by Ellie Dix | Jun 20, 2020 | Board Game Design, Dark Imp Stuff, News
A Doughnut Dash Review We’re Not Wizards has reviewed Doughnut Dash… and it’s a great review. Here’s the summing up. “I like Doughnut Dash. I like Doughnut Dash a lot. I like how the game teaches directions and spacial awareness, I like how it forces the player to...
by Ellie Dix | May 30, 2020 | Board Game Design, Dark Imp Stuff, News
Unboxing videos BuzzleBox 2: Doughnuts and Cake has made its way into the hands of some reviewers recently. This week, there are two new unboxing videos to share. Reviews will follow! Nick Welford from Board, Deck and Dice: BuzzleBox 2 unboxing Oliver Kinne from...
by Ellie Dix | May 9, 2020 | Board Game Design, Dark Imp Stuff, News
Top Cakes This week we’ve been packaging up lots of copies of Top Cake. Top Cake is a bidding game where players try to win layers of cake and stack them on top of each other to create high score showstoppers. The preorders of BuzzleBox 2 are being shipped on...
by Ellie Dix | May 2, 2020 | Board Game Design, News
Scrap Collectors My new bag-building game, which I wrote about last week for the first time, has had a new iteration. Now action takes place around a rondel – a circular track that players move around. The board is modular so can be set up in a number of ways...
by Ellie Dix | Apr 25, 2020 | Board Game Design, News
Trailing Uranus! Dedicated readers of this blog will have followed the design process for my 3-6 player cooperative network building game – URANUS! My hope is that Uranus will be published later in the year. But to get people excited and interested in this new...
by Ellie Dix | Apr 11, 2020 | Board Game Design, Dark Imp Stuff, News
Metro This week, Metro Newspaper featured a full page profile on me as part of their Tips from the Top series. I was representing the board game design profession. During the interview I was asked for tips of the trade, how to break into the board game design world,...
