https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog daily 0.75 2025-05-23 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/finalist monthly 0.5 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/e19284cd-2ccd-480a-a4cb-bae45f55db77/Screenshot+2025-05-18+at+9.08.36%E2%80%AFAM+%282%29.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Finalist! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/my-kickstarter-experience monthly 0.5 2025-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1b8253f4-544b-49df-a863-8d483c298d77/IMG_7135.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - My First Kickstarter - We weren’t going to use his existing social accounts; we’d start a brand new one. I have started zero-follower accounts before and knew the challenges of building a following from scratch, but I also knew I would have really good content to work with. I quickly ruled out the Bird site, where the board game world had once thrived. It wasn’t until after the election I would discover that community was slowly migrating to Bluesky at the expense of Threads. If we were launching today, though, I would go with Bluesky (let’s go ahead and do that!). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/854b6bb7-ed06-4b4b-be3b-c8e2118990ba/zpg-overview.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - My First Kickstarter - Last Fall I was lucky enough to join a team that ran a successful Kickstarter campaign. It was for Z Photo Game, “a clever take on the targeted clues and voting mechanisms that delightfully mixes a photographer’s portfolio with a party game.” The game’s designer is Steve Zmak, who is himself a fine art photographer and graphic designer. He dipped into his expansive collection to create a 209-card deck using his original photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1742342500646-4TXYGPS85X5NKPS9VD21/IMG_7136.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - My First Kickstarter - Example post two days out Three cows drinking from a water trough near the Point Sur lighthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1742342500071-F9GUOO6NNPG2SKF4JKOQ/IMG_7137.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - My First Kickstarter - Mixing humor with fear? Post caption encouraging the visitor to pledge their support for the Kickstarter campaign. Click to read it on Instagram. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/chess monthly 0.5 2025-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/c81be929-e5e0-4f0b-a0d2-b6dc6dfa8773/double.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Chess Expansions - Double Crossed! This expansion requires the players to switch two of the same pieces, thus exposing them as spies behind enemy lines. Each player then has to finish their deadly assignments before being captured. If one can make it back to safety, though, it exposes the other, and that player loses their piece: “Roll a d6 at the start of the match. The result is the number of turns later you will roll again for the type of piece you will switch with your opponent (1/2-rook, 3/4=bishop, 5/6=knight). The first piece that makes it back to one of the four rows on their side of the board remains in play; the other piece gets removed. Otherwise, each piece remains in normal play.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/51e506c5-f4e9-4475-9e5c-04e07b5a87d7/lava3.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Chess Expansions - Lava! This expansion opens a volcanic vent under a defeated bishop and its attacker. The vent then issues forth a lava flow, destroying everything in its path and rendering itself impassable. Each turn allows the flow to meander across the board until all hope is lost and the match ends in a draw due to geographic isolation: “The first bishop removed from the board opens a volcanic vent rendering that square impassable because of a lava flow (i.e. place a coin). Each turn, roll a d6 twice. The first roll is the direction of the lava flow (1/2/3-orthogonal, 4/5/6-diagonal). The second roll is the location you'll place an additional coin, removing any piece in the way (1/2/3/4-location, 5/6=no flow).” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/d2ca823f-831e-4e39-87c5-a1a3de6af819/invisible.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Chess Expansions - Invisible Put a rubber band around a piece of your choice that isn’t a pawn or the King. Your opponent cannot attack it the rest of the match unless it attacks another piece or puts the King in check. Then it becomes fair game for the rest of the match: “Put a rubber band around a piece of your choice that isn't a pawn or the King. Your opponent cannot see it the rest of the match unless it attacks another piece or puts the King in check. Then it becomes visible for the rest of the match.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/fbdb6ccb-2332-429a-8f1a-a2e472de95e7/lava-accepted.