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Oh, you wanna make bookmark games? DO IT!
Backbone SRD (or simply “Backbone”) is a system that you can use to create your own bookmark games. These are games meant to live on a bookmark and be paired with a book. While this implies that they should be small, once you consider that the book itself can be an extension of the game, or that the words on the page serve as seeds for the mechanics, then a lot more possibilities open up.
Available on Itch.io
Cover image is 'The Open Book' by J. Alden Weir, taken from the Smithsonian and used under a CC0 license. The Coven's Grimoire is a bookma
My new member-only game is out now! It's a bookmark game where you work together as a group to decode a book by leaving your individual marks and comments on it. You can check it out at the link above.
The Backbone SRD just updated to V1.02, which includes a better game sample, a completely reworked introduction, various rewritten passages, and a reorganized flow.
Thanks for all the great feedback so far! Keep it coming!
https://monkeyslunch.itch.io/backbone-srd
First Look - Undaunted: Normandy app on Steam
First Look - Undaunted: Normandy (Alpha) app on Steam by Bookmark Games @djackthompson @trevormbenjamin @OspreyGames
Undaunted: Normandy is a wargame/card game combination designed by the excellent designers David Thompson and Trevor Benjamin. It was published in 2019 by Osprey Games and I actually wrote about how excited I was when it was first announced. Then I never bought it. I think it was mostly the lack of opponents. During the pandemic lockdown, I went ahead and bought the second iteration, Undaunted:…
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Undaunted: Normandy coming to Steam Early Access
Undaunted: Normandy coming to Steam Early Access by Bookmark Games! @trevormbenjamin @djackthompson
Two posts in one day after my drought? Well, when I received this news in my inbox this morning, I knew I had to post today. Bookmark Games (developer of the wonderful Pavlov’s House solo boardgame app) have announced that they will be bringing the deckbuilding wargame Undaunted: Normandy to Steam and iOS devices (no announcement about Android yet?) Undaunted: Normandy uses deckbuilding…
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4 Years and Counting
4 Years and Counting - A blog retrospective. @gmtgames @KikiAimerito @playersaidblog @AsmodeeDigital @DanThurot @GirlsGameShelf @cliosboardgames @mk20336 @IncorrigiblePar
I sometimes lose track of when I started this blog. Over the weekend, I realized that Saturday was the 4-year anniversary, with my first post going out on March 13, 2017. It was a review of a wonderful little game called World’s Fair 1893, a game I still really like (though I haven’t played it in a while). This will be my 446th post and I have to say that it’s been an up and down four…
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App Review - Pavlov's House
App Review - Pavlov's House @danverssengames - App developed by Bookmark Games which doesn't appear to be on Twitter. Thanks to @playersaidblog for the help!
One genre of games I haven’t really gotten into, mainly because I haven’t had the opportunity, is solo gaming. There are many great-sounding solo wargames out there, but the idea of spending 2-3 hours playing a game on the table by myself just doesn’t suit my current situation. Yet when I learned that one of the acclaimed solo wargames, Pavlov’s House (especially acclaimed by Grant at the…
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