Gameblog

Category: Outside world

  • New game blog

    This weekend I worked on a new blog. It’s about console and computer games — since I’ve started playing video games more, I’ve also felt a need to write about them (natural instinct to me, I suppose). The new blog is called Pelimerkinnät (Game notes) and as you might guess from the title, it’s in…

  • Playing Cards FAQ

    Love And Casino War pointed to a rather marvellous resource: Playing-Cards Index. The page contains lots of interesting trivia knowledge about playing cards. It’s highly recommended for anyone interested in playing cards.

  • BoardGameGeek RSS feeds

    Iain’s blog entry about BoardGameGeek RSS feeds inspired me to subscribe to some of them (new articles, new reviews and new geeklists). They are certainly much better than they used to be.

  • The Games Journal

    Another month, another issue of The Games Journal. This time the more interesting articles are the fourth installment of Jonathan Degann’s Game Theory 101 series and an article about drafting. Game reviews include an interesting take on Alex Randolph’s Buffalo and Ticket to Ride.

  • Geeklist

    Googlism Geeklist is one of the best I’ve seen in ages. It’s just hilarious.

  • Interesting game page

    Iain linked to Jacob Davenport’s article on game design to illustrate a point about petty diplomacy in games. I was planning to link to that article, because I found it interesting, but then happened to take a look at the page above it, Jacob Davenport’s home page. It’s an interesting collection of game-related stuff, definitely…

  • Blog sighting

    Musings, Ramblings, and Things Left Unsaid seems like an interesting blog. It covers boardgames and books, basically, and — it certainly doesn’t hurt — links to me. This I found through Iain’s blog.

  • Auction article

    Shannon Applecline has written an interesting article about auction mechanisms in games. It should be of interest, especially if you’re a game designer interested in using an auction mechanism in your game.

  • Franz Vohwinkel

    My favourite board game artist, Franz Vohwinkel, has a website. It’s a bit too artistically designed for my tastes, but I don’t mind — the art that’s displayed there is absolutely fabulous. (via Brett & Board)

  • The Games Journal

    Finally, after few hours of waiting, new The Games Journal is out (being in an early time zone can be annoying). Except my two excellent articles, it features reviews of Attika and Magna Grecia and some other articles, which I haven’t had time to read yet. Anyway, it’s much thicker issue than the February one,…