My game website is a journalist magnet. During the last month or so, I’ve been interviewed twice for a magazine (Kotiliesi and ET-lehti — first is probably a bit like Ladies Home Journal and ET is not about extraterrestrials; it’s targeted mostly for older (say 50+) women) and yesterday I was contacted by someone from…
Finnish Boardgame Society website is up and running. Right now it’s a bit light on information — it has all the basics (how to join, what are the immense benefits of joining) but nothing fancy, like information in English. It does have a message board, where we’ll hopefully have lots of interesting board game -related…
…the connection game genre, Connection Games provides a survey of known connection games while exploring common themes and strategies. This book aims to impose some structure on this increasingly large family of games, and to define exactly what constitutes a connection game. Key games are examined in detail and complete rules for over 200 connection…
Brian Bankler has a new blog called The Tao of Gaming. The title is familiar to many, as that’s also the name of his old website. He has an RSS feed, which unfortunately doesn’t have full entries. His latest entry, Truly, you have a dizzying intellect is a good read….
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…
A long PBEM game of Britannia is finally over. The first Roman assault was launched 29.11.2001 and today, I finally published the last results on the game website. Sure, it was insane. We had too long delays while we were playing; I participated in the 2001 World E-mail Championship and those games had GMs to…
I got e-mail from a radio journalist, who wants to interview me about board games. She had found my website and is quite interested about board games and why people don’t play them anymore. So, another opportunity for me to preach the gospel. It’s not the first time (second, to be accurate) I find myself…
…the game are not balanced enough. We discussed a bit and agreed upon some changes and now were are testing them. As one of the players wasn’t interested to play but was able to GM, we changed roles. I’m playing Saruman and the game is called Olorin. Website includes the rule changes, maps and results….
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)…
…but if it does, this just might be a nice little stock market game. My group likes these kinds of games, so expectations are high. It’s also pleasantly cheap: just $30 for free delivery in Europe and $40 for free world-wide delivery. US games at Kickstarter tend to have world-wide shipping costs starting from $30……