Why losing can be a barometer of how good a game is: the experience of playing it can be so much of a joy in itself that victory doesn’t have to be the end-point.

A guide to bringing more converts to the game table. You will find tips and some left-field tricks here.

An ode to rojak/potpourri approaches to game design.

A look at Wordle and how game design embeds values that shape our conception of fun and fair play.

The second of two articles examining traditional games as a window into personal and family histories. Our marketing assistant Natasha interviewed her father Rahiyu to learn about carrom and its importance for camaraderie at his workplace.

The first of two articles examining traditional games as a window into personal and family histories. Our marketing executive Hazel interviewed her mother Yee Lee to learn about mahjong and how it shaped her childhood.

A board game meet-up that is a safe space for women. An online party game hangout that wards off pandemic blues. And a Dungeons & Dragons campaign that stimulates mental health discussions. These game groups attest to the power of well-built communities. Read all about them here.

After fulfilment of Kickstarter orders for Fly-A-Way, we got backers to share their feedback on our campaign. Based on their responses and other comments we’ve received, we’re sharing what we learnt about communication, design and logistics for crowdfunding.

For #Inktober2021, we’re celebrating birds from our region through #BirdtoberAsia. Illustrators, birders and all who love community art challenges are welcome to riff off our list of prompts…starting with the Blue-winged Pitta!

Reflections on board game spillover effects that affect your feeling and actions after play. Find out what such effects could mean for playtests.

Toffy Charupatanapongse, the voice of our How to Play video for Fly-A-Way, is an education development professional and writes here about the different ways games can be used to teach academic and non-academic skills.

Our designer Iris, who primarily played video games before working on our tabletop game Fly-A-Way, shares how board games have enhanced her appreciation of game design, across mediums and platforms.

How do we approach branding and design? And what’s a ‘talking tail’ got to do with our identity as a game company? Dive into this anatomy of our logo to find out.

This is the origin story of Playlogue Creations. Find out how and why we decided to form a game company that brings “play” and “dialogue” together.

From working on editorial and design projects, we ventured into game development. Here’s an overview of the strengths we could leverage and the new ones we had to develop during our transformation.

From finessing our rule book to bettering our game design, we were able to improve our tabletop game Fly-A-Way, thanks to the support of fellow game designers and gamers. This post is dedicated to these wonderful people.

We launched Fly-A-Way on Kickstarter on 23 November 2020. It was the culmination of months of playtests and game refinements. Read this for a rundown of our design process and the various considerations we had when developing a game on bird migration.