Stonemaier Streams

In some ways, Wingspan Pocket is one of our smallest games. It’s only around 6x4x2 inches, it only takes 30 minutes to play, and it asks each player to manage only 1 row of bird cards. Yet by another metric it is our biggest game, as there are 175,000 units in the first English print run, by far the most in our 14-year history.

With that much at stake, we really, really needed to get it right.

 

https://stonemaiergames.com/elevating-wingspan-pocket-ppc-product-design-playtests/

I discuss my favorite new-to-me games (including expansions and sequels) of 2026 (January-June). This is not limited to 2026 releases.

 

https://youtu.be/v7fCV7jf0c4

Gabe Barrett runs Best With 1 Games, and over the last few years I've seen him adapt a really interesting strategy for creating and launching games. With their latest game, Stonefall, in its final days on Gamefound, Gabe was kind to take some time to answer questions about his methods.

 

https://stonemaiergames.com/34671-2/

Join Jamey and special guest Elizabeth to learn about Wingspan Pocket!

 

https://youtube.com/live/6JCCSCGdKng

A long time ago in a fulfillment center far, far away, Stonemaier Games offered a few ala carte options to webstore customers. Glass beads for Viticulture, plastic mechs for Scythe, metal coins for Charterstone...these were all included in their respective games, but sometimes people wanted more/extras.

 

https://stonemaiergames.com/why-ala-carte-isnt-feasible-at-scale/