A Bit of Board Games: A Board Game Design Journey

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk about cardamom, mice, and do a full game design workshop of how we would turn the indie video game, Moonlighter, into a board game! Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience...

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk about Halloween and what we're working on in November. Also, Design Challenge livestream on November 7th at 6:30pm MT (8:30pm ET) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBxNhZEstOusLLHhOiLi7cQ  Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful...

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk through refining the art process, stretching our art skills, and an upcoming Design Challenge livestream! Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in graphic design and ill...

This week, Stephen and Ralph finish talking about Starfield (we're done, I promise), update our Drawtober progress, and talk about getting an initial quote for manufacturing Foundry! Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph'...

This week, Stephen, Ralph, and Trevor talk about fun fall things, designing towards a goal, and have a mini design session for a space exploration board game! Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in gra...

This week, Stephen and Ralph go over the beginnings of Drawtober (a drawing challenge throughout October), the process for the new illustrations, and have a mini design session about turning the indie video game, Stray, into a board game. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a...

This week, Stephen, Ralph, and Trevor talk about the parts of the game that we're refining, prepping for Drawtober (to crank out art for Foundry), and do a mini design session for what a real-time strategy board game would look like! Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a...

This week, Stephen and Jesse talk about the recent playtests of Foundry at B-Con, meeting publishers, and the main takeaways that we'll apply for the next convention. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive expe...

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk about Starfield, player agency in video and board games, and art progress on Foundry. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in graphic design and illustration, and Steph...

This week, Stephen, Ralph, and Trevor talk about yellow jackets, the corruption mechanic in Foundry, and whether content should be in the main game vs. an expansion. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience...

This week, Stephen and Trevor talk about networking and testing the game at TactiCon in Colorado. We go over the feedback and changes that we're working through. Trevor's YouTube Channel:  https://youtube.com/@FFT97?si=jlcd3xE3rvCPpXyS Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and mana...

This week, Stephen, Ralph, and guest, Jesse, talk through the results of our first Tabletop Simulator playtest. Some great results with gratifying gameplay, great card synergy, and fun systems to play in! Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the groun...

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk about making friends, small games with big impacts, and the details of the art process for our cards. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in graphic design and illustr...

This week, Stephen, Ralph, and Trevor talk about sports games, getting Foundry onto Tabletop Simulator, and talk through some game design decisions. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in graphic desig...

This week, Stephen, Ralph, and Trevor talk about bee stings, results and changes after the 6-player playtest, and how the scope creep is real. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in graphic design and...

In this episode, Stephen and Ralph talk about more playtests, adjusting rules, and simplifying the gameplay for Foundry. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in graphic design and illustration, and Step...

This week, Trevor, Stephen, and Ralph live streamed Stephen's reaction to Dead Space while also talking a bit about the changes they're making to the game. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience...

This week, Trevor, Stephen, and Ralph talk about a successful playtest at a game design meetup and the feedback that they received. Tune in next week for a live streamed episode! Follow on Twitch to be notified when we're live! Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a succes...

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk about the 4th of July, prototype updates, and the 3 different stages of prototyping. Article: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1443324/3-distinct-stages-prototyping  Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up,...

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk about getting back into the card design, creating immersive interfaces and art, and diegetic UI vs non-diegetic UI. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the ground up, Ralph's extensive experience in graphic desi...

This week, Stephen, Trevor, and Ralph live stream for the first time! They talk about the new mascot/logo for Bit Waffle Games (Wally), finding a good pace for game design, and react live to a video, WoW's Darkest Secret. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4pC05Gdzs8&t=13s  Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With...

This week, Stephen, Trevor, and Ralph talk about working on the rulebook, Ralph finalizing his other work, The Witcher: Old World, Starfield, and various games that were over-promised, but under-delivered.... Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up from the g...

This week, we lost our recording... So here's a redo of the episode with Stephen and Ralph. We chat about some new illustrations, yard work, Magic the Gathering: Lord of the Rings set, and other random things.  Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start-up fro...

This week, Stephen and Ralph talk about the Dead Cells rogue-like board game and how they tackle making failure fun (last week's topic) and design elements of thematic games and how they bring you into the game world. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful start...

In this episode, Stephen and Ralph talk about whether the art or the game development is harder and if it's possible to making failing fun in a board game so that players keep coming back, even if it's challenging. Bit Waffle Games is an independent board game studio made up of three friends, Trevor, Ralph, and Stephen. With Trevor's background creating and managing a successful sta...