Tabletop
I love to design tabletop games that are simple to learn, evocative to play, and highly social. In addition to the dozens of games that I have designed or adapted for live events such as the Genius Northwest and The Gauntlet, I also design original games for commercial release. While I self-published my first game Skulldug! back in 2015, these days I am focused on signing my designs to other publishers. If you’re a publisher and you’d like to talk more about any of these designs, drop me a line!
2025
Plots
Tabletop
Plots is a fast-playing, two-player spatial card game about building a shared garden. Players take on the roles of competitive neighbors, each with a unique view of the same garden. Take turns planting flower cards into a 5x5 grid with the aim of making your view the best.
High Plains Grifter
Tabletop
In Development
Pitching
High Plains Grifter is a Western-themed auction game with lots of hidden information and a little bit of set collection. Players take on the roles of dusty old prospectors, wagering dubious mining claims on games of cards.
2024
Grandstand
Tabletop
Signed
Grandstand is a fast-playing, two player spatial card game evocative of classic card games but with a puzzly modern twist. Build a 5x5 grid of cards, then score the poker hands formed within the grid.
2021
Mulligan Stew
Tabletop
In Development
Pitching
Mulligan Stew is a card-matching and light bluffing game for 2-5 players where you play as workers in the royal kitchen, competing to prepare the best stews for each member of the royal family by matching the cards in your hand with each royal’s preferred stew ingredients.
2019
Pack of Spies
Tabletop
In Development
Pitching
Pack of Spies is a spy-themed card placement game for 2-5 players where you try to build sets of agent cards to take over various regions of the world. The trick is that you are loyal to two spy agencies, and you share one of those loyalties with each of the players on your left and right.
2017
Hop Shots
Tabletop
In Development
Pitching
Hop Shots is a tabletop game of positional strategy and hand management that I designed between 2017 and 2018.
Players take on the role of frogs competing to collect sets of bugs and flowers from a board of randomly dealt lily pad tiles.
2015
Skulldug!
Tabletop
Self-Published
Released
Skulldug! is a pulp adventure-themed exploration board game. Players take on the role of adventurers searching for treasure in the treacherous depths of an uncharted cave. You take turns discovering squares of the board by drawing from a deck of terrain cards.
2013
The Spirit of Giving
Tabletop
Released
The Spirit of Giving is a card game that I designed for a game jam in December 2013 that is played with a traditional 52-card deck and a stack of Post-It notes.