This is the second post in a series about Alan Paull's re-development of Andrew McNeil's game Kingmaker for Gibsons Games. Posts: Basic...

This is the first post in a series about Alan Paull's re-development of Andrew McNeil's game Kingmaker for Gibsons Games. Posts:...

Yesterday (13 July 2022), I blethered with Bez on her live stream about the game mechanism of Action Retrieval. If you'd like to hear the...

At this year’s Expo we will be presenting our Pocket Campaigns series of games variously designed by David J Mortimer and Alan Paull, Lux...

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Would you like to attend UK Games Expo, but haven't sorted it out yet? Would you like a free hotel room there? Surprised Stare Games is...

Surprised Stare will be at AireCon 2022 in Harrogate from Friday 11 March to Sunday 13 March. We'll be setting up on the Thursday...

Gibsons Games have just created a signup form for people who would like to receive information about the launch of their new edition of...

Tiffany has the reprints of The Cousins' War and The Ming Voyages. Shipping starts to customers from Spiral Galaxy Games early next week...

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...