Ya gotta love humanity. Although we can be cruel and wasteful, this doesn’t outweigh the beauty and innovation we’ve achieved. Consider...

You’ve just gotten back from a trip abroad and you’re meeting a friend for coffee. “How was the vacation?” she asks. “Let me show you...

There is a phrase I hear a lot in the context of game development called "rapid prototyping". Even now I'm not totally sure of its...

Imagine what it would be like to run into an old friend you hadn’t seen in centuries. How would it feel to have memories as old as the...

As humans begin to travel to places beyond Earth it’s possible we may encounter new forms of life. In fact branching out may not be...

Will human beings ever colonize other planets and moons? Given our current efforts to establish long term bases on our own moon and on...

Location: Southwest Callisto Diameter: 37 miles Etymology: Finnish The crater called Nakki is named for a particular Finnish water...

One of the mechanics in Three Days on Callisto is the "procurement" of various materials useful to your moon-based operations. Many of...

Location: Northwest Callisto Diameter: 37 miles Etymology: Ket (Siberian) The Kets of central Siberia are believed to be the only modern...

Due to the pandemic GenCon 2020 had to be virtual. For reasons I think we can all understand the in-person GenCon 2019 was more memorable...

In March of 2020 I flew to Denver to attend a Protospiel convention. I'm a big fan of Protospiels, having already attended two in...

Location: Northeast Callisto Diameter: 41 miles Etymology: Celtic At 62 degrees of latitude, Nuada is located farther north than...

On December 21st, 2020, the winter solstice, Jupiter and Saturn will be closer together in the night sky than they have in almost 400...

Many of my friends have been instrumental in the development of Three Days on Callisto. They have been very generous with playtesting the...

A common challenge in game design is achieving the right level of "player interaction". In a competitive game player interaction often...

Location: Northwest Callisto Diameter: 61 miles Etymology: Greenland Inuit I really love that on one of the moons of Jupiter there is a...

Last week I described a little bit of what went into the very first board. Two more iterations quickly followed that first version, and...

If you're going to say goodbye to Earth and all its conveniences, perhaps forever, and make the 500+ million mile move to one of the...

The very first iteration of the game lacked any thematic basis. There were these worker placement spaces that I made circular more or...

Location: Northwest Callisto Diameter: 21 miles Etymology: Votyak (Finno-Ugric) The name Vu-Murt, which comes from the mythology of the...