Last weekend I took the plunge and bought the Dark Souls boardgame. In case you’re not familiar with it, it’s based on a very popular (and very hard) series of computer games. The in-joke...
I buy or Kickstart quite a lot of games. Inevitably this means that I end up being the one who has to read the rules and explain how to play these new games to...
If you’re self-employed and provide digital services or you run your own business and use digital services (and virtually all businesses will), you really ought to be aware of Upwork. By digital services, I...
I’ve spoken about replayability before, but I want to come at it from a slightly different angle today. This has been largely prompted by the arrival of Too Many Bones, which I backed on...
When I was young, I was very competitive. Having an equally competitive brother didn’t help. Whether it was sports, academic achievement or games, I would fight tooth-and-nail to win. My sister despaired. I liked...
Interaction with other players is the reason I play boardgames. However, interaction comes in many varieties – some much better than others! Have you ever played a game where tensions rise, people fall out...
Last week we played Flamme Rouge, a Tour-de-France themed racing game where each player takes two cyclists (a ‘sprinteur’ and a ‘rouleur’) and races around the track by playing cards. Needless to say, we...
Last night at the Dice Cup, I was chatting to some people playing Concept. In Concept players take it in turns to try to communicate a concept (a word or a phrase) to everyone...
At the turn of the millennium, when Lord of the Rings was all the rage (The Fellowship of the Ring film was released in 2001), Reiner Knizia designed a game called… wait for it…...
Boardgames can involve a wide variety of mechanics, but the vast majority of them involve making choices of some kind. There are some notable exceptions: deduction, exploration, dexterity, roll and move, for example. But...
