Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Legacy: Constructive, or destructive?

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I recently read Lewis Pulsipher's reaction to the rules of Risk: Legacy .  By way of background, Risk: Legacy (designers Rob Daviau a...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Gameplay vs. simulation

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A favorite debate among my friends and me is the question of realism vs . playability.  Last spring I touched on this topic briefly in a p...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Washington Post reports on Scurvy Dogs' quest for venture capital

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How seldom do we read about boardgames in major media, and yet in Monday's Washington Post , Monica Hesse 's article " Pirate...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Tinsman on game design

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On Lewis Pulsipher's recommendation , I read Brian Tinsman 's The Game Inventor's Guidebook ( Morgan James Publishing , New Yor...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Revisit: Incan Gold and game theory

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[I've been on business travel this week, so in the absence of original material, I'm reposting an article from last spring when I wa...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Theme matters? Maybe for getting me to open the box

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Last year, when Worthington Games first showed me the box art for Trains Planes and Automobiles , I wrote a post on the importance of a ga...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

More Farmers: Farmers on the Moor

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One of my acquisitions at WBC (has it been almost two weeks ago now?) was Farmers of the Moor , an expansion to my old favorite farming ga...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

A vision of "Gold on Mars"

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Hohmann Transfer Orbit    For some time now, I've been giving a lot of "thought exercise" to my "Gold on Mars" co...
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