Risk/Reward and Interaction
I was pondering two separate games, or ways to play games – Concentration (or Memory), and Winston Draft – and saw a common thread of interest to comment on. In Concentration, each player takes turns...
View ArticleReview: Kingsburg
Kingsburg is one of your classic German resource-management strategy board games. Dylan introduced me to it; I bought it recently while browsing for other stuff at a game store, because I remembered I...
View ArticleReview: Starcraft 2
I’ve talked previously about Starcraft 2, how I felt about receiving it on release day and how I reacted to two issues of choice in the single-player game, but I haven’t really reviewed it properly, so...
View ArticleEarly Game Design
I wanted to do a review of Epic Win today (the task list app that Monty suggested to manage my time using quests, loot and XP) but I haven’t found time to download and try it yet. So maybe tomorrow!...
View ArticleReview: Small World
Small World is a board game that uses a territory-conquering system similar to risk, but has fantasy flavor and special powers for each person’s army. Once all 1,000 pieces are punched and organized,...
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