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FinDipCon V: Friday
I’m back from FinDipCon! It was a splendid weekend of games, even though I’m getting a bit tired of con environment. I guess I just appreciate good food and good sleep too much… Eating too little and randomly and not sleeping well (I slept a grand total of about 12 hours of mediocre sleep during…
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New games!
My collection grew by two games today, when I picked up Mare Nostrum and Acquire from the post office. Both were donated by Puolenkuun pelit as a payment for using my board game articles at their web site. Thanks to them! Mare Nostrum looks quite cool, I just haven’t been able to try it out…
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Leaving to FinDipCon
I’m off to FinDipCon this afternoon. I’ll try to write something as soon as I can next week. I’ll also be taking my camera with me, so pictures can be expected. What I’m looking for? Games of Wildlife, Taj Mahal, Die Macher, Svea Rike… We’ll see, it should be fun no matter what I end…
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Go
I played a game of Go on KGS. It was a very interesting game, which I — to my surprise — won. I even submitted to the Go Teaching Ladder to be reviewed. It’ll be interesting. So, now I’m 25k? in KGS. I still would love to get rid of the question mark… The sgf…
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Wildlife, Union Pacific pictures
New pictures available: Union Pacific and Wildlife. Enjoy!
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FinDipCon
A reminder for those in Finland next weekend: it’s FinDipCon time! This year the event is held in Helsinki and features the fifth Finnish Diplomacy championship, a Blood Bowl tournament and other minor tournaments — I’m going to participate in the Web of Power tournament. And of course, lots of other games will be played…
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Puolenkuun pelit
Finnish gamers might want to check out the Lahti-based game store Puolenkuun pelit. Their website has nice, bright colours and perhaps a bit annoying design, but they do have some good board games in stock (however, I don’t know about their level of service; I’d guess it’s decent, at least they seem to have some…
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Academic game studies
I participated in an interesting meeting last Tuesday. It was the first meeting of a informal study group of game studies, organised by few friendly staff members of the university’s Hypermedia Laboratory. The group will meet few times this Spring and then continue next Autumn, perhaps in a more formal fashion, too. The first meeting…
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Board game club: Sunda to Sahul, Löwenherz, Union Pacific
We had another pleasant meeting of the Board game club last Sunday. A typical crowd of about 15-20 people visited during the several hours of gaming. At the best we had three games played simultaneously. As expected, I played Sunda to Sahul — five games, actually. Four of those games were played in a row…
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Board game club today
Board game club meeting is today. I’m looking forward to play Union Pacific, Princes of Florence and Sunda to Sahul. We’ll see… Session report will appear next week.