Thursday, November 22, 2018

Hiatus

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Since the signing of "Magnificent Marvels" in August, I had resumed posting weekly here about our design progress, about first imp...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Notes on combining sequential and simultaneous moves

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As part of a series of discussions on Games of Strategy , I've written here about games with sequential moves - those in which players ...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Top ten games with my wife - 2018 edition

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Four years ago I was inspired to identify the top ten games that my wife and I liked to play together . We've played a lot of games sinc...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Highest-rated out-of-print games - 2018 edition

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Four years ago I identified the top five out-of-print games on boardgamegeek. Since then, a number of games have found new life as reprints...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Notes on simultaneous-move games with continuous strategies

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My recent posts on game theory have focused on games with discrete strategies, which is to say that players are faced with a finite number ...
Monday, October 22, 2018

European board games before Catan

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Game designer Rob Newton asked on Twitter what people would consider "classic literature of the board game world." Fellow design...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Notes on games with mixed strategies

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In an earlier post regarding theory of simultaneous move games , I concluded with an example of a game between two tennis players that d...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Spies vs spies: First impression of Cold Warrior

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I have long felt that the Cold War represents a rich thematic opportunity for board games. Yet I can identify only a handful of games set ...
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