The game ideas have really been flowing this past year! I have five games signed with publishers and many more games seeking publishers. Three recent ones I'm most excited about are Ringyō, Shades, and the Troubadeck.
New Games in 2024
Category: Charlie’s Games
New Kickstarter: The Troubadeck
My love of music, games, and drawing are all coming together in this new project I've been working on - The Troubadeck!
Birthday Update
Wednesday is my 37th birthday! It's been a fun year, and I wanted to share some highlights from year 36...
Charlie’s Top 10 Four Humours Cards
There are just a few hours left in the Kickstarter for my board game Four Humours, being published by Adam's Apple Games. One of the biggest treats of the entire process was working with the incredibly talented illustrator Shirley Gong to make these jumbo-sized location cards. I wanted to share an insider look at the progression of the game art, plus a list of my 10 favorite cards.
Four Humours is on Kickstarter!
Five years ago, I had the crazy idea to make a game based on the four humours theory of personality, in which your blood, bile, and phlegm influenced your temperament. I'm happy to announce that my game Four Humours is now on Kickstarter!
Four Humours: How to Give Personality to the Prisoner’s Dilemma
With my board game Four Humours launching on Kickstarter tomorrow, I thought I'd share a little behind-the-scenes "designer diary" about my game design process.
How to Create Meaning in Games
When making a board game, how do you turn meaningless objects into things that inspire laughter, cooperation, backstabbing, or even table flips? That's the subject of my talk at last night's International Game Developers Association Twin Cities meeting. I also talked about what I learned in designing and art directing my game Four Humours.
Dragon Insurance in the Finals of the Cardboard Edison Award
My board game Dragon Insurance made it to the finals of the Cardboard Edison Award! It's one of 16 finalist games out of 195 submissions. The judges will be playing these games in April, and I'll know the results soon after.
Marry Up: an 18-card game for 3 players
Button Shy Games hosts monthly challenges to design 18-card games. This month's challenge was to use 18 cards from a standard playing deck.
Playing cards don't offer much of a story to base a game on, but I latched on to the idea of the face card royalty. My game is Marry Up, a quick drafting game for 3 players where you're a matchmaker trying to form marriages and marry off your aces to the royal family.
Four Humours Featured in the Star Tribune
Star Tribune journalist Richard Chin wrote an excellent article about indie board games in Minnesota, and he included my game Four Humours. He also interviewed some other creative Twin Cities game designers/publishers, including Adam Rehberg of Adam's Apple Games (who's publishing Four Humours), Seppy Yoon of Fight in a Box, and Patrick Leder of Leder Games.