I am truly blessed with a great group of friends to play games with. If you listen to The Thoughtful Gamer podcast, you’ve heard from pretty much all of them. Frequently after playing games we’ll have an informal debrief of … Continued
I wanted to have a review of it up today, but the book “Characteristics of Games” has been so good so far that I keep savoring it like a particularly delicious bite of steak instead of actually finishing it. This … Continued
Hang around a modern board game hobbyist long enough and you’ll inevitably hear their critique of the behemoth of American board games: Monopoly. Central to that critique will be two arguments: Roll and move is a bad mechanism because it … Continued
With board games becoming more and more popular, I suspect many developers and publishers have spent a lot of time thinking about how to create positive first impressions for their games. In fact, this is one of the areas where … Continued