Author: Tom Truman

With Amulet of Thrayax our first major project, Vincent and I learned the hard way that before you start working on the art, you should have the mechanics and graphic design of the game locked in place…

The King prefers to gorge himself on the pleasures of regal life, whilst the Council are corrupt, power hungry cronies who will do anything for money. This leaves their puppet masters, the ominous Circle, pulling all the strings of government for their own nefarious purposes…

Regardless of how “finished” a game might feel, certain areas of improvement may only show up when the game has gotten into the hands of reviewers and the general public…

Bards will often regale you with tales of Heraldsham, the home of the city of Bleakpyre…

I started a development blog on BoardGameGeek, and I’ve decided I’d like to also include these posts on the blog here…

With all the eccentric “deities” idolised by the participating cults in Thraymania, you could be excused for thinking that the world of Intendia, in which the city of Bleakpyre resides, has a rich and diverse pantheon…

We thought we’d update you on some of the progress we’ve been making behind the scenes since the campaign…

We’re super excited to announce the Amulet of Thrayax Kickstarter campaign is launching on May 31st!

Over February we’ve been busily growing our Kickstarter page following, which currently stands at a whopping 340 followers over a very short space of time!…

After a year of designing, playtesting, prototyping, marketing and demoing, we’re excited to announce our Kickstarter pre-launch page is now here!

As we’re get closer to the Kickstarter, we’ll be putting out more frequent blog posts and updates again. Here’s what we’re currently up to this January…

Hey Rerollers, we’ve got some great news – we’ll be exhibiting at Dragonmeet 2021!…

After the huge high that was our success at UKGE, our plan to start our pre-campaign marketing and announce our launch date in September was replaced with us having a million meetings and putting everything on hold as we grapple with the global shipping crisis…

Wow, what a weekend at UKGE 2021! We were swamped from start to finish…

We’ll be exhibiting at UKGE 2021, the UK’s largest tabletop exhibition!…

Amulet of Thrayax is a 2 – 6 player game about “harvesting” Nobles and Peasants for points as part of a cult-run competition called Thraymania…

The Cat King is but a rumour and those who believe the stories can’t be sure of the King’s origins…

Born out of Bleakpyre’s Amateur Dramatics Society, we reveal the over-dramatic, thrill seekers called the Unamused!

Really exciting news! Public playtests of Amulet of Thrayax are coming very soon!

When the villagers asked Sola to put a stop to Anazar and the evil experiments he was conducting, they had left out some of the finer details…

When my friend asked me about making a board game on Tabletop Simulator, I thought I’d go one further and make an article covering the basics

‘Reality is a lie!’ Today we shine a spotlight on “The Seers”, one of the six cults that feature in our new board game Amulet of Thrayax

SO BIG NEWS! As you know we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to get our first release ready for Kickstarter, and we’re finally ready to announce our very first game…

I talk about how making homebrew content for a childhood classic led me down the path to releasing a board game on Kickstarter.

Today I talk about the trials and tribulations of making games on Powerpoint as a kid…