish
— ez (@ezchili) November 12, 2012