Welcome to Knight's Gambit Games!

About Knight's Gambit Games

Like many designers, I started making board games many years ago as a hobby. My first playable game, with the uninspired name War Columns, was an attempt to make a deck builder that had a strong positional element. After many months of play testing, design, and redesign it was… fine, I guess.

Over the years I completely redesigned War Columns from the ground up, turning the card game into a card driven semi-abstract game that eventually evolved into my first truly successful design: Gambit: The Pyre Wars.

I eventually sold Gambit to a well-known publisher, Slugfest Games, who are primarily known for the excellent Red Dragon Inn series of games. Unfortunately, rapidly changing economic realities beyond their control prevented them from actually releasing the game, so the rights reverted back to me.

While this was obviously disappointing, I want to make it clear that Slugfest Games was an absolute pleasure to work with, and they were more than fair with how they handled the situation. I would recommend them without hesitation to anyone who was considering doing business with them.

During the past few years, after taking a bit of a design break after completing Gambit, I took to designing again and started working on Points of Conflict, a more deterministic game than Gambit with almost no luck. Points started out as a pure two player game, like Gambit, but I've recently started working on a team based 2v2 version of the game which I think has real potential.

Recently, I developed By Other Means, a 3–4 player game about building your nation's global influence through diplomacy, military might, and economic domination. The twist is that while doing this you need to manage your own population's support for your government and even your opponent's regard for you. This is still in the early stages, but is moving along very nicely!

Finally, Fields of Amon Tar is a complete reboot of my very first game, War Columns. As I mentioned before, this is a positional card battling game where the goal is to capture fields that stand between you and your opponent. You each have five columns to deploy your armies and a leader to support them. You can either play one of eight pre-constructed decks or build your own from the growing card pool. While it still has a way to go, it's already much better than its predecessor.

All four games are fully playable on Boardweaver.com, and each has AI opponents (of varying competence levels) so you can try out each one. You'll need an account to play, but it's free!

Finally, if you're at all curious about any of the games I've mentioned, you can learn more by joining the Knight's Gambit Games Discord Channel. I hope to see you there!