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Looting The Trove: The Making of Dart

May 22, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Welcome to Looting The Trove, a look at the behind-the-scenes development of the games in the CTG library. This month, with Gearlocs and games from the Splice & Dice Kickstarter getting delivered around the world, we decided to take a look at Dart, one of our new Gearlocs. CTG co-founder and game designer Adam Carlson […]Continue reading »

Strategy Spotlight: Angles of Attack

May 15, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Welcome to Strategy Spotlight, a series on the Chip Theory Games blog in which we break down some key strategies and rule reminders for the biggest CTG titles. Around our office, we get a lot of questions about movement and attack in Too Many Bones. Everybody wants an edge on their Baddies, and it’s certainly […]Continue reading »

Fiction Friday: The Delivery, part 1

May 1, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Welcome to Fiction Friday, a feature on our blog where we contribute a new piece of lore to the universe of one of our games. We hope you enjoy it! The Delivery, part 1 “Peon!” Grorglesnax rushed into the entry chamber of Marrow’s stone ruler’s barracks. The attending orc was a good foot higher than […]Continue reading »

Fiction Friday: Strike The Bell

March 27, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Welcome to the latest Fiction Friday, the CTG blog feature where we contribute a new piece of lore to the universe of one of our games. This month, with us all working hard on the Cloudspire: Ankar’s Plunder Kickstarter, we’ve decided to publish a portion of the current draft of the Cloudspire Vol. 2 lorebook, […]Continue reading »

Looting the Trove: Making the brawnen

March 13, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Welcome to the first installment of Looting The Trove, a look at the behind-the-scenes development of the games in the CTG library. For our first outing, I decided to share a behind-the-scenes piece of Cloudspire, the Chip Theory title that’s nearest and dearest to my heart.When Cloudspire was first in development, our intrepid designers Josh, […]Continue reading »

Our 2020 convention schedule

March 4, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

2020 is going to be a big convention year for Chip Theory Games. It’s our first year of selling the Too Many Bones: Splice & Dice expansion (along with our Dart and Lab Rats Gearloc add-ons). The second half of the season, we will also have the Horizon’s Wrath and Uprising factions available for purchase. […]Continue reading »

Fiction Friday: Pub brawl

February 28, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Welcome to Fiction Friday, a new feature on our blog where we contribute a new piece of lore to the universe of one of our games. We hope you enjoy it! Pub Brawl Editor’s note: Portions of the following story have been translated from trollese into English for ease of the reader. There is some […]Continue reading »

Strategy Spotlight: Untargetable?

February 21, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Welcome to Strategy Spotlight, a new series on the Chip Theory Games blog in which we break down some key strategies and rule reminders for the biggest CTG titles. Today, we’re going to tackle a topic that has made many a Gearloc pull their ears in despair: the difference between damage dealt to targets and […]Continue reading »

Now accepting applications!

February 13, 2020 Ryan Howard (Lhadnil)

Greetings, Chip Theory fans! Convention season is right around the corner, and that means an opportunity for you to interact with Chip Theory Games in a fun and exciting way – while hopefully getting some new people excited about the games you love. That’s right, folks, it’s time for our annual post letting you know […]Continue reading »