Formal Ferret Games – Games that steal your heart

April Fool’s Day and game promotion

Fifteen years ago, when the modern tech company was still being formed, April Fool’s Day was amazing. Their pranks were unexpected and delightful, and the sense of surprise was genuine. (It’s possible that, if I were as old, cynical, and crusty then as I am now, I wouldn’t recall it so fondly. YMMV. Anyway.) These […]

Introducing The Networks: Telly Time!

The Networks: Telly Time is an mini-expansion for The Networks that I’ve been wanting to do for a while – a set of Shows based on classic British television! I will release this mini-expansion at UK Games Expo in 2018. It will be available in retail worldwide soon afterwards. Note that you must have The Networks base game in order to play Telly Time! The base […]

Formal Ferret 2018 Convention Schedule

2017 was an amazing year for Formal Ferret Games, and part of the reason was an ambitious convention schedule. I attended all 10 conventions on my schedule last year, and The Gathering of Friends made it 11. So of course, this year, I will be at more. It’ll be 13 events in total, plus the GoF. And that […]

My convention schedule for the rest of 2017: FalCon, Essen, Metatopia, and BGG.CON

I looked at my calendar and realized that I’ve booked myself for four conventions in the next six weeks! How do I get myself into these situations?! Nevertheless, here we are. If you’re attending any of these shows, come by and say hi! FalCon October 13-15 Stamford, CT This is the most informal of the […]

Play The Networks and Wordsy at a game store near you!

Thanks to my friends at Double Exposure’s Envoy program, you can learn to play my games Wordsy and The Networks at a game store near you this weekend and next! (Alas, this offer only applies to my friends in the US. Hopefully we can organize an event outside my country soon!) Here’s how it works. […]

The Networks

Welcome to the TV business! You are the owner of a new television network. All you have are three awful

High Rise

High Rise is currently out of stock, but you can pre-order it from the next print run here! The sky’s the

Check-In Cards

Check in with your friends! Check-In Cards is not a game. It is a tool that allows players to check

Weird Stories

Weird Stories is a one-shot, zero-prep, dice-less, and GM-less story game where players will tell stories similar to the films

Wordsy

Wordsy is a game of longer words! Over the seven rounds of the game, you are trying to find

Bad Medicine

A little game about Big Pharma. Bad Medicine is a party game about pharmaceutical companies making awful drugs. It’s quick,