Tag: BOARD GAMES

Roleplaying and board games reviews, podcasts, videos and interviews

Board Games in Nigeria with Bassey Onwuanaku

Boardgames in Nigeria. Interview with Bassey Onwuanaku

I am Paco García and in this episode I talk with Bassey Onwuanaku about her game café in Abuja, Nigeria, and how finding out about her daughter learning through gaming, has led her to create Lindem Edutaiment, an organisation that wants to spread education through gaming all over Nigeria.

Introducing Playing Digital

With tablets being more and more ubiquitious and powerful, and with programming getting better and better, boardgames are a very good and useful alternative to tabletop when we have no friends around, we want to play in the tube or any other time. But are those games any good? Wel… I am going to find…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: The Bespoke Geek

Sometimes people have great ideas and they need to go to Kickstarter to get them realised because money is tight. That’s the whole principle of Kickstarter, I know. But I also know that some people have grown increasingly cynical of some projects that go to Kickstarter for the marketing and not the need. This is…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: Alexander Argyopoulos and 12 Realms: Bedtime Story

Although not many people think about countries like Greece a country with a board game tradition, some companies are keen on setting a stepping stone and bring some excellent games to the table of as many as possible. Mage Company has been doing that since they released Wrong Chemistry a few years ago and then…
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Podcast Episode – The Boardgame Interview Room: Skyway Robbery with Philip duBarry

Skyway Robbery is the product of designer Philip duBarry, the same Philip duBarrry who designed Canalis, Courtier, Kingdom of Solomon… Yeah… he’s pretty good. This time he’s turned to Kickstarter to try and get the funds and produce Skyway Robbery, a steampunk stravaganza in which the players have to put together the biggest heist they…
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