All Entries Tagged With: "board games"
Review: Duck! Duck! Go! Board Game from APE Games
“Duck! Duck! Go!” from APE Games first appeared on my radar at the GAMA Trade Show in 2009, but I did not get a chance to play it. This year, with the release of the sequel “Duck! Duck! Safari!” I contacted APE for review copies of both games and they kindly obliged. Though I have [...]
Review: Crusade and Conquer
Crusade and Conquer is a new chess variant from Canada that I ran across at GTS this year and finally got a chance to take it out for a spin. The board is a standard chess board with a couple of exceptions; castles! Yes, there are little foam castles that stand on either side of [...]
Gen Con 2010 Clean-Up: xPirate from Exim Games and Outbreak: Undead
Gen Con 2010 was a great event, so great it addled my mind and I forgot two interesting games that I thought worth discussing. “Outbreak: Undead“ is a new zombie-survival horror role-playing game. Here are a couple of shots of the cover and the contents. The format of the book is a hand-written journal, so [...]
Cadwallon: City of Thieves from AEG Looks Interesting-Nice Miniatures
The Cadwallon: City of Thieves board game from Alderac Entertainment Group comes out at Gen Con, but they just released a shot of the game’s miniatures. Board game miniatures are often more token than miniature, but these impressed me enough to warrant a post. My interest is now officially piqued. I will add this game [...]
Valley Games–The Trials and Tribulations of Board Game Publishing Part 1
Torben Sherwood of Valley Games, the English-language publishers of board games (Titan, Container, Stronghold, Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage, Republic of Rome, Die Macher) kindly agreed to do some guest-blogging for Livingdice. Torben’s two-part series on the origins of his publishing company and the difficulties in developing a board game from concept to market are must-reads [...]
Review: Days of Steam from Valley Games
“Days of Steam” from Valley Games is the first post-GTS board game review. “Days of Steam” (DoS) differs from the usual “build routes” train game paradigm and instead uses a tile-laying mechanic that allows players control over what routes are in the game. Placing a single city tile containing two goods on the board begins [...]
Lair of the Liche Lord from Fantasy Nations: True Gaming
Last week I wandered into my local game store and noticed a display of new games arrayed on a table. The games were notable for their packaging and production values: plastic bags and photocopied rule books. On impulse, I picked up “Lair of the Liche Lord” from Fantasy Nations. “Liche Lord” is a tabletop war [...]
Photographing Miniatures and Game Books: Solutions from a Bad Photographer
I am a bad photographer. The only reason I ever shoot anything is because I cannot find a better shot of the object in question somewhere on the web. Sadly, for my game reviews and especially the miniatures, the web does not have any images I can use. Instead, I lean on technology to make [...]
Board Game Publishing Economics–The Harsh Reality
Michael Mindes, owner of Tasty Minstrel Games, put up a fascinating post about the brutal economics of publishing board games. Although Michael is hopeful about the future, the numbers speak for themselves. I found the post refreshing in both its honesty and detail. Far too many people I meet in the gaming industry, especially the [...]
