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Designed Styles - pigeonholing board game designers (Topic Discussion)
Based on a suggestion from the wonderful Bez from Stuff by Bez, I want to look at how designers can sometimes be known for specific styles of board g…
3 years, 1 month ago
Applejack (Saturday Review)
To create the best apple brandy, you have to freeze fermented cider and remove the ice. It's quite simple and very effective in increasing the alcoho…
3 years, 1 month ago
Conventional Tips - advice for attending board game events (Topic Discussion)
I have attended quite a few different board game events in my time. I've been visiting conventions in Germany and the United Kingdom as a paying visi…
3 years, 1 month ago
Defrag (Saturday Review)
The system was slowing down. It was becoming noticeable. Booting up, opening applications and opening files was taking a lot longer. Even the memory …
3 years, 1 month ago
Board Game Feelings - what board games mean to me (Topic Discussion)
Inspired by an essay that Bez from Stuff by Bez published a few days ago on Board Game Geek, I thought I might also write about what board games mean…
3 years, 1 month ago
Viking See-Saw (Saturday Review)
We were going to leave our Scandinavian homelands to search for fortunes in new shores far beyond the horizon. However, before we could set off, we h…
3 years, 1 month ago
Reviews, Bad Actors and Consequentialism - reviewing games from controversial publishers (Topic Discussion)
I reckon most of us have heard about toxic behaviour in our hobby. Some of us will have experienced it directly. Many of us can probably name at leas…
3 years, 1 month ago
Akropolis (Saturday Review)
It was the 5th century BCE and we, the Athenians, had been victorious over the Persians. The Delian League was now under our military control and the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Speed Boost - overlapping turns in board games (Topic Discussion)
Now don't get me wrong. I don't mind long games. I happily play the same game for two to three hours, as long as it keeps me captivated. Even when a …
3 years, 2 months ago
My Shelfie (Saturday Review)
The living room floor was a mess, sort of anyway. Everything was neatly arranged in a grid pattern, but there was no order to it whatsoever. Books we…
3 years, 2 months ago