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Chess Expansions - Make it stand out “When the first bishop is removed from play, place a coin on the space to represent a sudden volcanic eruption. Any piece on lava is immediately removed from play. Only knights may jump over lava. The lava flow continues to spread once in play. At the beginning of each player's turn: add another coin to any square adjacent to the lava flow (orthogonally or diagonally).” https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/tables monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/59779238-6409-4862-b4a6-6e63c9b6462f/Screenshot+2025-03-02+at+11.04.52%E2%80%AFAM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Tables - Let’s use the four-person game Azul as an example. With eight players, we created two tables of four. Table 1 is named “Lisbon,” and Table 2 is named “Porto.” At Lisbon, we placed the four players with the highest ratings (ELO) on BGA. The lowest-rated players sat at Porto. When each game was done, the two losing players at Lisbon moved down to play their next game at Porto. The two winners at Porto moved up to Lisbon. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/soccer-54 monthly 0.5 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1732567512711-YRYJ76OF0ZUTPZDKIVX8/IMG_5667.JPG Haole Boy Games - Blog - Soccer 54 - Broadcasting Greg (right) providing color commentary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1732567505051-PAQYETTZ6F5407LU8D9U/IMG_5712.JPG Haole Boy Games - Blog - Soccer 54 - Playtesting Playtest of Soccer 54 in Arcata CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/e0894381-5fc5-4123-82ca-29b6757641e9/Screenshot+2024-11-26+at+9.45.39%E2%80%AFAM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Soccer 54 - Make it stand out Early playtest version of Soccer 54 on PlayingCards.io https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/the-bats-of-limekiln monthly 0.5 2022-08-20 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/rapid-prototyping monthly 0.5 2022-07-09 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/meeple-emoji-v2 monthly 0.5 2022-08-02 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/playtest-and-overview monthly 0.5 2022-03-11 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/road-log-and-science monthly 0.5 2022-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1645383449021-L65JSF4GSVGL0ST3NFYI/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-02-19%2Bat%2B11.36.31%2BAM.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - Road Log and Science - Road Log (Cargo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1645383546491-YL0Y4DHIMFIRB0VGBSWR/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-02-19%2Bat%2B10.15.03%2BAM.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - Road Log and Science - Science (Sailors) https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/lava monthly 0.5 2022-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1df54b9d-fdb7-4bdf-a540-7e9d674c09cd/Screen+Shot+2022-01-28+at+12.31.49+PM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Lava! - It’s 1972. There are no cell phones or social media, and you’ve just witnessed an eruption of lava in your Los Angeles neighborhood. You’re a failed master’s student in geology with a dollar to your name and an AMC Gremlin, but now it’s your job to convince all of LA to get the f*#& out of there! https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/move-to-screentop monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1641920346741-WKDSJLUBFCRSR44ZXOV7/Screen+Shot+2022-01-10+at+11.58.50+AM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Move to Screentop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/meeple-emoji monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/bga-in-irl monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1628558719362-8FYZMOIUZMTE2BSMQQAT/IMG_3598+%281%29.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - BGA in IRL - Game Bag Can you spot the one game that isn’t on Board Game Arena? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1628558719795-9XNCWZ9PC3GILLGYLPT7/IMG_3695.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - BGA in IRL - Paw Print Clearly, we should have invited the raccoons to play with us! https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/spielmas-4th-of-july monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1625525886943-XAZGKRIJGPYCD8X2SX32/IMG_3438.JPG Haole Boy Games - Blog - SpielMas - Fourth of July - My daughter has been carving from avocado stones, so I used them for our display. In honor of Jimi Hendrix, July 4 was rockin’! https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/ginger-and-denali monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1619618258818-UO0NCJ71RMTDQFDWVDCG/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+6.49.04+AM.PNG Haole Boy Games - Blog - Ginger and Denali My cat in Blender after importing an SVG. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1619618534215-4HQWHMC1RFE5OVPA7U0A/Screen+Shot+2021-04-20+at+11.14.37+AM.PNG Haole Boy Games - Blog - Ginger and Denali - My cats in Tabletop Simulator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1619618595791-21HHKTEXLV6YR2ZS9ZTV/IMG_0076.