Archive - GameTek

Kurt Vonnegut's GHQ

Oct 20, 2024 •

Geoff Engelstein

Grand Unified Gateway Theory

A Design Pattern

May 5 •

Geoff Engelstein

What constitutes plagiarism in game design?

Dec 12, 2024 •

Geoff Engelstein

In college I took a science fiction writing class taught by Joe Haldeman, author of the excellent The Forever War. For one assignment we each received a…

Jun 29, 2024 •

Geoff Engelstein

The Devil's Plan

Lessons for designers from the Netflix series

Oct 23, 2023 •

Geoff Engelstein

2025, Triangles, and You

Happy New Year!

Jan 5 •

Geoff Engelstein

Blasting off again

Jul 8 •

Geoff Engelstein

"Is It Cake?" Mistakes

Aligning rules and goals with your core promise

Jul 19, 2023 •

Geoff Engelstein

X-Raying the design techniques of Teuber's masterpiece

Apr 7, 2023 •

Geoff Engelstein

Tabletop Game Designers Association

Year 1 Accomplishments

May 22 •

Geoff Engelstein

A GameTek Stocking Stuffer

Nov 26, 2023 •

Geoff Engelstein

The Wrens of WATU, or How Women Wargamers Helped Win World War II

I originally wrote this story as a twitter thread over three years ago.

Apr 30, 2023 •

Geoff Engelstein

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