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Wayfarers of the South Tigris (Digital Eyes)
Beyond the bustling streets of Baghdad lie ancient landscapes, winding waterways, and a night sky filled with shining stars. A cartographer prepares …
1 day, 2 hours ago
Teaching Matters - designing games for the first play (Topic Discussion)
A board game designer can spend years refining a game. They know the game inside out and understand every rule intimately. Yet, when you open a game …
5 days, 2 hours ago
Fourth Wing: Rise of the Wingleader (Saturday Review)
At Basgiath War College, ambition is as dangerous as the skies. You face trials where strength alone will not secure your place among the dragon ride…
1 week, 1 day ago
Costly Complexity - the limits of complexity in board games (Topic Discussion)
There comes a time when you look at the rules for a new board game, when it suddenly stops feeling exciting and starts feeling intimidating. The rule…
1 week, 5 days ago
Wingspan Pocket (Saturday Review)
The early morning air is filled with birdsong. Colourful feathers catch the first rays of sunlight, while movement in the undergrowth reveals birds s…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Pristine Neoprene - the pros and cons of neoprene (Topic Discussion)
A board game can feel very different depending on what surface it is played on. Cards slide differently across different surfaces, dice make differen…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Reforest (Saturday Review)
The mountain was bare in places, green in others, but it was slowly filling with life. Small plants pushed through the soil, adventurously spreading …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Reality Realisation - how board games represent reality (Topic Discussion)
Board games that represent real historical events face a problem that fiction can largely avoid. The designer can't start with a blank page. Players …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Russian Railroads (Digital Eyes)
The rails started in Moscow, carrying workers and materials towards St Petersburg on one line and to Kiev on the other. A third railway was the most …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Political Correction - why we forgive problematic games (Topic Discussion)
As we all know, there are a good number of board games that haven't aged well, if I may put it like that. In the past, games happily made colonialism…
1 month ago