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - Ginger and Denali - Denali and Ginger https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/kitty-takes-a-walk monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1612106003692-LXOWD8AFNIY0AZCDLU5E/Screen+Shot+2021-01-23+at+7.12.00+PM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Kitty takes a walk - player mat From Tabletop Simulator, with a cat card stand for a turn marker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1612105702432-XP8FW2NFXDBTDGFYV5YX/File_001.jpeg Haole Boy Games - Blog - Kitty takes a walk - new akamai cards kamaʻāina, haole and mālama https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1612105702504-Q0OZLD0D1VQB5BU8H5FH/File_003.jpeg Haole Boy Games - Blog - Kitty takes a walk - the cat from Snorta https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/akamai monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1608663922430-4COBHW7QYPXS5GFHHB4H/Tabletop+simulator+version+of+the+player+mat Haole Boy Games - Blog - Akamai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1608665401499-4QSVV8Y8HRUMV5RIAZ54/Screen+Shot+2020-12-22+at+11.29.17+AM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Akamai https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/cats-lava-and-methane monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1604369212902-Q2N4HNZQ47R7LZ49NEFB/Greg+Pool+%28left%29+near+the+Kamoamoa+black+sand+beach. Haole Boy Games - Blog - Cats, lava and methane Greg Pool (left) near the Kamoamoa black sand beach in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1607543009292-3MYGSO6W32I0KTAJSGFG/Screen+Shot+2020-12-09+at+10.57.40+AM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - Cats, lava and methane Early prototype of Pōpoki in Tabletop Simulator. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/diy-chess-sets monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1606896334286-N0EJG28UTCYM5O6QMPVL/hardware+store+chess+set Haole Boy Games - Blog - DIY Chess Sets https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/spielmas-a-dry-run monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1606666595375-DLQ33UVTJKQDB7W0TW2I/IMG_1827.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - SpielMas - a dry run - Thanksgiving Dry Run My display in celebration of the SpielMas festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1606666619145-SUSPTTPJL585JLZ5HME0/IMG_1833.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - SpielMas - a dry run - The Queen's Gambit I left out the board for my daughter to play Chess with me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1606668257025-PRSFFMAVA6W4ASF558QA/IMG_1809.jpg Haole Boy Games - Blog - SpielMas - a dry run - Little Free Library I donated another game to my local Little Free Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1606666787365-YNRK47YW38AVJEDB2AP6/Screen+Shot+2020-11-28+at+11.03.46+AM.png Haole Boy Games - Blog - SpielMas - a dry run - Everdell My ending player mat in the Tabletop Simulator version of Everdell. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/bgghome monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1606316072047-0BTO01MD8WO5YWE6D7SY/3D+print+of+a+SpielMas+display%2C+with+four+meeples Haole Boy Games - Blog - BGG@Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1606291654662-IGNH8D9BLT6C9BVBGU3P/Alien+Frontiers+on+Tabletopia Haole Boy Games - Blog - BGG@Home Alien Frontiers on Tabletopia. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/league-catan monthly 0.5 2022-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1605107331212-UTFBWZ43KUM6MHK5Z3O0/camping+and+playing+Catan Haole Boy Games - Blog - A league of Catan Still staying up late playing Catan while camping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1605108114496-TOQBRR47TSIMHT9ZA8AH/setting+up+for+the+tournament%2C+with+ranks+1%2C4%2C5+and+8+playing+one+match%2C+and+2%2C3%2C6+and+7+playing+the+other. Haole Boy Games - Blog - A league of Catan Setting up for the double-elimination tournament, with a winner’s and loser’s bracket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1605107976120-G0UCKF8017BFBC9QFS8G/example+of+a+final+league+standing%2C+before+the+tournament+starts Haole Boy Games - Blog - A league of Catan Finals standings after seven games. Juliet gets the no. 1 seed because she has three more victory points than Benoit. https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/category/games monthly 0.5 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/tag/lava monthly 0.5 https://www.haoleboygames.com/blog/tag/popoki monthly 0.5 https://www.haoleboygames.com/home daily 1.0 2025-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1604257049333-EBAAI3TZDAA5A49FXEOY/Episode+51+a%27a+flow%2C+Kupaianaha+vent%2C+Kilauea+Volcano+%281992%29 Home - A local kine attitude towards game design. Episode 51 a'a flow, Kupaianaha vent, Kilauea Volcano (1992). 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Portfolio - About - After a decade as an earth scientist in Italy, Mexico, and Hawai’i, I began teaching K-12 science and technology classes. I returned to teach in higher education, where I eventually accepted various technology and marketing positions (LinkedIn profile). Image: Greg Pool in the Royal Gardens subdivision (1992). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1604369212902-Q2N4HNZQ47R7LZ49NEFB/Greg+Pool+%28left%29+near+the+Kamoamoa+black+sand+beach. Portfolio - About Greg Pool (left) near the recently-covered Kamoamoa campground in the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park in 1992. https://www.haoleboygames.com/portfolio/downloads monthly 0.5 2020-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1605104822365-37YVPFEGPNUTY63ZTSOI/IMG_0837.jpg Portfolio - Downloads League of Catan - a seven-game league with a double-elimination tournament. https://www.haoleboygames.com/portfolio/spielmas monthly 0.5 2020-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6041674b828967694ad80a/1604259789593-EVWYVCQPLX7E2G3WYVAB/logo.png Portfolio - SpielMas - In October 2020, I started a new festival to encourage you to play more tabletop games with your family and friends. SpielMas.com Origin story