Occasionally I share news, novelties and game design insights, go here to check it out. And if you are interested in tabletop game design consider joining our Discord community of our Tabletop Game Design Guild -aka Spellenmaakgilde– in the Netherlands.

Some blog highlights:

• To be released in 2022 is GRUNN, a game in which you create your own landscape, while making your version of the province of Groningen. Read more about it here and about the design process.
• Insights in a ‘serious’ game Monster Problems, a game about poverty for kids, co-created with the municipality of Groningen and their Kids Council.
• A blog on the development of a creative rpg storytelling card game: Premise of Heroes
• Designer diary on my mafia bluffing game: Capo della Mafia.
• A blog about the game design podcasts I listen to: Design resources, hear hear!
• About pitching your game consider: Going to the Göttinger Game Design Convention
• A shout out to the SAZ International Game Designers association
• About play and playfulness which has great advantages in life and for learning

In 2019 I started interviewing tabletop industry professionals in the Netherlands and Europe, under the flag of the Spellenmaakgilde (Game Design Guild). Each participant offers a new perspective on the tabletop industry and their stories can be found here: Spellenmaakgilde Interviews. Currently there is less time for this, expect occasionally to have a new guest show up.