Stonemaier Streams

Tabletop play is always our top priority at Stonemaier Games. We design games for the tabletop, we playtest games on the tabletop, and we only sell physical versions of games. However, over the years my appreciation has grown for the existence of digital versions of tabletop games, as those licenses allow us to serve our customers in a few important ways...   https://stonemaiergames.com/the-curren...

Join Jamey for an hour of Stonemaier Games news, questions, answers, and random discussion topics!   https://youtube.com/live/FFLREPwp654

In some ways, Wingspan Pocket is one of our smallest games. It’s only around 6x4x2 inches, it only takes 30 minutes to play, and it asks each player to manage only 1 row of bird cards. Yet by another metric it is our biggest game, as there are 175,000 units in the first English print run, by far the most in our 14-year history. With that much at stake, we really, really needed to get it right.   h...

I discuss my favorite new-to-me games (including expansions and sequels) of 2026 (January-June). This is not limited to 2026 releases.   https://youtu.be/v7fCV7jf0c4

Gabe Barrett runs Best With 1 Games, and over the last few years I've seen him adapt a really interesting strategy for creating and launching games. With their latest game, Stonefall , in its final days on Gamefound, Gabe was kind to take some time to answer questions about his methods.   https://stonemaiergames.com/34671-2/

Join Jamey and special guest Elizabeth to learn about Wingspan Pocket!   https://youtube.com/live/6JCCSCGdKng

A long time ago in a fulfillment center far, far away, Stonemaier Games offered a few ala carte options to webstore customers. Glass beads for Viticulture, plastic mechs for Scythe, metal coins for Charterstone...these were all included in their respective games, but sometimes people wanted more/extras.   https://stonemaiergames.com/why-ala-carte-isnt-feasible-at-scale/

Today I discuss my top 10 favorite heist-themed games, one of my favorite movie genres.   https://youtu.be/8OhChnJ9L_Q

In mid-2024, I had a hankering to design an asymmetric dueling game. However, I was daunted by the task of essentially designing two different games that existed in the same world and could have meaningful overlapping tensions. I quickly realized the obvious: Scythe and Expeditions are already different games that exist in the same alternate history and already have overlapping elements. https://s...

Join Jamey for an hour of Stonemaier Games news, questions, answers, and random discussion topics! https://stonemaiergames.com/games/duel-of-meloch/

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