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Planet Smasher Games

Planet Smasher Games is an independent tabletop games studio founded by Mike Hutchinson in 2015. I make unreasonably fun tabletop miniature games including Gaslands, A Billion Suns, Hobgoblin and Perilous Tales.

Planet Smasher Games
This is the year I succeed or fail with Planet Smasher Games. Gimme a few minutes to tell you my plan. --- CHECK OUT MY KICKSTARTER PREVIEW PAGES: * Space Gits: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/planetsmashergames/space-gits-miniatures-game * The Crawling Chaos: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/planetsmashergames/the-crawling-chaos --- PLANET SMASHER DISCORD https://discord.gg/q6sShQ9mZh If you want to chat about any of my games, come hang out in the official Planet Smasher Games Discord server. Its sort of the digital equivalent of dropping by my gaming shed. Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson.
Can Planet Smasher Games survive 2025?
Let me know you what I've been up to in the studio over the last month, and what I have planned for the New Year. Check out PSG on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/16919/planet-smasher-games --- ALL MY NEW GAMES! * Rotvärlden: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/rotvarlden-realms-of-carnage * Space Gits: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/space-gits * Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/rad-pirates-of-the-toxic-sands * Crudbucket: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/crudbucket * Flicking H*ck: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/flicking-heck * Perilous Tales: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/perilous-tales * The Crawling Chaos: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/the-crawling-chaos * The Fundamentals of Tabletop Miniature Game Design: https://www.routledge.com/The-Fundamentals-of-Tabletop-Miniatures-Game-Design-A-Designers-Handbook/Ford-Hutchinson/p/book/9781032324012 --- PLANET SMASHER DISCORD https://discord.gg/q6sShQ9mZh If you want to chat about any of these games, come hang out in the official Planet Smasher Games Discord server. Its sort of the digital equivalent of dropping by my gaming shed. Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson.
Dev Diary 31: December in the Studio
It's a year since I took the (frankly insane) decision to quit my job and make tabletop games full time. Over the last month I focused on making something REAL out of all that effort. The results: I have a huge pile of freshly baked tabletop gaming goodies to show and tell. * Rotvärlden: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/rotvarlden-realms-of-carnage * Space Gits: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/space-gits * Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/rad-pirates-of-the-toxic-sands * Crudbucket: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/crudbucket * Flicking H*ck: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/flicking-heck * Perilous Tales: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/perilous-tales * The Crawling Chaos: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/the-crawling-chaos * The Fundamentals of Tabletop Miniature Game Design: https://www.routledge.com/The-Fundamentals-of-Tabletop-Miniatures-Game-Design-A-Designers-Handbook/Ford-Hutchinson/p/book/9781032324012 TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:35 Skip Intro 05:06 The Reveal! 05:59 Rotvärlden 07:28 Space Gits 08:36 Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands 09:25 Crudbucket 10:58 Flicking H*ck 13:13 Perilous Tales 15:51 The Crawling Chaos 20:00 The Plan 23:40 More Games To Come! 25:42 Outro PLANET SMASHER DISCORD https://discord.gg/q6sShQ9mZh If you want to chat about any of these games, come hang out in the official Planet Smasher Games Discord server. Its sort of the digital equivalent of dropping by my gaming shed. I make boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson.
I spent a year designing tabletop games
I teach ex-Warhammer Loremaster Gav Thorpe how to play HOBGOBLIN, my game of brutal fantasy battles. We play upon his luxury gaming mat: the goblin green cloth of grudges! Buy HOBGOBLIN today: https://planetsmashergames.com/hobgoblin/ --- PLANET SMASHER DISCORD https://discord.gg/q6sShQ9mZh If you want to chat about any of these games, come hang out in the official Planet Smasher Games Discord server. Its sort of the digital equivalent of dropping by my gaming shed. Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson, who also helped out with the editing, the total dude.
Learn To Play HOBGOBLIN with Gav Thorpe
My goodies from the Hobgoblin Kickstarter campaign have arrived! Let's take a look together! Buy Hobgoblin here: https://planetsmashergames.com/hobgoblin --- PLANET SMASHER DISCORD https://discord.gg/q6sShQ9mZh If you want to chat about any of these games, come hang out in the official Planet Smasher Games Discord server. Its sort of the digital equivalent of dropping by my gaming shed. Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson, who also did the editing. Thanks dude!
