Welcome to 2018’s edition of Overthrow-a-Prime-Minister Day, the day when ordinary Australians are reminded to change their smoke alarm batteries and tweet about #auspol helplessly from the sidelines. In case you missed it, there’s been some Turnbull-ence in Australian politics in the past few weeks. There just Dutton seem to be an end to political […]
Not long from now, Donald X. Vaccarino’s Dominion will hit it’s 10th anniversary. It’s sold more than 2.9 million copies worldwide, generated eleven expansions, amassed a stack of awards including the 2009 German Spiel des Jahres, generating a new award category in the process.* In the process, it created an entire genre of board games known as […]
“At long last… it’s over.” We’ve torn up all the cards in the world. The game is finished. We saved the world, although it was a close-run thing. My wife, always environmentally conscious, suggests putting the empty box and the torn-up cardboards in the recycling. But that would be like burning baby photos. This game, […]
I have a new favourite game. It’s colourful, delightful, strategic and fun, and lets me live out my wildest fantasies: collecting beautiful beautiful gems, and marshalling golems to do my bidding.
Century: Golem Edition, designed by Emerson Masuuchi and published by Plan B Games, is a simple, elegant and subtle deck-building, engine-building game.
A lot of games these days have a pretty standard two-pole alignment system: You’re evil, or you’re good. Hero or villain. Paragon or a Renegade. Jedi or Sith. Which is good and all, but once you leave the realms of childhood and politics behind, you realise that the world is more complex than goodies and baddies. People are more complex. You need an alignment system that captures this complexity and lets you roleplay better.
One of the Strongbad’s finest creations — because it was post-modern enough to have shows within shows within the email reply on the show — was Trogdor, the S-shaped dragon drawn with burly arms and consummate Vs.
Fifteen years later, Trodgor makes an appearance in the flesh in the just-released Kickstarter campaign.
My name is Haoran and I am a board game addict.
You probably already knew that.
But I’m just as addicted to something else: to the seductive appeal of the Kickstarter board game.
When does a game cease to be a game? What exactly is a game anyway? The Mind, designed by Wolfgang Warsch, lives very much on the edge of the definition. By it’s own admission, it can’t decide what it wants to be. According to the back of the box, “The Mind is more than just […]
Auction games make you question everything. Auctions make for great games.
High Society is one of the greatest auction game ever made.
My wife and I have been saving the world for 2 months, 1 week and 5 days. We should be watching The Good Place. Instead we’re playing Pandemic Legacy again, trying to stop the world from being torn asunder. Because the pull from Pandemic Legacy is better than the best show on Netflix. In our alternate timeline, it is September. […]
