Widget's Workshop: Build Robots Better.

If you’ve been fomenting a drop-style card crafting revolution, this might be the game for you.

December 23, 2025 · 3 min · 504 words · Tipa

Backed the Vectrex Mini

Here’s what I know about it. Which is a bit.

November 4, 2025 · 5 min · 1045 words · Tipa

Still More Confessions of a Kickstarter Superbacker

Oh dear. I keep backing Kickstarters. Why? WHY? I dunno. Anyway, here’s what I’m waiting for today.

September 4, 2025 · 5 min · 1012 words · Tipa

How Kickstarter Projects are Handling Tariffs

I might have a Kickstarter problem. I went to all the campaign pages for the games I haven’t yet received to find out how tariffs were affecting them.

May 2, 2025 · 3 min · 534 words · Tipa

Tariffs will destroy the board game industry, and I am there for it.

I think we have to look on the bright side of the death of Kickstarted board games.

April 4, 2025 · 2 min · 422 words · Tipa

How To Fail at Writing A Game in 7 Days

Also, lots of Tunnels & Trolls-adjacent stuff.

March 10, 2025 · 5 min · 1048 words · Tipa

First Impressions: Stars Reach

The game is very much in development and far from finished, but I think I see where it wants to go.

February 26, 2025 · 6 min · 1107 words · Tipa

Beyond Shadowgate: The SECRET Menu?!

If you’re a Beyond Shadowgate speedrunner, or are considering a promising career in Shadowgate speedrunning, you’re going to want to read this.

October 27, 2024 · 2 min · 231 words · Tipa

More Confessions of a Kickstarter Superbacker

It’s like the number one sign you have too much money: logging into Kickstarter. Here’s an update on what games are coming my way and (hopefully) onto the table.

August 3, 2024 · 6 min · 1160 words · Tipa

SacriFire: A love letter to the golden age of JRPGS

Pixelated Milk’s new game in development, SacriFire, dropped their open playtest this weekend. This is the first time that even the game’s Kickstarter backers have been able to play the game, and… this game isn’t what I expected. That’s not a bad thing, at all. It’s because in this golden age of JRPGs, I was playing the Final Fantasies, the Breaths of Fire, the turn-based choose-your-attack-from-a-menu kind of JRPGs. And I really, really liked them. ...

June 10, 2024 · 7 min · 1350 words · Tipa