Mike Doyle’s Art Play: Modern Art Released

November 29, 2006

Mike Doyle’s Brazilian Modern Art is released. It’s the most beautiful board game I’ve ever seen, I believe. So many clever ideas!

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The Tao of Gaming: Die Macher … revisited

November 27, 2006

In Die Macher … revisited, Brian Bankler offers some interesting variants to the classic political game.

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Games Journal: Gipf Review

November 21, 2006

Mitchell Thomashow’s review of Gipf (actually a Yinsh review) might be old, but it is a very inspired piece of board game writing that is still worth reading, even though the release of Pünct has slightly outdated it.

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Journal of Boardgame Design: Are Game Designers Auteurs?

November 7, 2006

Are Game Designers Auteurs? That’s a good question, and Jonathan Degann answers it in detail.

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Gamer’s Mind: Qualities of Great Games

Ekted lists some Qualities of Great Games in his blog.

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Gone Gaming: Winning Alternatives

November 1, 2006

Yehuda’s article Winning Alternatives offers new views on winning: having an alternative to all-or-nothing wins might be interesting.

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