My wife is at a writers' conference in North Carolina this weekend, which means it's just us guys in my house - my 19- and 14-year-old sons and me. I'm thinking Friday night is Star Wars X-wing, with the 19-year-old as Boba Fett in the Slave I against the 14-year-old and me flying X-wing and Z-95s against him. Two against one, but we're not afraid. [Update: We did indeed play X-wing, although I flew a Y-wing rather than Z-95s. There was no escape for Boba Fett this time, as a proton torpedo from my pursuing Y-wing delivered the fatal blow, even as he deployed a mine in my path.]
Ridere, ludere, hoc est vivere.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Friday, September 25, 2015
Kickstarters that should have funded
The proliferation of boardgames on Kickstarter is no secret. In preparing the Dice Tower News Kickstarter report, week in and week out, I find countless boardgames and card games that don't fund. Many fail to fund for understandable reasons - many never coming close - but from time to time a campaign that seems to have everything going for it somehow falls short of the mark, goes unfunded, and has to return to the drawing board. I thought it would be interesting to reflect on a few of those "projects that should have funded" as cautionary tales that remind us that nothing on Kickstarter is a sure thing - and perhaps to begin to understand why.
Friday, August 21, 2015
Fourth annual-ish "What to pack for a vacation"
Each summer I'm in charge of deciding which boardgames to take on family summer vacation. The last time I looked at this question
was August last year. This year we are going on our first cruise, so packing space is a premium (and perhaps table space as well). My first thought for games that are easy to pack are card games, and then I brainstormed a few other ideas. I shopped the list around my family and dropped the ones they weren't interested in. We settled on the following:
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