Archive for the ‘Sinister Design News’ Category

Together in Battle now has a final release date!

After nearly two years in Early Access, Together in Battle is now nearly complete. I’m pleased to announce the date of its version 1.0 release: May 6th, 2025! In case you’ve somehow avoided hearing about Together in Battle up to this point: Together in Battle is a fantasy gladiator SRPG…

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Success!

I’m pleased to write that our Kickstarter campaign for True Messiah succeeded, ending with us about 112% funded! In so doing, we hit our first two stretch goals: (1) the prosperity monolith tiles and (2) one distinct starting card for each of the four messiahs. The prosperity monolith tiles are…

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The True Messiah Kickstarter is up!

New: due to a last-minute quote from a new manufacturer that hugely undercuts those of their competitors, I’ve been able to slash the funding goal dramatically (and offer a discount on the base game to boot)! Kickstarter won’t let you make changes like this mid-campaign, so doing this required a…

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True Messiah Kickstarter campaign is go!

This is it, folks–True Messiah is now on Kickstarter! I first started developing True Messiah a little more than 13 years ago (that’s about 3 years before I  taught myself Flash and came out with Telepath RPG Chapter 1!) True Messiah was originally called “Messiah: A Game of Cult Warfare,”…

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Announcing True Messiah

Hello everyone! I’m pleased as punch to announce Sinister Design’s very first board game–True Messiah, a game of cult warfare. Whoa, wait–a board game?! Yup! Here’s the premise: It is the near future; Earth. Years ago, scientists successfully constructed the Belief Engine, a machine that warps reality based on peoples’…

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Telepath Tactics: brass tacks and sales stats, Part 1

I’ve posted a lot about the development of Telepath Tactics: my design philosophy, my month-to-month progress, and so on. Now, a couple of months out from the game’s release, I want to take an in-depth look at Telepath Tactics from a financial standpoint. Prior to Telepath Tactics’s release, I did…

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Telepath Tactics has been released!

It’s finally happened! After years of work, Telepath Tactics has finally been released! You can buy Telepath Tactics direct from me right here for $14.99: Windows   |   Mac   |   Linux* You can also find Telepath Tactics on Steam (where it is currently Windows-only, though I’ll be adding Mac and Linux…

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Telepath Tactics release date!

Hello, everyone! It is my pleasure to announce an official release date for Telepath Tactics: April 16, 2015. It’s been a long long journey, but the end is in sight at last! “Now wait a minute, Craig,” you might be saying, “I remember you saying that this would be releasing…

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