Gone Gaming: The Gone Gaming 2006 Board Game Internet Awards
December 13, 2006The Gone Gaming 2006 Board Game Internet Awards have been announced. Nominations close at 30.12.2006, and the awards are announced on 13.1.2007.
Mike Doyle’s Art Play: Modern Art Released
November 29, 2006Mike Doyle’s Brazilian Modern Art is released. It’s the most beautiful board game I’ve ever seen, I believe. So many clever ideas!
The Tao of Gaming: Die Macher … revisited
November 27, 2006In Die Macher … revisited, Brian Bankler offers some interesting variants to the classic political game.
Games Journal: Gipf Review
November 21, 2006Mitchell 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a very inspired piece of board game writing that is still worth reading, even though the release of Pünct has slightly outdated it.
Journal of Boardgame Design: Are Game Designers Auteurs?
November 7, 2006Are Game Designers Auteurs? That’s a good question, and Jonathan Degann answers it in detail.
Gamer’s Mind: Qualities of Great Games
Ekted lists some Qualities of Great Games in his blog.
Gone Gaming: Winning Alternatives
November 1, 2006Yehuda’s article Winning Alternatives offers new views on winning: having an alternative to all-or-nothing wins might be interesting.
Pawnstar: Halloween Horror
October 31, 2006Pawnstar offers a chilling tale of Halloween Horror.
Shilling on BGG: A Practical Guide
October 30, 2006Ahh, the legions of BGGers–current and former–who read this and said, “Man; where was this years ago when I was first starting out?”
The highest Scrabble score ever
October 27, 2006On October 12th, the the highest ever scoring Scrabble game was played - 830 points.
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