Goodbye 2024! Hello 2025! It’s gonna be big.
Summing up 2024 is impossible. I just need to post more on this blog. But here are a few bullet points:
Launched Gnome Hollow with the Op!
Epic GenCON!
I went to Essen Germany! First trip outside of North America!
Gnome Hollow was nominated for a TOTY Game of the Year Award!
I signed Twinkle Twinkle to Allplay!
I went to 14 Board Game Conventions
I illustrated 3 games.
I did graphic design (Rulebooks, box design, etc) for 7 games
I did art direction for 5 games in 2024
I signed Space Potato to Envy Born Games! This game ROCKS! (thats an asteroid pun)
I co-founded UP games with David Gordon, TAM, and Greg May (Upgames)
We prepared a game for a 2025 launch! (Keep an eye out for Floristry!)
I worked on Co-designs with 4 other game designers and we have several interested publishers!
I began development on 8 new games this year, and have seen major progress on many of them.
I spoke at Ohio State University as a paid speaker (My first public speaking engagment)
I spoke at University of Utah
I did like a hundred podcasts… OMG, so many podcasts and online plays!
I did numerous panels at board game conventions
I created 15 new sticker sets for Levity Games
I bought a new MacBook Pro! Boy did I need this!
I got my first every royalty check!
My wife and I had 1 daughter in college, 2 seniors in High School, 1 sophomore, and a Jr. High Student!
I went to the Dog Park almost 200 days to give my sweet boy Chewie some healthy recreation time.
I made literally thousands of new friends in this amazing board game community.
I survived another car wreck at 70mph with Mathue Ryan. Boy were we lucky!
I begin a huge new project that I will be sharing later this year!
I worked an average of 90 hours a week in 2024
I bought the Mini-fridge I deserve.
This is not an exhaustive list of accomplishments from 2024, but it’s beyond EXHAUSTING! I have never done more in such a short time. I look back on 2024, and it’s a gigantic ramp into the future. I am not sure how I am going to finish all the work I began.
I plan to find ways to bring more balance to my life. Spend more time with my incredible wife. Make more memories with my kids as I chase down the continuing projects and goals as I continue my record pace of work into 2025. I wish you all the happiest new year!
-Ammon