by Joe Unfried | Apr 9, 2019 | Articles
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...
by Joe Unfried | Apr 3, 2019 | Articles
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...
by Which Game First | Apr 1, 2019 | Articles
I haven’t done any measuring, but a lot of good boardgames are coming in humungous packages. Struck by the gargantuan boxes of Gloomhaven, Twilight Imperium and other boxed behemoths, I began to wonder whether boardgame boxes were actually increasing in size as much...
by Joe Unfried | Mar 25, 2019 | Articles
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...
by Joe Unfried | Mar 21, 2019 | Articles
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...
by Joe Unfried | Mar 18, 2019 | Articles
In 2011, Armenia instituted mandatory chess instruction in schools, starting at age 6. Armenia is proud of its prowess at chess, and rightly so; it ranks third in the world in chess grandmasters per capita, second only to Iceland and Andorra. Grandmasters are...
