Jeff Warrender

forest. Published by Schmidt Spiele (2024) 7. Lost Adventures: Co-design with Steve Sisk. Adventure archaeology movie in tabletop form. Self-published by Belltower Games. (2023) 6. The Acts of the Evangelists: Book-writing game set in the ancient world. Self-published by Belltower Games. (2022) 5. Backyard Baseball: 2p game about playing a quick game of baseball before dinner. Free PnP (2021) 4. Poetica: Co-designed with P.D. Magnus. Poetry-writing using the illustrations of the Decktet. Web-published (2019) 3. The Sands of Time: Civilization-building game. Published by Spielworxx (2018) 2. The Ministry of Knowledge: A game for the Decktet. Bid low to get grants (chips), use them to publish papers for points. (2015) 1. Journalists: A game for the Decktet. Use time chips to get the best stories. (2014) Ready to publish: (photos and descriptions for a few of these here) Buzz Off!: (card game, 2-5p, 10-30m, 10+) Bribe the active player to take the whammy, or else the rest of us must take it! Won't Stop: (card game, 2-5p, 20m, 8+) As a kid, press-your-luck by using height-boosting attire to get on rides for which you are too short Bunny Business: (cards and tiles, 2-4p, 20m, 5+) Sell produce at the farmer's market to make the most cabbage Hot Seat: (card game 2-5p, 10m, 8+) Vote for which scoring rules to eliminate and which to keep, using the cards from your hand Mad City: (board and tiles, 2-4p, 30m, 6+) Family-weight tile-laying/route-building game with pentagonal tiles. Dosvedanya: (card game, 2-6p, 10m, 8+) Play cards, Uno-style, to shared scoring piles, until someone says "Dosvedanya!" and claims a pile for their own Storylands: (boards and tiles, 2-5p, 60m, 10+) Tell a hero's journey tale and build a land to support it. Psychoquiller: (social card game, 4-6p, 30m, 14+) Write poison pen letters to your opponents, literally for one player! Landfall: (board game, 1-4p, 45m, 10+) Bet on where hurricanes will make landfall. Hurricanes move using the novel "disc-drift" system. The Reformation: (board game, 3-5p, 60m, 10+) Mid-weight area-control-ish game, pass action cards you hope your opponents will choose Magic Lamp: (card game, 3-5p, 30m, 8+) Make a wish from the lamp, the other players act as genies who provide the lamp's response. Rickrolled: (card game, 3-4p, 15m, 8+) Bluffing game where you build melds, shed cards, and try not to be rickrolled Scaredy Cat: (card game, 2-6p, 15m, 5+) Quick-recognition game where quickly identifying the scariest animal moves you along the spooky gauntlet Oktoberfest: (card game, 3-7p, 20m, 8+) Draft cards, challenge opponents, but careful, you never know quite how "tipsy" you've become! Veruca Salt: (card game, 2-5p, 30m, 8+) Keep Veruca happy by constantly acquiring better items, via a conveyor-belt auction. Croupiers: (dexterity dice game, 2-5p, 3m, 6+) Party game, use croupier's rakes to pull dice that match your cards! Rushing River: (cards and dice, 2-4p, 20m, 6+) Move across the river by hopping on the backs of friendly animals, but they submerge unexpectedly! Do My Bidding: (card game, 3-5p, 45m, 10+) Participate in art auctions on behalf of one of your opponents, using their money. Kungaloosh!: (board game, 2-4p, 45m, 6+) Candyland with bid-to-move Downhill Racer: (cards and dice, 2p, 10m, 10+) Downhill ski racing; take risks, but manage your speed to avoid ending up in the netting! Ninjutsu: (dexterity game, two teams, 15m, 6+) Throw shurikens to knock down ninja standees, but don't hit the hostages! Santa's Reindeer: (card game, 2-5p, 45m, 6+) Present silly reasons why reindeer must be removed from Santa's team, then fill the vacancies Mission to Terra, aka Alien Phlebotomists: (cards and timers, 4p, 15m, 10+) Real-time co-op, extract and study the precious bodily fluids of Earthlings Le Sablier: (cards and timers, 4p, 15m, 10+) Real-time co-op, work together to complete a busy dinner service Collusion: (board game, 3-5p, 120m, 14+) Negotiation game; propose actions, provide support to others' actions, most-supported actions happen Funnel Clouds: (dexterity game, 2-6p, 10m, 8+) Dexterity auction -- build towers to predict where the twisters will go next Active projects (as of October 2025): Snappy Okapi's Safari Adventure: Place domino tiles to build the savannah, gain points for groups of the same animal. Post Hoc: (party game, 3-7p, 15m, 12+). Reveal two historical event cards, explain how the earlier was the cause of the later Darcy: Hidden movement game about Darcy's hunt for Wickham in Pride and Prejudice Alexandria Support Ptolemy's project to build a grand "city of the mind" in Egypt Come On Dover: Cheer for your horse to help him win but don't lose your dignity in the process This Turbulent Priest: Dissuade the king from ruining the realm, but don't draw too much of his ire Une Journee a Paris: Spend a day in Paris visiting its famous locations! White Christmas: A co-design with my wife that uses the disc-drift system. Try to reach a snowy destination before Christmas morning! The Ice Trade: Economic game. Ship ice from New England all over the world. I'm Thinking of a Number: Party game. Prove It: A co-design with my wife. A party game that grapples with ideas about truth and warranted belief. Stop Drop and ROLL: Light dice game with a duck-duck-goose cadence Back burner: Elvenwood: Travel through the elvenwood collecting resources, using a permission-granting action system Need for Speed: Play movement cards to swap the position of two cars, get your team's cars into winning position before the checkered flag! Bzzt: Shred documents that attest to our regime's misdeeds Blog: Jeff's World of Game Design Blog: Gameland Game design book: "You Said This Would Be Fun", available at Amazon (paperback, kindle, audiobook), Audible (audio), DriveThruRPG (ePub) Twitter: @belltowergames Web: Belltower Games Links: http://linktr.ee/belltowergames