Following in the footsteps of seemingly everybody else, I thought I’d trace out some gaming goals for 2022. In my experience, this trace...

A caricatured view of the history of wargames suggests that there was a Golden Age when there were very few wargames around, and they...

Our reprint of The Cousins' War and The Ming Voyages is due for delivery in early February 2022. It's taken an almost impossibly long...

I've handed over the redeveloped Kingmaker prototype to Gibsons Games down in Sutton. This marks a line-drawn-under-it moment in terms of...

A comparison of professional wargaming and recreational wargaming design processes 2019 was a very important year for professional...

Tony Boydell and The Museum of Board Games. Interviewed on the BBC.

TACTICS A definition: The deployment of friendly forces and engagement of a part of the enemy forces by them. Usually, with the purpose...

A post about the redeveloping Kingmaker game from Gibsons.

Welcome to Surprised Stare Games’ new website. We’ve switched to Wix to give our site a more modern look, because our old site was rather...

With Dr Lewis Pulsipher In which Lew and I have a deep-dive ramble about designing ‘the ideal introductory wargame’. We discuss some, to...