If you recall, last year was a big year for games in regards to the National Toy Hall of Fame. Why? Because TWO “games” were selected out of the 12 nominees: The Game of Life and generic playing cards. This brought the total to 10 games (if you count marbles and jacks as “games”) out of 46 total Hall of Fame items. You can read more about that in last year’s article: HERE.
This year there out of the 12 finalists: Dollhouse, Dungeons & Dragons, Hot Wheels, Jenga, Pogo Stick, Puppets, …
Whether you’ve heard of it or not, this Saturday is Neighborhood Toy Store Day! This is the day were small independent stores across the country do something special to celebrated being apart of your community. Pretty cool huh? Okay, maybe it doesn’t sound that cool — but once you look into what some of the stores in your area are doing to celebrate I think you’ll see what I’m trying to say.
In my neighborhood in Chicago, there are THREE small local toy and game stores that are joining together to celebrate. *Play …
Even though there have been holiday decorations up in stores across the country for more than a month, I personally can’t believe it’s already November and the holidays are right around the corner! Now, for many of you in the game world you know that before we can dig in to our Thanksgiving turkey, we have to meet in Chicago for ChiTag! And the game I’m going to review this week, Befuzzled, will be the star of the Fun Q Games booth.
I’ve had Befuzzled on my desk for a little …
I can’t tell you how often it’s happened in my career that I show a concept to one company’s inventor relations representative and they give me less than glowing feedback, but the I show it to another company’s inventor relations representative and they can’t wait to bring it in. This always blows my mind – how one person can react like I showed them something that smelled foul and the next is as giddy as a child on Christmas morning. You’d think it doesn’t make sense that two people who …
This article was written for Global Toy News (July 22, 2011) and can be viewed with comments HERE. I’m adding it now to keep all of my game development advice articles all on my site under the same tag to make it easy for any aspiring or new inventors to access them. Click the HERE to see them all.
While I was writing my last article on boxes that last, I did a very informal poll on The Game Aisle’s Facebook page and Twitter account to see what everyone’s pet peeves were regarding packaging. Here …
