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Alan Paull plays Surprised Stare Games' new Pocket Campaigns board game War of the 3 Sanchos live on Streamyard, with commentary and Q&A by Dave Mortimer (the designer).

War of the 3 Sanchos introductory video for the Surprised Stare Games Gamefound campaign in July 2023

Describes how to set up the new Kingmaker II version of Kingmaker, published by Gibsons Games in March 2023.

My unboxing of the new Gibsons Games version of Kingmaker, 2023, for which I was the developer.

With Dr Lewis Pulsipher In which Lew and I have a deep-dive ramble about designing ‘the ideal introductory wargame’.

With Dr Lewis Pulsipher In which Lew and I continue our deep-dive ramble about designing ‘the ideal introductory wargame’.

At Spiel.digital, Alan Paull and Graeme Tate muse on this age-old question, in relation to board wargames. We defined what we meant by 'wargame', then looked at and chewed over some criteria that might be used to determine a 'good' one, using examples both old and new.

At Spiel.digital, Rob Harper and Alan Paull chat about how we convert ideas into practical game mechanics. We use as our main example our latest prototype of Snails & Grails, a weird medieval themed adventure game that we are designing with David J Mortimer.

At Spiel.digital, Alan Paull and Tony Boydell chat with famous designers Brett Gilbert and Matt Dunstan about the pluses and perils of co-designing games. Brett and Matt collaborated on, amongst other things, the award-winning Elysium (2015), and the recent game Chocolate Factory (with David Digby).

At Spiel.digital 2020, Bez Shahriari and Alan Paull talk about their different approaches to game design. We look at "doing what we want to do", design versus development, iteration and testing, amongst other things.

At Spiel.digital 2020, Tony and Alan chew the fat, then answer some questions about SSG and what each of us is doing.

At Spiel.digital, Alan Paull presents a live stream about the re-development of Kingmaker for Gibsons Games (to date). Aided by two notable playtesters, Mike Oliver and Peter Piggott, Alan explains the reasoning behind the current prototype of the classic 1974 board game, originally designed by Andrew McNeil. The session contains a look at the new short format game on Tabletopia. Mike and Peter...

Tony Boydell and Alan Paull start out on SSG's Spiel.digital live streaming. We are joined by surprise guests Michael Fox and Rob Harper.

A History of Surprises part 4

A History of Surprises part 3

A History of Surprises part 2

A History of Surprises part 1

The Ming Voyages 2-player from Virtually Expo live stream, by Alan Paull

March of Progress demo from Surprised Stare Games

March of Progress Unboxing

Ming Voyages Unboxing