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Helcon III — Sunday

If you haven’t read Helcon III — Saturday yet, that’s the place to start from. Sunday began with a meeting, when the Finnish Diplomacy Association had it’s last meeting. It’s final now: the association will now be known as Finnish Boardgame Society or Suomen lautapeliseura. We’ll forget Diplomacy and start spreading the gospel of better…

November 10, 2004

Event reports

Alhambra, Carcassonne: Hunters & Gatherers, Carolus Magnus, events, Fifth Avenue, Finnish Board Game Society, Helcon, Intrige, Mall World, StreetSoccer, Suomen lautapeliseura, Tikal, Yinsh
Helcon III — Saturday

Helcon III began early in the morning, when we packed up everything in Tommy’s car and headed to the location. We quickly set everything up, unpacked games and arranged the tables and whatnot. First visitors arrived early and started playing games soon and soon more came. First game I played was a four-player Crokinole match.…

November 9, 2004

Event reports

Bang!, Bohnanza, Bruno Faidutti, Crokinole, Die Macher, Don, Einfach Genial, Europa Tour, events, Evergreen, Gamut of Games, Geschenkt, Gipf, Helcon, Niagara, No-game, Oltremare, preview, Project Gipf, Sid Sackson, Yinsh, Zèrtz
Pre-Helcon games

Helcon is history and it’s time to write another lengthy epic on the games played. The event was a wild success, with over 50 visitors during the two days. The place we had was practically full during the Saturday afternoon. There’s definitely new event next year, but we might be forced to look for a…

November 9, 2004

Event reports

Alea, Around the World in 80 Days, Black Vienna, DaVinci Code, deduction, Einfach Genial, Eiszeit, Flowerpower, Games Journal, Geschenkt, Helcon, In 80 Tagen um die Welt, Mammoth Hunters, Michael Rieneck, preview, Reiner Knizia, Spiel des Jahres, Spiele der Spieles, Tigris & Euphrates
Amazing Puerto Rico board

Downloading Mike Doyle’s PRege, La Ciudad might take a while, but it’s well worth it. Mike Doyle was frustrated because he was unable to see the whole picture of a Puerto Rico game. He went on and created some new art for the game. Instead of personal player boards, there’s a large common board, which…

November 7, 2004

More about games

Mike Doyle, nice bits, Puerto Rico
New Movable Type

I’m now running Movable Type 3.121 here. Major changes include new, smarter URLs for entries (old files remain, so links are not entirely broken) and new commenting system. I now support TypeKey, which is a global registration service. If you register with TypeKey, you can use that id to comment in several blogs. In Gameblog,…

November 5, 2004

About the Blog

Gameblog, Movable Type, WordPress
Helcon expectations

Today I’m heading to Helsinki and Helcon. I thought I wouldn’t take a huge load of games with me, but here I go, hauling one large bag and few smaller ones. If things go well, I’ll be able to sell most of those games and I don’t have to take them back. There are only…

November 5, 2004

Event reports

events, Geschenkt, Helcon, Mall World, Media Mogul, Niagara, Oltremare, Roads and Boats, selling games, Victory & Honor
Some statistics

I thought I’d entertain you with some statistics. This has nothing to do with games, but my blog, so feel free to skip this one. Anyway, I took everything I had written to Gameblog and wrote a program to count it. According to my counts, I’ve written about 135 000 words before this entry. That’s…

November 4, 2004

About the Blog, Statistical lunacy

events, Gameblog, Helcon, Lahti games weekend, spreadsheet, statistics
The Games Journal

A new issue of The Games Journal is out. Spot the Component 1.0 is a tough game piece id puzzle. I think I have eight to ten figured out — of 32! Getting more right would take some investigation.

November 2, 2004

Outside world

Games Journal, Pictures, puzzles, Spot the Component
Little Golem news

Iain got me playing Dvonn — I’ve been meaning to, but I have lacked motivation. Now I started and hey, it’s a good game. Right now it ranks second in the Project GIPF games, right after Zèrtz. I’m still to finish a game, so my opinion is still slightly vague. Meanwhile, I’ve figured out I…

November 1, 2004

More about games

abstracts, Amazons, Dvonn, Gipf, Little Golem, play-by-web, StreetSoccer, Twixt, Zèrtz
Game Central Station is back!

Mark Jackson is back with his Game Central Station. It’s nice to have it back, with a new, improved URL and all. Some of the stuff is still missing, the Departures page has no links to any blogs, but hey, it’s just fine. Some will find Color of the Wind, Alan Moon’s White Wind newsletters…

November 1, 2004

Outside world

Alan Moon, Apples to Apples, blogs, Color of the WInd, Departures, Game Central Station, Mark Jackson, White Wind