Category: Game design

  • Chicken Run Designer Inteview

    Chicken Run Designer Inteview

    We have another opportunity to highlight a locally designed board game now on Kickstarter. The game is Chicken Run by Pround Games. Owners Josh Campbell, Brennan Clark, Bryan Todd, and Cameron Frank come out to our Oklahoma Board Game Community events and we definitely want to share this with the community, especially since some of you may have even helped in its creation!  (more…)

  • Guest Post: Chasing Your Passion

    Guest Post: Chasing Your Passion

    We like to promote local designers. Here’s a fantastic post from local designer Josh Fry of Salamander Games on his journey to become a game designer and publisher.

    Greetings friends and fellow gamers!

    I am so excited to see our board gaming community grow and get more organized in this last year. When the Oklahoma Board Game Community reached out to our group looking for people willing to do content submissions, I just had to respond and ask if I could be a part of it. Board gaming has been my passion since I was a kid and I jump at the chance to talk about it with anyone. It truly is the best hobby in the world!

    Tabletop gaming is more to me than just a pleasant diversion from the stresses of work and family life, it is also my second career. Together with my cousin and best friend Chad Scott, we decided to turn our interest into an endeavor and formed Salamander Games, a design and publishing company based right here in Oklahoma City.

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