With great trepidation, I step into the fray known as “defining a megagame”. If you weren’t aware, it’s a pretty contentious subject – some believe they’re basically LARPs but from …

Boom! Fourth megagame run and second original megagame designed… challenge complete. Last Saturday, my high school megagame, Trope High, took place. If you’ve been reading my (sadly neglected) megagame design …

So apparently it’s going to be a thing now that we go abroad and do an escape room. At least, based on the fact that Tim and I went on …

True North Megagames have smashed their way onto the UK megagaming scene with their first game, Lights In The Sky, a spin-off of the classic Watch The Skies alien invasion …

Pirates are a popular megagame theme, and I approached my third swashbuckling megagame with a familiar excitement. Buccaneer is by John Sharp, the same person as The Pirate Republic, but …

Over the weekend I went to AireCon, an analog gaming convention held in Harrogate. Analog basically means (as far as I can tell) no computer games. The main focus is …

As I may have mentioned… I’m engaged! We’ve excitingly set a date for May 2020, and I’m stunned that it’s under a year and a half away. I’m both excited …

My first player game of 2019 was the Den of Wolves game be John Mizon of South West Megagames, run through Horizon Megagames. It’s been run a few times before, …

As you might expect, Tim and I have a bit of a soft spot for Escape Rooms. So when it came to working out what to do for Valentine’s Day, …

Now you’ve got your theme sorted, the next big task is turning it from the promising start for a book or script into an actual game. And for a game, …