London Meetup Sunday 17th February

The February Meetup will be on Sunday 17th February from 1pm to 8pm at the Jugged Hare pub, Victoria.

After a romantic week with your loved ones, it is time to feed your passion for playtesting. With Lawrence's 'Chocolate Factory' game, all we need is a card game about a florist shop and Cupid's dexterity archery game.

If you've designed a game, bring it along and give it a play or just enjoy playing other people's prototypes in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Everyone is welcome.

If you would like to bring along a new design, contact Rob Harris (Organiser) and we will add your game to the list.

More details: www.meetup.com/Playtest/events/86203292/

We also have a guild at Boardgamegeek.com: www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/1398

Some of the games to be playtested (TBC):

Superhero game - special-powered crime-fighting (Chris Leigh)

Hex Chit game - game prototype (Behrooz Shahriari)

Princes of Amber - board game (Karel Smutný)

Rock Paper Scissors BANG! - 2-player family abstract strategy game (Dave Cousins)

Subsistence - a game of debt (Gavin Birnbaum)

Aegea - light eurogame (Brett Gilbert)

Starship Commander - miniatures game (Lawrence Davies)

The Dreamatorium Adventure - imagination game (Robert McAllister)

Dexikon - deckbuilding spelling game (Andrew Rowse)

Terror at Graveport - cooperative game (Andy Oakey)

Pareto - game prototype (Johan H.W. Basberg)

New Cambridge Playtest venue

The Cambridge Playtest weekly meetup has got a new venue: The Maypole pub, Portugal Place, Cambridge CB5 8AF.

Here is a link to their website:
www.maypolefreehouse.co.uk

The Cambridge Playtest meetups are organised by Playtest members, Brett Gilbert and Matt Dunstan.


If you would like to join the Cambridge Playtest meetup group follow this link: www.meetup.com/Playtest/events/84585372/

London Meetup Sunday 20th January

The January Meetup will be on Sunday 20th January from 1pm to 7pm at the Jugged Hare pub, Victoria.

With New Year's resolutions to spend more time game-designing and the now distant Xmas holidays to tinker with prototypes, January's meetup should be a bumper session. Let's kick off 2013 in style.

If you've designed a game, bring it along and give it a play or just enjoy playing other people's prototypes in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Everyone is welcome.

If you would like to bring along a new design, contact Rob Harris (Organiser) and we will add your game to the list.

More details: www.meetup.com/Playtest/events/86203192/

We also have a guild at Boardgamegeek.com: www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/1398

Some of the games to be playtested (TBC):

Hex-chit game - new game prototype (Behrooz Shahriari)

City of Guilds: The Dice Game (Andy Oakey)

Chocolate Factory (Lawrence Davies)

3 x Prototypes (Johan H.W. Basberg)

Amalgimal Zoo

Superhero game 2.0 (Chris Leigh)

Hollow Words - auction card game (Matt Green)

Dicelantis - very fast dice game (Matt Green)

Scattered Fleets - space exploration game (Andrew Rowse)

Aegea - light eurogame (Brett Gilbert)

Clockwise - a race game with a twist (Gavin Birnbaum)

Fog of War - light wargame (Gavin Birnbaum)

Designer & Playtester Feedback Forms updated

The feedback forms that are provided for free download have always been a popular part of the website, so I thought it was time they were updated in line with comments I have received from designers and playtesters alike.

Please find the links to the downloads below. (I have also shifted them from Google docs, which has caused some users problems in the past.)

The forms are free to download and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

The latest versions are as follows:

Designers Feedback Form version 3.4
Playtesters Feedback Form version 3.3

The link to the download folder is here.

If you have any questions about the forms or how to use them, please feel free to leave a comment.

London Meetup Sunday 16th December

The December Meetup will be on Sunday 16th December from 1pm to 7pm at the Jugged Hare pub, Victoria.

Christmas is traditionally a time for families to play a board game after filling up on turkey. Here's hoping that we can design the games that will relegate Monopoly to a dusty forgotten shelf.

If you've designed a game, bring it along and give it a play or just enjoy playing other people's prototypes in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Everyone is welcome.

If you would like to bring along a new design, contact Rob Harris (Organiser) and we will add your game to the list.

More details: http://www.meetup.com/Playtest/events/84335612/

We also have a guild at Boardgamegeek.com: www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/1398

Games to be playtested (TBC):

Fishy business - board game with trading (Mo Holkar)

Caterwaul - new game prototype (Mo Holkar)

Shah - new game prototype (Peter Coffey)

Movie Mogul - auction card game (Rob Harris)

Dwarf Chess - new game prototype (Dave Turner)

Brent Crude - oil industry game (Andrew Bond)

Hold the Front Page - newspaper industry game (Andrew Bond)

Playtest @ Dragonmeet 2012

This will be our third successive year at Dragonmeet 2012 to run the Playtest Zone. 

Check out the www.dragonmeet.co.uk website for more details and to buy tickets, which can also be purchased on the day. We will be playtesting all day on Saturday.

This will be a public playtesting event for card and board games prototypes. If you are a games designer this is a perfect opportunity to play your game with the great gaming public and receive more feedback in a day than you usually would in a month.

f you've designed a game, bring it along and give it a play. If you sit down to play a game and leave some feedback then you will entered into a prize draw to win a £20 gift voucher from www.boardgameguru.co.uk 

If you would like to bring along a game design, or just help out on the stand, please contact Rob Harris or leave a message below.

More details to follow.........

You can join the Playtest @ Dragonmeet event here: www.meetup.com/Playtest 

London Meetup 18th November

The November Meetup will be on Sunday 18th November from 1pm to 7pm.

If you've designed a game, bring it along and give it a play or just enjoy playing other people's prototypes in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Everyone is welcome.

If you would like to bring along a new design, contact Rob Harris (Organiser) and we will add your game to the list.

More details: www.meetup.com/Playtest/events/82999842/

We also have a guild at Boardgamegeek.com: www.boardgamegeek.com/guild/1398

Games to be playtested (TBC):

Meeplechase - (Gavin Birnbaum)

Yellow Jersey - (Gavin Birnbaum)

Tenure - (Adam Taylor)

Hivemind - (Adam Taylor)

Dragon Eggs - a tile based adventure game (Lawrence Davies)

Movie Mogul - an auction-based card game (Rob Harris)

Zombie Command - a base-building game (Barry)

'Tube' (WT) - a strategy game (Ben)

Scattered Fleet - an area control space combat game (Andrew Rowse)

Zombies at your Heels - apocalyptic card game (Andrew Rowse)

Tribes of the Valley - a worker placement game (Lawrence Davies)