Chapin’s Substack
Chapin BoyerMy personal Substack
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Running Long
For the past two years, I’ve been working on my first Indie Game release: Skadi Tower (out now on mobile!). Any experienced developer will tell you that your first project should be small scale and quick to develop. Releasing is the most im...
Feathers and Cannonballs at Global Game Jam 2025
Sometimes when I think about a game I want to make, it arrives on the scene like a cannonball: fully formed, blasting aside everything else in my brain, forcing me to think about it and only it. This kind of idea is intoxicating because it...
Rubbing in All the Right Ways
When we talk about friction in game design, we often talk about sanding it down: the friction of an overly complicated menu, of a slow walk speed, of a badly tuned boss fight. There’s this concept of flow that pervades game design: keep the...
Getting Started and the Rule of History
The Quick Intro
Hey, folks! My name is Chapin Boyer. I’m a game designer, frequent wargame player, and unfrequent (but missing it) RPG player in Brooklyn (and originally from San Francisco, a fact my friends would say they are painfully...
Writings on Game Design
My name is Chapin, game designer, hopeless wargames enjoyer, and occasional writer. I’ll be writing and posting on game design as I labor away in the code mines for my day job.
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