Not the June Newsletter
Mark vs. Jason by Mark It’s crunch time. I’m in the throes of my continuing education program. The work school year is ending. I’m hopping on a redeye this...
All According to Plan
Membership Drive by Mark Time has been flying since the turn of the new year and the beginning of Season 2 of The Misplay. We've alluded to an episode about...
Marching to Gen Con
Two Roads by Mark If I had to describe our group's development in Tuckman’s terms, I’d say we’re in the storming phase. We’ve been working on Animal Kingdom...
The Future is Now! JK—It's Later!
Jumbled Up by Mark We’re a month into season two of The Misplay podcast. Given the change in scope and focus of the show, the behind-the-scenes process has...
New Year, New Misplays
Embracing Growth by Mark Looping back to a new year is often positioned as a moment to create New Year’s resolutions or approach the year with new...
December When?
Courage by Mark I’ve been thinking a lot about game rules—writing them, reading them, explaining them, and how they inevitably require more clarification...
Better Late Than November
Way Down in Kokomo by Jason One reason I kept dragging my feet on this newsletter is that it was already late, so I figured, “Why rush?” If I was going to...
Octopoly
Game Design Skill Tree by Mark Jason and I have run into this disagreement a couple of times now, both on and off the air. This week, Jason shared on the...
SepTimber Man
Speed Mission! by Jason Nothing I write today is permanent. I was really inspired by the Friendly Skeleton post that detailed their mission statement and the...
Augustcola
My Wish List by Mark When we send out the newsletter, we often take a retrospective look at what's happened over the past month. If you've been following...
Be-July-ed
Can I Expense Games? by Mark This June we really tried putting our noses to the grindstone with design work, playtesting, revising, and sharing what we’ve...
Junemanji!
We Can't Go Solo by Mark May has been a tricky month for all things Misplay. We've shared how heavy the load of the end of a school year becomes. By some...
Writer's Blockus
Passive Planner by Mark The last few months of work at The Misplay have had overarching themes. We have focused on participating in our local board game...
April and Allies
All About Feedback by Mark In February, we put a lot of effort into becoming more involved in our local gaming community. We studied how game-design,...
Terraforming March!
Play Biome! Save the World? by Mark Hello and welcome to The Misplay! We spent a lot of January laying the foundations for both the podcast and the...
Birdspan!
Perfectionist by Mark Hello and welcome to The Misplay newsletter. One of the things Jason and I have learned about the early steps of this project is that...