GeekList: TRUE story of life of a game company, BGG and me.
March 31, 2006TRUE story of life of a game company, BGG and me, a GeekList by Paul DeStefano is pretty amazing tale of, well, the life of a game company and Paul DeStefano.
Mike Doyle’s Art Play: Modern Art Preview
March 30, 2006Mike Doyle is redeveloping Knizia’s auction classic, Modern Art. Every month from now until September, the game’s projected launch, he will showcase a new card.
BGG Thread: A Crusade Historian’s Review
It is great to read a proper historian endorsing a wargame.
Penny Lane
On Boardgame News, David Fair does his twist on five-and-dime lists–detailing the games he’s played only once. There are a lot of them; this is merely (?) the first installment.
He embeds an interesting point in there about themes: “Of course, the theme on this one [Mermaid Rain] is pretty out-there, and that might have some part in [why it only got played once]. Although we play a lot of games with themes at least as odd and never say a word about them. I mean, no one says ‘Boo’ about a game where the theme is retrieving dragon eggs or moving sheep around in a herd, but play one game about being a mermaid looking for her man…”
Yehuda: More on why we play games
March 29, 2006Yehuda lists a bunch of reasons why we play games in his blog entry More on why we play games. It’s good food for thought.
Rick Thornquist: The Great Gateway Games
Rick Thornquist’s blog entry The Great Gateway Games is a good overview of gateway games, and it also has interesting discussion in the comments.
Boing Boing: Nontransitive dice — how to win every time
March 26, 2006I am surprised this works.
Gone Gaming: A Theory of Board Game Design: Definitions of Terms
March 24, 2006Shannon Appelcline presents us some Definitions of Terms regarding board game design. I’m looking forward to the articles where he actually uses these terms; Shannon’s writing on game design is excellent reading.
Treehouse
March 23, 2006A new official Icehouse game: Treehouse. Only needs one Icehouse stash plus a d6. Looks like a simple fun game in the tradition of Fluxx.
BoardgameSpeak - The Return of King Aldie
After several months’ break, BoardgameSpeak is back, with a new and mercifully shorter format. This edition is 45 minutes dedicated to a discussion of Elasund.
