6 Years
It is July 1st and that means it is the anniversary of Trapped Chest officially becoming a company, and time to look back at what has been accomplished. The last year has seen the release of several products, both paid...Read More
Gaming is Not a Luxury
It's hard to not notice that the world is getting more expensive and many people are tightening their budgets, but the most damaging thing is that many of these people are stepping away from gaming, or at least spending less...Read More
Ashes
This is not the blog post that I wanted to be writing, fate dictates that it must come to pass. In 2015 my family suffered a house fire. Within minutes a lifetime of progress was reduced to ash, family heirlooms...Read More
Conventions, Marketing & Upcoming Stuff
A month after the release of Reanimated and things are starting to actually gain traction. A few reviews, an interview on EN World the windup to convention season and most surprising is people contacting me asking for review copies, which...Read More
The Rising Cost of Manufacturing
A new year has come, I finally trained myself to stop writing "2024" on everything, and a print run for Reanimated is on the way, which which means that I had to take a look at the cost of printing...Read More
Unexpected Success
Halloween is right around the corner and here in Manitoba that means that this past weekend was Winnipeg ComicCon, which I attended as part of the Manitoba Board Game Designers, a small group that helps local designers with advice, play...Read More
An Indirect Use for AI?
Recently Tom Vassel released a video, showing off Google's new AI, NotebookLM. Unlike ChatGPT, which just scrubs the internet, this one has you upload a PDF to take data from, and this is a very interesting approach, as it gives...Read More
The Steam Wishlist
While I may only develop tabletop games, I do enjoy playing games in all of their forms, and after a long day at work when I just don't have the mental energy or when some friends are online I like...Read More
Missing GenCon
I love nerd conventions. I spent many years going with a large group to C4 ComicCon in Winnipeg every Halloween weekend, I have visited Essenspiel and recently the UK Games Expo, as well as many smaller cons in my area,...Read More
5 Years of Trapped Chest
July 1st, 2019. That was the day it all started. ...ok, that is not entirely accurate. I had been designing games before that, but that was the day that Trapped Chest legally became a company. The day was chosen because...Read More