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 […]
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.
How do you distil all of human history into a game? How do you inscribe all of our knowledge and learning upon 105 cards? How do you condense millennia of scientific progress and technological innovation into a 30-minute-card game called Innovation?
With genius, guile, and a game designer called Carl Chudyk.
It is likely you’ve never played a board game about making patchwork quilts. It is also likely you’ve never played the greatest 2-player game every designed.
You’re at a party. It is not lit. It is so unlit you are likely to be eaten by a grue. You and your gamer friend exchange a knowing look: I would much rather be playing games. She pulls out a phone, and pulls up Triple Agent. Hallelujah! Game on. Triple Agent by Tasty Rook, a two-man […]
I’ve always loved board games. As a poor student, I would walk into Games Paradise on Pitt Street in the city just to be surrounded by shiny plastic-wrapped board games with expensive price tags.
Then one day, I discovered a secret.
When I said Werewolf was a “terrible game I’ll never play again”, I meant it. Thankfully, One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a different beast entirely.
