Chess player at age 4. Wargame player at age 13. Programmer at age 14. Software engineer by trade. Game designer by passion.

Stack Académie Montréal

It didn’t take long for Steel & Steam to move back to the front burner. A couple of days ago, Marc Guenette, one of the administrators of the Stack Académie Montréal Facebook page, sent me an invitation to join their group and attend their annual game convention in Montréal, which is taking place from May…

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Designer’s Note: Steel & Steam

The genesis of Steel & Steam came from numerous playings of the Avalon Hill classic, Rail Baron. Rail Baron was a favorite of my son and his mother and we enjoyed playing many games together. However, over time, it became apparent that the game experience was not as rich as it could have been. Under…

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Riding the TOCS Wave

Steel & Steam is currently on the back burner while I’m riding high on the TOCS wave. In order to accomplish our goal of getting TOCS into the hands of other playtesters this year, there is a mountain of work to accomplish. Here’s the how and why. Rules Review The splitting of the original MASL…

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Making the Blog a Safer Place

This blog now uses the https protocol. You should see your browser’s security padlock when accessing this blog. This is just one step in making all of brickmillgames.com sites secure using the HTTPS protocol and valid certificates. Other brickmillgames.com sites to follow…

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Nor’easter XXII

Paul and I are attending the Nor’easter XXII Convention in Boxborough this weekend and playtesting the latest rules and tools for the TOCS system.  In spite of some initial technical difficulties, we are both having quite a bit of fun with the game and ironing out quite a few rules.  I’ll post some pictures after the con….

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A Milestone: TOCS Counters

 After quite a few weeks of getting Canvas up to snuff, as well as a few other code modules updated, the counters for the existing TOCS modules are back to the condition they were at before the big reset. There’s more tweaking to be done, and my Canvas code modules are only 63% documented, but…

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