When I checked in at the lobby of the Manhattan address I’d been given, the doorman greeted me: “Oh, you must be here to play Othello.” I was looking for Vlad Petric, director of the Silvia Petric Memorial – U.S. National Othello Championship. Foxy met me at the...
THIS WAR OF MINE: The Board Game, designed by Michal Oracz and Jakub Wisniewski, brought in over $600,000 British pounds in its Kickstarter project of May 2016 (over $700K American). In 2017, the game was released by Awaken Realms (and many other publishers). “Not...
5) VOICE OF THE MUMMY (1971)Published by Milton Bradley. (No designer credit.) This game has many merits. The components look great, and so does the board, with specific places to put the eerie green gems, and little stairs etched into the board to use when the mummy...
Maybe the game so many love to hate is really not so bad I recall enjoying Monopoly as a child, but I haven’t wanted to actually play it in forever. The “high summer” of my discontent (in junior high), was my suspicion that the game was all about blind luck. But...
Game designer Brandon Rollins (of http://Brandonthegamedev.com) put it the best way I’ve heard so far: board-game accessibility “is a very complex issue that’s hard to talk about succinctly.” Earlier this year, I came across his post that introduced me to the work of...
