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How Board Games Communicate

This article is sort of a continuation of this article from last week, inspired by discussions on twitter mostly located here and here. I made

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Criticism is Conversation

A little over a decade ago on a night like tonight I’m probably outside, briskly walking through the cool Pennsylvania evening, talking on the phone

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On Deluxification

After seeing the announcement for a new, super-deluxe version of Castles of Burgundy, I was prepared to sit down and write a screed. Sure, the

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My Case Against Review Metrics

I don’t understand the thought process that leads to using established metrics in game reviews. That sounds pompous but I’m being earnest. I’m open to

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Stop Writing Flat Reviews

I think a lot about how to review board games. It’s what I do. I’m a bit obsessive. This particular topic has been on my

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The New Year

I slept through the changing of the year, and it might as well have gone that way, what with the general consensus that 2020 was

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Kickstarter Curmudgeon: August

We’re in the dog days of August, and I guess that seasonal malaise affects board game marketing, because there were a surprising absence of interesting

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Narrative

The house always had a funerial sense about it–the smell of camellias mixed with stale cigarette smoke when I was young; the sense of void

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Satisficing A Portmanteau

If you’ve taken an economics 101 class you probably know the idea–the ‘homo economicus’ rational being that pursues their own self interest and makes economic

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Chess With Dad

I don’t remember how old I was–maybe 11 or 12, but one day my dad decided that I needed to learn how to play chess.

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