Craven Games: In-Depth Tabletop Games and LARPing Coverage

Craven Games exists to provide gamers with detailed information to empower purchasing and spread the hobby.

game design

Computer Generated Artwork Showing Dueling Gears in Heavy Gear Assault with Cheering Fans

Interview with Mike Prinke on Heavy Gear Assault

May 23, 2013July 5, 2019 Brant Polkowski 3730 Views 0 Comments dp9, dream pod 9, game design, heavy gear, heavy gear arena, heavy gear blitz, john nguyen, kickstarter, mech, shadowrun

On May 13 I spoke with Technical Designer Mike Prinke for quite a while about the Heavy Gear Assault video

Read more

Book cover with medieval illumination for TIme Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

Books Media Reviews

The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer

February 28, 2013July 6, 2019 Brant Polkowski 2321 Views 0 Comments board games, books about gaming, game design, LARPing, re-enactors, role-playing games, SCA

I’d like to think that I’ve gotten a lot out of my world travels, but in my visit to Japan,

Read more

Clad in a Slayer shirt, game designer Todd Breitenstein holds up The Current Number of the Beast at Comic-Con booth

Todd Breitenstein on Zombies!!! and The Current Number of the Beast

August 2, 2012July 5, 2019 Brant Polkowski 2065 Views 0 Comments comic con, game design, sdcc 2012, todd breitenstein, twilight creations, zombies!!!

Todd A. Breitenstein is the designer of Zombies!!! and one half of Twilight Creations. He and his wife Kerry were

Read more

GM Jerry Grayson with 3D Hirst Arts plaster science fiction corridors at Vegas Game Day for a game of Colonial Marines

Jerry Grayson on Hellas, Godsend Agenda, and Atlantis

May 10, 2012July 5, 2019 Brant Polkowski 2300 Views 1 Comment atlantis, game design, godsend agenda, hellas, jerry grayson

I interviewed Jerry Grayson on May 2 at his home in Las Vegas. He is the designer of Hellas and

Read more

Overhead image of Yards game board, wooden pieces, and game cards

Arel and Ro-El Cordero Talk Yards: The Game of Inches at the GAMA Trade Show

April 7, 2012July 6, 2019 Brant Polkowski 1883 Views 0 Comments board games, GAMA, gama trade show, game design, gts 2012, manufacturing advice, yards the game of inches

I am not a football fan by any stretch of the imagination. I enjoyed going to Cal games when I

Read more

Box art for Eclipse made by Asmodee Games

News and Articles

GAMA Trade Show Manufacturing Seminars

April 3, 2012June 22, 2023 Brant Polkowski 1790 Views 2 Comments aeg, GAMA, gama trade show, game design, gts 2012, manufacturing advice, panda game manufacturing

Larry Roznai of Mayfair Games: Domestic Manufacturing 101 I only caught the tail end of Larry Roznai providing advice to

Read more

Most Popular Upload

Articles:

Army Building (3)
Board Games (3)
Books (10)
Events and Battles (23)
FEATURED (11)
Films (6)
Interviews (35)
Media (18)
Miniature Wargaming (5)
Music (2)
News and Articles (48)
Rants and Editorials (6)
Reviews (49)
role playing games (3)
Terrain (3)
Tutorials and Design (4)

Chronologically

June 2014 (2)
January 2014 (3)
November 2013 (1)
October 2013 (3)
September 2013 (3)
August 2013 (3)
May 2013 (2)
April 2013 (9)
March 2013 (6)
February 2013 (1)
December 2012 (5)
November 2012 (6)
October 2012 (7)
September 2012 (4)
August 2012 (17)
July 2012 (8)
June 2012 (6)
May 2012 (10)
April 2012 (15)
March 2012 (24)
February 2012 (7)
January 2012 (1)
October 2011 (1)
September 2011 (15)
October 2010 (1)
September 2010 (2)
August 2010 (1)
July 2010 (1)

Copyright © 2011-2026 Craven Games: In-Depth Tabletop Games and LARPing Coverage. All rights reserved.