The latest in the Musings on... series has been posted. Terra, # 11 in the series, was discussed by myself, Jeremy Avery, and Frank Branham. You can read the...
I run a board game afternoon each Sunday at my church, with quite a few people staying and playing games. The "designer" games see a lot of play, and people...
As I've stated in other reviews, I really enjoy the "Bright Idea Games" line from Playroom Entertainment. The games, most of them designed by Reinhard Staupe,...
In the past couple years, I was introduced by some friends to the Cthulhu mythos, which for the uninitiated, is a literary universe begun by HP Lovecraft. The...
The latest interview in my series, Interviews by an Optimist, is up! http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int058.htm This time, I interview Dominic...
Interview # 59 has been posted, of Elena Fyrogeni, an Italian publisher and designer. http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int059.htm Tom Vasel "Real men...
More than anything else in a game, I value fun. If a game is just pure fun to play, then I don't care if it has great mechanics, a solid theme, etc. Fun is...
In episode 10 of The Dice Tower, which you can find here.. http://www.gamefest.com/news/news_detail/2971_0_4_0_C/ Joe and I talk about Origins, our top ten...
A criticism that is often levied against "designer" games is that the theme is merely pasted on and simply serves as a method to promote the game's mechanics....
Interviews by an Optimist # 60 has been posted, with Larry Harris, designer of many games, such as Conquest of the Empire, but known most famously for Axis and...
In Korea, shooting galleries are quite popular. They're at all the amusement parks, and even the smallest of carnivals invariably has some kind of stand where...
For a long time, I've heard just how great For Sale (Uberplay, 2005 - Stefan Dorra) was as a "filler", a game that can be played in a short amount of time....
Episode 11 of the Dice Tower has been posted! In this episode, we answer more questions, talk about our "dinner party" of games, review Downtown and High...
Musings On # 12 has been posted, about Shadows over Camelot. http://www.thedicetower.com/musings/musings12.htm Mike Siggins, Chad Krizan, Shannon Appelcline,...
Sometimes I read the rules to a game and sadly realize that I'm going to have to play it, knowing in advance that my enjoyment will be low. Occasionally,...
Blindluck Studios is a new game company whose games have unique mechanics and innovative ideas. In Caravans of Ahldarahd, these ideas don't mesh together to...
In my younger days and college years, I pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I'd never acquire Conquest of the Empire - at that point one of the...
I stumbled across some folks playing Tutankhamen (Out of the Box Games, 2004 - Reiner Knizia) at Origins and was immediately interested in the winding board...
Interviews by an Optimist # 61 has been posted, with Scott Starkey. http://www.thedicetower.com/interviews/int061.htm Scott is the designer of The Mother Lode...
Fun Factory is a new company based in Singapore that has recently started producing board games. Their first game, Dividends, was a fun romp that could handle...
The Dice Tower, episode 12 has been posted at GameFest for your listening pleasure. http://www.gamefest.com/news/news_detail/3059_0_4_0_C/ In this one, we...
When I received Box of Golf: A Classic Golf Board Game (Box of Golf, Inc., 2003 - No designer credited), I was amazed at how heavy the box was. Few games I...
Episode 13 of The Dice Tower has been posted. In this show, we continue our contest for Santiago or Primordial Soup, review Breakout Normandy and Santiago,...
Leo Colovini has been somewhat hit or miss with me. I really enjoyed his games Cartagena and Carolvs Magnvs, but others such as Bridges over Shangri-La and...
I first saw Santiago (Z-man Games, 2005 - Claudia Heley and Roman Pelek) in GAMES magazine and was vaguely interested - mostly because the cube colors (purple,...
I sighed when I first laid eyes on Alexander the Great (Mayfair and Phalanx Games, 2005 - Ronald Hofstatter and Dietmarr Keusch). A game with a name like that...
Interviews by an Optimist # 62 is up, with Mike Selinker. Mike has developed and/or designed many games, including Axis and Allies revised, Risk: Godstorm,...
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