My game We should talk is now on Kickstarter! This is a project I’ve been working on for about two years with a wonderful team of folks from around the world — I think it touches on super important themes, and it’s the kind of game I want to see more of in the industry. Your support today (and moving forward) would mean so much to us.

I recently had the opportunity to work with collaborator Mary McKenzie and playful hardware company Move38 to design “Paintbrush,” a game for the Blinks game system’s upcoming Community Set, now on Kickstarter.

After spending more than two years designing, iterating, fundraising, and publishing Pass the Buck: A Game of Corporate Responsibility Management, I’ve got a lot of experiences to share that I hope will help to prepare other aspiring indie tabletop game publishers for the lengthy and arduous process. This will largely be a financial and production retrospective rather than a design postmortem (which I may write up another time). I’ll be totally transparent about the risks, costs, mistakes, and financial projections of self-publishing my first small-run indie tabletop game, so if talking about money, profit margins, and stupid mistakes makes you squirm, it’s time to get over it.