Published
Click on Game Box Art to link to publisher or store for purchase.
King Philip’s War, Multiman Publishing, 2010
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41100/king-philips-war
Leaping Lemmings (W/Rick Young), GMT Games, 2010
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29687/leaping-lemmings
Hearts and Minds, Worthington Games, 1st Edition-2010
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27739/hearts-and-minds-vietnam-1965-1975
HUGS, Victory Point Games, 2012
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/130353/hugs
Lincoln’s War, Multiman Publishing, 2013
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35452/lincolns-war
Ball’s Bluff, Legion Wargames, 2015
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/172414/balls-bluff
LZ Albany, Decision Games, 2016
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/187815/lz-albany-ia-drang-valley-17-18-november-1965
Amigos & Insurrectos, Battles Magazine, 2016
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/115128/amigos-and-insurrectos-philippine-insurrection-1899-1902
Hearts and Minds, Worthington Games, 2nd Edition-2017
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27739/hearts-and-minds-vietnam-1965-1975
Belmont, Compass Games, 2017
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/203299/belmont-grants-baptism-command-november-7th-1861
Revolution Road, Compass Games, 2017
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192634/revolution-road
Blood on the Ohio, Compass Games, 2018
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/192637/blood-ohio-washingtons-indian-war-1789-1794
Maori Wars, Legion Wargames, 2018
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29386/maori-wars-new-zealand-land-wars-1845-1872
Fall of Siam, Compass Games, 2019
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/296651/fall-siam#:~:text=The%20Fall%20of%20Siam%20attempts,Chinese%20intervention%20and%20siege%20rules.
Devil Dogs: Belleau Wood (W/John Poniske Jr.), Worthington Games , 2019
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/249102/devil-dogs-belleau-wood-1918
Hearts and Minds, Compass Games, 3rd Edition-2019
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/254588/hearts-and-minds-vietnam-1965-1975-third-edition
Bleeding Kansas, Decision Games, 2019
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/282774/bleeding-kansas
Banana Wars, Strategy and Tactics, 2020
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/217210/banana-wars-us-intervention-caribbean-1897-1933
La Vendee, Against the Odds, 2021
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/341154/la-vendee-1793-counter-revolution-west
Plains Indian Wars, GMT Games, 2022
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/233958/plains-indian-wars
Fire on the Mountain,
Legion Wargames, 2022
https://www.legionwargames.com/legion_FIR.html
Due to be Published
Flanks of Gettysburg, Compass Games
Wolfe Tone’s Rising, Compass Games
Pontiac’s War, Compass Games
Berlin Airlift, Legion Wargames
Black Eagles, Clash of Arms Publishing
Mountain Men, Columbia Games
Historical Boardgame Designer.
I grew up in a family that loved games. Our game closet filled me with wonder. I spent more time playing boardgames with my friends than I did playing sports. It expanded my knowledge of the world and gave me a better understanding of competition and compromise. Life interrupted my love of games, but it was reinvigorated my final year in the Marine Corps. A good friend, and ultimately a great designer in his own right, reintroduced me to the hobby. It has been more than a hobby ever since. As a kid, I used to play around with the rules for Stratego and the Milton Bradley American Heritage games. As an adult I got more serious.
My passion has always been niche history - those interesting historical incidents that had an outsized influence on us but are nonetheless often overlooked. In the early 1990s, I began actively designing games on such subjects. My first designs had to do with the Civil War (I have an enduring passion for the American Civil War) None of those early designs ever saw print. I continued designing and began attending AvalonCon in Pennsylvania where I began making contacts. In 2010 I had my breakthrough - four in fact. Worthington Games accepted HEARTS AND MINDS. GMT accepted LEAPING LEMMINGS. MMP accepted King PHILIP’S WAR and LINCOLN’S WAR. Lincoln’s War remains my favorite design (you will say that the ACW is hardly an overlooked topic - yes, but my approach was politcal and that was unique) .
Since that time I have had over 25 designs accepted by twelve different companies. I have even experimented with children’s games (HUGS) and Family Games (LEAPING LEMMINGS). As any serious designer will tell you, the world provides a steady stream of new ideas. With that in mind, I have over 50 unclaimed designs on my shelf. Currently, I am dedicated to my ambitious writing project, THE SNAKEBIT SERIES. I will continue to nurse designs already in the hands of publishers but will probably not begin any new historical designs until the Series has been completed. I project that to be sometime in 2028. If any of the games I list below strike your fancy, contact the publisher to see if the title might still available. Most are. Just remember this -
Life is a game … Play fair!