by Poon Jon I'm Jon from Malaysia, and Furmation of Rome is my first published game under my own company, nPips Games. Before you stop reading because cats+Rome doesn't mix, give me a chance to justify myself through the one-year journey I am about ...
by W. Eric Martin - German publisher AMIGO has teased its early 2025 releases by releasing cover images and bare bones data. The titles are: -- 6 nimmt! Baron Oxx: AMIGO describes this 2-10 player Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling design as "the ...
by W. Eric Martin Designer Kory Heath took his own life on November 18, 2024, after "enduring years of chronic pain and depression", in the words of John Cooper, who co-designed The Gang with Kory. More from Cooper: "He was a genius, also funny, kind ...
by Greyfax Are board game rules the same as laws? Here's the question: As all game groups do, sometimes we find we are playing a rule wrong. Sometimes we discover it at the end of the game, but sometimes in the middle. We have one player who insists ...
by W. Eric Martin Over the past couple of years, the game industry has been thick with two-player spinoffs of existing games, but Randy Flynn and Flatout Games have taken a different route with their spinoffs of the Spiel des Jahres-winning Cascadia.
by Duncan Molloy Tired of endlessly shuttling the kids from soccer practice to dance recitals to God-knows-what? Inching your three-ton fortress into tiny parking spaces on the school run because you wanted the kids to be protected, and now they won ...
by W. Eric Martin The game industry is like any other in that it has a front-facing aspect of buyers and sellers, with thousands behind the scenes who do largely invisible work that make the front part possible. Amber Cook, who passed away on October ...
by W. Eric Martin My time at BGG.CON 2024 is nearly at an end, and as is true for nearly all aspects of life, I did some stuff, but not nearly as much as I would have liked to. I'm grateful to have seen many members of the BGG team, who I otherwise ...
by W. Eric Martin - Trickadee is the second title from Rob Newton through his Coin Flip Games brand, and this 3-5 player trick-taking game due out in mid-2025 challenges you to collect high-scoring flocks. (Kickstarter link) In each round, you start ...
by Nick Bentley A creator shouldn't try to please everyone, right? Obviously. It's impossible. In fact for most arts, the standard advice is to please only yourself. Don't try to predict others' feelings. People are too complicated. However, there ...
by W. Eric Martin In late October 2024, I covered (most of) the licensed titles coming from KOSMOS in the first half of 2025. Now the German publisher has revealed first details on the original titles it plans to release, and we'll start with ...
