Nothing like turning history into a game. If done well, they aren’t just instructional, but also terrific fun. That’s what […]
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Romeo and Juliet in the Council of Verona is a small game from Crash Games that uses the characters in
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I backed VivaJava in Kickstarter because I like the guys who publish it, quite frankly. As you may or may
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Let me make this *very* clear: I don’t like Poker. At all. I find it a pretty pointless game that
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By Michael Chamberlain Ortus, released this year (2013) by FableSmith and designed by Joost Das, is an abstract strategy game
Word on the Street Junior, by Jack Degnan and published by Out of the Box Publishing in 2010, is a family word game played in teams. Using a tug of war style mechanic, the teams will take turns to try to choose the best word to maximise their pull on the letters.
Glastonbury by Gunter Burkhardt and published by Franjos Spieleverlag this year (2013) is a reimplementation of Kupferkessel Co. (2001) that expands on the original game and allows for four players adding some new elements.
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Joost Das, the creator of Ortus, an abstract game for two players that’s been funded in Kickstarer at the time of publishing this podcast.
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By Michael Chamberlain Designed by Kristian Amundsen Østby and published by Queen Games in 2012, Escape: The Curse of the
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By Michael Chamberlain Sigismundus Augustus: Dei gratia rex Poloniae, released in 2012 by Fabryka Gier Historycznych, is the game of
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