Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 2:07AM We did it! We reached the funding goal for Puzzle Strike 3rd Edition + the Shadows expansion on kickstarter. It took less than 2 days, wow. I hope we can keep going way more though and reach the stretch goals to put some more components in the box. Thanks to everyone who supported us so far.
Also, we are now the #1 Staff pick on Kickstarter, too!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 1:02AM Help bring Puzzle Strike to the people with our kickstarter project!
The standalone expansion to Puzzle Strike as well as a redesigned base set have been a long time in the making. The online version at www.fantasystrike.com has been adjusted and adjusted based on both tournament play and casual play, and I'd really like to lock it down and get the physical version totally in sync with the online version.
Puzzle Strike Shadows has 10 new characters, 24 new puzzle chips, new gameplay modes including a free-for-all mode with no player elimination (wowow!), a 2v2 Team battle mode, and a customization mode. Hopefully it will have even more components too, depending on how the stretch goals go. The base set has been retro-fitted with all that same great stuff, and the puzzle chips powered up to be more useful than ever.
Thanks in advance for supporting the kickstarter campaign, current and future Puzzle Strikers!
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 12:17PM I just got back from PAX East 2012, and Sirlin Games was in full effect at the Game Salute booth. Check out the banners:
We had a demo area for people to learn Yomi, Puzzle Strike, and Flash Duel and people were playing my games every minute the show was open all three days. Wow! There was also a Yomi tournament:
And a Puzzle Strike tournament:
We've been seriously lacking with any presence at conventions so far, so it was amazing to finally get things going at PAX East. My games will appear at the Game Salute booth at several upcoming conventions, and I really hope we can do more events. These games were made for competitive play!
Oh by the way, I won the PAX East tournament for Street Fighter HD Remix. ;)
(I played Fei Long and Sagat.)
Monday, March 26, 2012 at 2:58PM 
In celebration of Puzzle Strike's 1.75th year anniversary, the base game + Upgrade Pack together are only $50 (wowow) for the next couple weeks, or while supplies last. If you've been waiting on trying out the game, here's your chance to get those playmats, screens with amusing 8-bit art, and extra puzzle chips, and rebalanced characters for FREE. And yes they fit in the box, by the way.
Also if any of you are going to PAX East in a couple weeks, note that there's an official Puzzle Strike tournament at noon on Friday, April 6th, as well as copies available to play on your own from the game library, and demos of the game at the Game Salute booth. There's an official Yomi tournament too at PAX East, at 5:30pm the same day.
If you'd like to volunteer to help out at PAX East or any other events, you can do so by signing up here. Game Salute gives you free stuff for helping out too. Thanks in advance for the help, and to the entire Puzzle Strike player community!
Monday, March 12, 2012 at 1:55AM A lot of stuff has happened in the past week. First, there was the Game Developer's Conference, and you can read (a whole lot of words) about my personal experiences with it here:
Next, Yomi received a Best Card Game award from Bestcovery. Yomi stands among Dominion, King of Tokyo, Apples to Apples, and UNO on the Best Card Games list on Bestcovery.com.
Games With Two also reviewed both Yomi and Puzzle Strike in the last week:
And there's more! PAX East will have both an official Yomi tournament and an official Puzzle Strike tournament on the convention's tournament schedule. There will also be demos of Sirlin Games at the Game Salute booth. We could use your help in running those tournaments and in doing demos of Yomi, Puzzle Strike, and/or Flash Duel, too. If you're interested in helping out, please sign up at gamesalute.com/volunteer. You can also sign up to help out at other conventions such as GenCon and Origins at that same link. I think our whole community would be grateful to anyone willing to be an ambassador to introduce new players to our games, so thanks in advance.
And one more thing. Sirlin Games has had a distributor in Canada for some time now: Lion Rampant. And now we have a distributor in Germany, too: Brave New World. German stores (or stores anywhere in the world) can still order from Game Salute at gamestorelocator.com, but now German stores can go through the channels they're more used to going through, and they can probably save on shipping cost, too. If you're in Germany, now's your chance support your local stores, and tell them to sign up with Brave New World and carry Sirlin Games if they haven't already.
It was quite a week! And thanks to all of you for making Flash Duel our latest success!
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