I’m Myles and I’m a board game designer and developer. I am devoted to creating fun, accessible games that bring people together.
Below is a portfolio of my games. I am also available for hire as a freelance game developer and rulebook editor. You can email me to learn more.
Weight/Audience: Light, Families and Casual Gamers
Mechanics: Pattern building / press-your-luck
Status: Available to publishers
Aquarium: Catch and Release Card Game
You are in a fishy business! You only have a few hours and a couple casts of your net in order to catch the best sea creatures for your aquarium. On your turn, draw and discard up to 3 times until you find a card you want; then add the card to your aquarium to score points. But beware—you may get a shark!
Weight/Audience: Light, Casual Gamers
Mechanics: Cooperative, hand management
Status: Available to publishers
Beach Vacay
It’s time for some fun in the sun! In this lightweight, relaxing game, you are all trying to have the most groovy beach vacation. Play cooperatively to build sand castles or read or take walks in the sand, but you also balance these activities with keeping the vacation “vibe” going.
Weight/Audience: Medium, Gamers
Mechanics: Action programming, tech upgrades, contract fulfillment
Status: Available to publishers
Belt-R-Bust
It’s your first day on the job in Belt-R-Bust Inc., the 22nd largest asteroid mining company in the galaxy. Here, the boss believes in trial by fire. The first player to blast asteroids, grab ore, and complete 26 credits worth of contracts will be allowed to keep their new job! Everyone else is sent packing…possibly through an air lock.
Weight/Audience: Light, Families
Mechanics: Speed, word building, bluffing
Status: Available to publishers
Bluff Words
Bluff Words! combines speed, word building, and bluffing. In this party game, you will be challenging each other’s word skills and racing to use letters to complete words. When the draw deck runs out, the player with the least points wins.
Weight/Audience: Light, Gamers
Mechanics: Deck exploration, leveling up, dice combat
Status: Available to publishers
Creepy Crawl
Creepy Crawl is a 15-30 minute dungeon crawl solo game. Play as one of five unique heroes: Darian, Shay-largh, Ash, Flynn, or Wavecrest in your quest to survive a creepy dungeon. Level up your character, grab special items, and kick down doors! But you can’t leave before facing one of five terrifying bosses!
Weight/Audience: Light, Families
Mechanics: Roll-and-write, bingo, market timing
Status: Available to publishers
Farm Rollers
You have finally realized your dream of owning a small family farm, but this is a hard business and will need financial backing from the local bank. In this roll and write, market timing game, compete with other players over 12 months to rapidly update your farm, feed your livestock, and sell produce for a profit. Only the most profitable farm will get financial backing needed to survive.
Weight/Audience: Medium, Gamers
Mechanics: Roll and write / 4X
Status: Available to publishers
Galactic Rollers
The Admiral is very busy: she’s been tasked with taking over yet another galaxy for the empire. That’s why she’s turned to you, her Strategy Clerks, to simultaneously plot out the fastest way to gain control the galaxy by taking over all 10 planets through settling, conquering, and trading. Whoever plans the most efficiently in this roll and write game will be promoted to Junior Admiral! Galaxy Rollers distills the experience of a 4X space game into a crunchy 45 minute roll and write.
Audience: Families, Casual, Kids
Mechanics: Drafting
Status: Available to publishers
Zoo Builder
Let’s build a zoo! In Zoo Builders players will draft animals, visitors, and exhibits in order to build the best zoo and score the most points. A great entry-level drafting game, adults can have fun playing with their children and both will learn about animals from around the world! Recommended ages 6+, 2-4 players, and plays in about 20 minutes.
