BGG Top 10 Designers
I came across a very interesting article on BoardGameGeek (BGG) the other day: the All-Time Designer Ranking (2018). Tony Chen (who himself is a designer) has come up with a formula that looks at...
Games that Tell Stories
A couple of weeks ago we looked at Ignacy Trzewiczek in our Designer Spotlight. He is the founder of Portal Games, whose tagline is ‘Board games that tell stories’. That’s very much the mantra...
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...
What is BoardGameGeek?
I first started using the BoardGameGeek (BGG) website about 10 years ago. However, I never actually registered an account on BGG until about 5 years ago. In part, this was because I found the...
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...
Theme
Back in the 80s, I spent rather a lot of time playing Elite. It was the first computer game to have 3D graphics (that I can remember). Up until then, it was all platform...
