Flavour Text
Many games include flavour text in them. Whether it’s a short sentence on the bottom of a card or entire page of backstory on a character you’ve picked, flavour text is an often-ignored component....
Designer Spotlight: Corey Konieczka
I always associate Corey Konieczka with Kevin Wilson. They have both designed a significant number of big-box Fantasy Flight games, and frequently collaborate with other designers, as is the Fantasy Flight way. Once again,...
Death of a Publisher
I’ve decided to interrupt our usual Designer Spotlight series to talk about a publisher today. I received some sad news yesterday: Megacon Games are calling it a day. You may be forgiven for not...
Two-Player Games
Recently, my local boardgame café (The Dice Cup) started running a two-player games night. My initial reaction was, “Eh? Why would you want to get a bunch of people together only to play two-player...
Designer Spotlight: Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson is one of those designers whose name always sounded familiar to me, but when pressed, I would have struggled to name any of his games. He’s a Fantasy Flight big box designer...
Companion Apps
Last year, Fantasy Flight released the second edition of a game called Mansions of Madness. It was one of the first games that required a companion app to play. They provided absolutely no alternative...
Miniatures
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...
Rulebooks
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...
