UK Games Expo 2015 – A Game Changer
By Paco Garcia Jaen This is my fourth year attending the biggest tabletop games convention in the UK. This is […]
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Video Seminar – Game Design at UK Games Expo
Game design is something a lot of us aspire to do. Well, me not so much. Only a bit. Anyway.
Video Seminar – Board Game Production at UK Games Expo
What does it take to actually publish a board game? Board Games production is something many, many people have wanted
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Kickstarting your game UK Games Expo seminar video
Have you ever thought about funding your game in Kickstarter? Me neither, but quite a few people have and we
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UK Games Expo Seminar: How to get into Roleplaying Games
I believe one of the problems of the RPG hobby in general is that we don’t talk about it to people who don’t know about it often enough.
So we decided to do something about it at the UK Games Expo and organised a seminar with a bunch of people worth listening to and we go from a brief history of RPGs to some selection of games that would suit different types of gamer, ages and genres.
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UK Games Expo Seminar: Write your own Roleplaying Game
Pretty much any and every roleplaying gamer has, at some point, wanted or thought about write an RPG. And most
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Andrew Hackard, from Steve Jackson Games, at the UK Games Expo
Steve Jackson is one of the most famous names in gaming. Two extremely influential game designers and entrepreneurs share the name though they live on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Therefore having someone at the UK Games Expo who could give us a glimpse into what it is like to run the company that brought us Munchkin, GURPS and many others was a real treat.
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UK Games Expo 2013. An experience!
And then the UK Games Expo arrived. WOW!
For starters the venue this year was changed. We were located at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, which is pretty much adjacent to Birmingham NEC and the Airport. Easy to get to by train and plane. The hotel is pretty huge and it was able to accommodate the more than 7000 people the Expo saw last year. And the extra 3000 that have attended this year. It was pretty amazing!
Pocket Hive at the UK Games Expo
With an iPhone app so you can play on the move with a rather clever AI, it offers a great deal of strategy and it is rather fun, and Pocket Hive means you can take it in your pocket (literally!) any time if you don’t have an iPhone.
Gung Ho Games at the UK Games Expo
Michael Fox talked to the guys of Gung Ho Games about their game Pirates of Nassau. I can’t say much