Hobgoblin Kickstarter Unboxing
It's been a little while since I posted a general update on what's been happening at Planet Smasher HQ. It's been an exciting summer... let me bring you up to speed! * Learn more about A Billion Suns: Second Edition here: https://planetsmashergames.com/news/a-billion-suns-second-edition-coming-in-2026/ * Download Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands here: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/rad-pirates-of-the-toxic-sands * Download the Space Gits early access here: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/space-gits DISCLAIMER: In this video I mention some projects that are only at the pitching stage, and may never see the light of day. However, at the start of the year I committed to be as transparent as possible and share everything I was able to, even if this means sometimes setting expectations I can't be sure I'm going to deliver on. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:33 Skip Intro 01:30 Pitching a Gaslands board game 05:48 Pitching Berserker 06:38 Rad Pirates of the Toxic Sands 11:00 Space Gits 12:09 Untitled Car Flicking Game 13:32 More Berserker 14:09 A Billion Suns: 2nd Edition 19:11 Outro PLANET SMASHER DISCORD https://discord.gg/q6sShQ9mZh If you want to chat about any of these games, come hang out in the official Planet Smasher Games Discord server. Its sort of the digital equivalent of dropping by my gaming shed. Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson.
I have many secrets to tell you...
Malev (designer of Pit Lord and Demonship) had a blindingly good idea last month: why not design a game that requires just a single box of minis?! He then threw the gauntlet down to other designers to pick up their dice and pens and design their own One Box Wargame! See Malev's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG8IhzpMk8Y Before you know it, Wargames Atlantic are sponsoring the game jam, making it a competition, and have agreed to publish the winning game! If you are thinking about taking part in the One Box Wargame challenge, he are my top tips for designing a miniatures game from scratch! Learn about the competition here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/one-box-wargame-challenge Get involved by joining the Rule of Carnage Discord (we are hosting the competition): https://discord.com/invite/Gb4aK7uECh ---- 00:00 Intro 01:57 Tip #1 03:04 Tip #2 04:03 Tip #3 04:59 Tip #4 05:50 Tip #5 07:05 Writing Your Rulebook 08:33 Outro ---- Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Download my early access games: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/ Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson. ---- For the search juice: this video was made by Mike Hutchinson, the award-winning designer of miniatures games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled, and A Billions Suns, all published by Osprey Games, and Hobgoblin, published by Electi Studio.
Design your first minis game! #oneboxwargame
Last year I picked up the 10mm Micro Gaslands set from ROK Minis last year. It's well overdue an unboxing! Buy the set here: https://www.rokminis.com/product-page/post-apocalyptic-racing-set-gaslands-templates Micro-scale Gaslands templates are also available from these find Friends of Gaslands: UK: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/756940360/gaslands-micro-maneuver-template-set US: https://www.etsy.com/listing/625292735/micro-scale-acrylic-gaslands-templates ---- Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Download my early access games: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/ Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson. ---- For the search juice: this video was made by Mike Hutchinson, the award-winning designer of miniatures games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled, and A Billions Suns, all published by Osprey Games, and Hobgoblin, published by Electi Studio.
Unboxing the 10mm Gaslands set from ROK Minis
I made a sports game. It's like basketball, but you are hurling poop into a bucket. I wasn’t planning on making a Blood Bowl type tabletop sports game, but a nice man made a cover illustration for it… and, well, now we have Crudbucket! Let me tell you how it happened. Download Crudbucket in early access here: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/crudbucket Patreon supporters can have it for free: https://planetsmashergames.itch.io/crudbucket/patreon-access Please consider supporting me on Patreon. When you do, you’ll get free access to all my early access games on Itch. ---- Crudbucket is a #chess28 game. What’s one of those? It is a tabletop miniatures game that adheres to the chess28 manifesto. *The #chess28 Manifesto* We seek to liberate the chess board from a millennium of tedium. Let the richly-painted warriors of a thousand worlds battle across their checkered fields! Let the clatter of dice despoil their cold and logical perfection! Let the chess board be a playground of the imagination! 1. We demand that chess be miniatures-agnostic. If a game prostitutes the chess board to the pageantry of painted figures, let it be #chess28. 2. We demand that chess submit to the capricious whims of fate. If a game corrupts the use of the chess board by admitting chance, let it be #chess28. 3. 28mm is a lie. #chess28 cares nothing for scale. If a miniature fits upon a chess square, let it be #chess28. Read more here: https://planetsmashergames.com/chess28/ ---- Planet Smasher Games makes boutique miniature games for the highly-evolved tabletop gamer. I share my design and development process so you can see what I'm up to. For the search juice: this video was made by Mike Hutchinson, the award-winning game designer of tabletop miniatures games such as Gaslands, Gaslands: Refuelled, and A Billions Suns, all published by Osprey Games, and Hobgoblin: Brutal Fantasy Battles, published by Electi Studio. Check out my games: https://planetsmashergames.com Check out my podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/RuleofCarnage Support what I do: https://www.patreon.com/planetsmashergames Music by Chris Hutchinson. [Dev Diary 24.025]
I made a fantasy sports minis game in 2 days!
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