Thursday, September 10, 2015

A Comfy Chair


Back when I was a gamer who had nothing to do with designing and publishing of board games, the last month before Essen would always be a bit of a sweet torture. I’d look at all the new and shiny boxes that I would still have to wait weeks to get my hands on. Now, things are obviously a bit different.

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Thursday, August 27, 2015

A Boardgaming Hobbit

Multiplayer solitaire. Two words that more often than not are used these days to condemn a game, as if automatically making it somehow worse than any a design that will have players at each other’s throats in a matter of minutes – or at least make players fight tooth and nail for scarce resources or territories.

Multiplayer solitaire. Two words that more often than not are used these days to condemn a game, as if automatically making it somehow worse than any a design that will have players at each other’s throats in a matter of minutes – or at least make players fight tooth and nail for scarce resources or territories.

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Thursday, August 20, 2015


The concept of player elimination is a thing of the past. Unless we’re talking about games that are short, random and light – or about “classics” like Monopoly – straight up elimination is gone from most European and American style games these games. Or is it gone in name only?

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Thursday, August 13, 2015


We started talking about Simurgh and its beginnings a few weeks ago and it is now the right time to tell the rest of its story. In 2013, with a cool name, dragons and a designer on the rise, Simurgh seemed ready to "go to Essen" and have its first encounter with the general public. But before we present a game to such a demanding audience, we usually take the game through a stress test - those of you working in the banking system should know exactly what this means.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015


So, you’ve been gaming for some time now, long enough to know that it is a hobby worth exploring. You’ve bought your first few games, you’re slowly becoming the board gaming go to gal or guy of your group, and you are thinking about creating a slightly bigger and more wholesome collection of games. Well, you’ve come to the right place.

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