Chaos to Order We are proud to have designed Weird Giraffe’s newest game, “Logic & Lore.” You can find the kickstarter for our little cozy-competitive game here: Logic & Lore — Kickstarter This is the first of several design diary entries. Today we are going to share the game’s origins.  And those origins involve Darren …

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We are very sweaty… Hey Durdle fans it’s been a while since we talked. Don’t worry though it’s not you, it’s us. You see we’ve been deep in the game catacombs working hard on Durdle releases for the past few months. It’s dark and damp down here. The wi-fi is spotty. Even Door Dash refuses …

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This Durdle thing might be contagious The biggest gaming dance in North America has come and gone now. Games have been played, friendships been made, and millions of hours of sleep lost. This GenCon was the biggest since 2019 and it definitely felt like it. Indianapolis was overrun with people excited for a long weekend …

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In a world… Whoa! Where did the summer go? It seems like just yesterday we were holding our first annual Durdle-summit to plan our Durdle-operations for the coming Durdle-year. Now the Durdle-year is half done and we are frantically flailing our designer arms like Kermit the frog as we race to the finish that is …

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Performance review time. At the beginning of this year we laid out a few major goals for Durdle Games. But like the famous saying goes “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. So before convention season kicks off we though it would be a good time to review our progress and …

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I’m getting better, I feel fine. It’s really tough having a game that is “pretty good”. It plays pretty good. The rules are pretty good. People have a pretty good amount of fun when playing it. It even looks pretty good. Ultimately you feel pretty good about it in general. That makes it good right? …

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When the curtain rises. Tomorrow will be the Kickstarter launch of Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze and while at times it felt like the day would never come it is suddenly all too close. Tomorrow’s launch will be the culmination of nearly a year of design, revision, testing, dreaming, and hoping from Durdle Games. It’s …

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It takes a village to call you a failure. Above is our favorite piece of feedback we ever received (summarized from memory). It was for Aimbots and came from a game developer who spoke English as a second language. We hope to meet this man again some day so he can eviscerate more of our …

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Please send coffee. As fun as working for Durdle Games can be, it is also…you know…work. Durdle Games hit the ground running full speed in 2023 and in this post I wanted to reflect on what that looks like in a day-to-day sense. If you’ve ever wondered what trying to start a game company entails, …

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New years resolutions we totally intend to keep. 2022 was quite a year for Durdle Games. We went from small time hobbiest game designers smashing together ideas for fun to small time hobbiest game designers smashing ideas together for fun- that also have to pay taxes. Durdle Games becoming a legit small business was definitely …

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You got wrestling in my western game! This weeks blog posts covers the second game Jason illustrated during his time in the Tabletop Mentorship Program. Rowdy Partners is an upcoming trick-taking game that we consider about 50% complete at this point in time. If it looks unfamiliar that’s probably because we aren’t quite ready to …

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TAKE THIS! We take a lot of pride in our artwork at Durdle Games, even for games that are still taking their baby steps. But even a great artist needs to sharpen their blade sometimes. This weeks post will be the first of two posts about Jason’s experience in the Tabletop Mentorship program. Over the …

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Power Bomb your friends for fun! In our last episode with Durdle Games your favorite design duo decided to not take any time off and dive right into their next game design. And did they succeed? Actually…kinda…yes. Rowdy Partners has been hitting the table a lot over the past month and the game has been …

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Taking time to regroup and failing… GenCon came and went and it was a glorious clash of sound and fury. The big dance is always a beautifully exhausting experience. We saw a lot of games, played a few, and conducted a lot of Durdle business during the convention. I think the Durdle business will get …

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The robots are here, and they’re pretty cute. Today we have a design focused post for our readers. Durdle Games is #blessed to have a resident artist but you don’t have to be an artist to create some functional and surprisingly attractive prototype artwork. Below is a guide Jason put together showing the steps for …

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Mixing the ingredients for the perfect betting game. If you are anything like us at Durdle Games you probably often ask yourself “What would happen if I combined the genteel sophistication of the ‘Great British Bake Off’ with the bracket busting madness of the NCAA’s March Madness?” I mean everyone has to have asked themselves …

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Breathe Deep and Stay Focused Where did the year go? It seems like just yesterday we were after hours hijacking Ravensburger’s tables and flagging down people to play test Spelldice and Cramazon at late night Gencon. Good times. (shhhhhhh…. don’t tell Ravensburger) This years GenCon is looking a bit different for Durdle games. We have …

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So we were on our way to make a game when… we got a little distracted. The great thing about working on games as a duo is that you always have someone to bounce ideas off. The worst thing about working as a duo is that you have someone to entertain all of your nonsense. …

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… where did you go? It’s been a little while since we updated the world with Durdle news! So what happened to Durdle Games since Gencon 2021? Did we give up? Did we break up? Did we give up on breaking up? We are still here! We took a couple months to decompress after Gencon. …

Hey Durdle, watcha doin’?… Read More »

… and thanks for all the playtests! GenCon is always a wild ride and this year might have been the wildest ever. For those that took the time to sit down to try Spelldice and Cramazon, we are very thankful for every minute you spent at our (actually Ravensburgers’) demo table. Thank you for sitting …

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