Gameblog

Category: Less about games

  • Article submission!

    Finally, after what must’ve been years of pondering, I finally managed to write an article and submit it for The Games Journal. It’s basically an originally Finnish article from my website, but it also appeared here. I’m excited to see if my article appears in the journal. To make this a bit more game-related, I…

  • Puerto Rico opponents at BSW

    Remember how I was lamenting how I never placed any better than second when playing Puerto Rico in Brettspielwelt? Now I know why. I just checked, and for example, this guy shlimazl, who won me, has played over 500 games of Puerto Rico at the BSW and has won over 50% of them. Nice…

  • Top 10 list 11/2002

    Die Macher (1) Web of Power (2) Die Händler (-) Princes of Florence (4) Through the Desert (-) Villa Paletti (-) Tigris & Euphrates (7) Puerto Rico (3) Africa (5) Go (8)

  • Back from HelCon

    I wrote a more detailed entry about coming back from HelCon, but managed to destroy it with accidental backspacing… Oops. Well, anyway, I’m back, had a great time, played many good games, took almost 100 photos and so on. A detailed session report (including Battle Cry, Die Macher, Die Händler, Stephenson’s Rocket and Villa Paletti…

  • HelCon is getting close

    This is probably my last entry here before HelCon. I’ll try to get something posted here as soon as possible after the event, and get some pictures available too. I hope to see as many of you as possible! You’ll find me in the Die Macher table on Saturday afternoon, after that, who knows… Try…

  • German Boardgame Geek Test

    I made the German Boardgame Geek Test today. My score was 35.46%, which means I’m not hopelessly geek yet. I obviously have to improve my score. Also, I have a new toy, a digital camera. So, expect game pictures sooner or later! I’ve set up a photo gallery script at my web site, so you’ll…

  • The Sims — addiction is getting worse

    Our Sims addiction is getting worse. That game is EVIL. It’s even worse than Civilization — at least Civilization had turns, so you could say oh, I’ll play just one more turn and then after n turns (of course you couldn’t stop right after the one, no way) you could stop. But The Sims just…

  • The Sims

    We, that’s me and my girlfriend Johanna, acted on impulse and bought The Sims after reading a good review of the The Sims Deluxe Edition from the newspaper. I know I’ve always been interested in simulation games, I’ve played various Sim Cities, Sim Ant, Sim Life, Transport Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon, Theme Park… I can see…

  • General chit-chat

    Updates are getting a bit scarce, I see. Well, there hasn’t been much to document, really. I tried again to play Tichu today, but I couldn’t get a game. I’ve been working on a picture gallery script and when that’s done, I’ll put all my game pictures there (most can be seen now in various…

  • Top 10 list 10/2002

    Die Macher (-) Web of Power (1) Puerto Rico (4) Princes of Florence (2) Africa (-) Mahjong (3) Tigris & Euphrates (5) Go (7) El Grande (6) Zértz (8)