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Saturday, at 4 in the morning, I finished v3.0 of my game (to which I believe will be the final version). I was looking at the newest Game Trade Magazine after I got off of work that afternoon and read through all the new games coming out.

I come across this game coming out in May 2011 called "Letter Flipz", "Flip Cardz", or something to that effect.

"A game in which players frantically flip over cards with letters printed on them to create words as fast as possible."

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As a self-published designer, with games in stock, marketing is the next hurdle. So far sales are pretty good, with minimal effort (blogging and social site postings). A friend has been kind enough to help kick it up a notch and has made a how to play video. I have added a couple things to BGG (awaiting approval) before I can add the game to the site, so here is something for you all to watch :) I am open to hear other creative marketing ideas that are low budget! Anyone else in the marketing boat at this moment in time?

I was thinking of often unused theme in the board game, and one of that theme was time. I thought, 'How can I incoperate time into a board game? How do I use a theme that's so complicated?' I kept on brainstorming and thought the best way to use time as a theme, as simple as possible, is to divide it up to past, present, and future.

I then came up with 2 ways to actually represent this theme to a physical board game. These are just a simple momentary thoughts, not elaborated and as such still abstract.

As necessary as I think it is I still have a hard time promoting the games I make. It’s not that I don’t believe they are good games, I certainly do. It’s more a matter of how to go about it. I’m always happy to teach people one of my games which I think is the best advertising in the world. The problem with that is when I’m doing that I’m not designing the next great game. Demoing is time consuming.

I have a board game idea involving the ever-growing physical activity called parkour. I want the game to feel as free and evolutionary as the practice itself. So far, I've come up with the game being played on a multi-level platform as to allow all imaginary movements to be performed. I want to be able to incorporate everything from running to jumping, climbing, scaling, wall runs, precision jumps, vaults and underbars.