{"id":7126,"date":"2017-12-04T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartamundi.com\/?page_id=7126\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:37:53","slug":"jeff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/jeff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Tidball shares his tips and tricks on game design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We were delighted to welcome Jeff Tidball, the COO of Atlas Games, at a Cartamundi Event during Spiel 2017. The annual four-day board game trade fair in Essen (Germany) was the perfect setting for Tidball\u2019s inspiring speech on creative games design.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tidball has been employed at Atlas Games since 1996, designing and publishing all types of role-playing and board games. Some of the best-known Atlas games include \u2018Gloom\u2019, \u2018Once Upon A Time\u2019 and the role-playing games \u2018Ars Magica\u2019, \u2018Unknown Armies\u2019 and \u2018Feng Shui\u2019. Tidball is also the co-founder of Gameplaywright, a publisher of non-fiction books on game design and storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As an award-winning independent game designer, Tidball has also been involved in the creation of numerous successful games. Some of his finest accomplishments are \u2018Eternal Lies\u2019,\u00a0\u2018Horus Heresy\u2019 &#8211; a mammoth board game of the\u00a0Warhammer 40,000\u00a0universe\u2019s foundational battle &#8211; and\u00a0\u2018Pieces of Eight\u2019 &#8211; a pirate-ship combat game, played with minted coins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tidball\u2019s most recent project is \u2018The White Box\u2019, a learning, planning and prototyping tool for board game designers. This project was brought to life via crowdfunding, and it proved a great success, funding more than ten times its original goal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this blog, we\u2019ll be sharing Tidball\u2019s most valuable tips and tricks on the creative aspects of game design and game publishing. So stay tuned for more videos!<\/p>\n<div class=\"BorlabsCookie _brlbs-cb-youtube\">\n<div class=\"_brlbs-content-blocker\">\n<div class=\"_brlbs-embed _brlbs-video-youtube\"> <img class=\"_brlbs-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/app\/plugins\/borlabs-cookie\/assets\/images\/cb-no-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"YouTube\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"_brlbs-caption\">\n<p>By loading the video, you agree to YouTube&#8217;s privacy policy.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy?hl=en&amp;gl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_brlbs-btn _brlbs-icon-play-white\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Load video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><label><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"unblockAll\" value=\"1\" checked> <small>Always unblock YouTube<\/small><\/label><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"borlabs-hide\" data-borlabs-cookie-type=\"content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-id=\"youtube\"><script type=\"text\/template\">PGlmcmFtZSB3aWR0aD0iNTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjI4MSIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLW5vY29va2llLmNvbS9lbWJlZC85Y1Y4b2gyRzl0Yz9mZWF0dXJlPW9lbWJlZCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIGdlc3R1cmU9Im1lZGlhIiBhbGxvdz0iZW5jcnlwdGVkLW1lZGlhIiBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4+PC9pZnJhbWU+<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We were delighted to welcome Jeff Tidball, the COO of Atlas Games, at a Cartamundi Event during Spiel 2017. The annual four-day board game trade fair in Essen (Germany) was the perfect setting for Tidball\u2019s inspiring speech on creative games design. &nbsp; Tidball has been employed at Atlas Games since 1996, designing and publishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/jeff\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":84,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"pure_taxonomies":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7128,"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7126\/revisions\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartamundi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}