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Computer games & Mah Jong
You won’t see me writing about computer games often; I don’t play them much and when I play, it’s usually just to kill time. Of course, there’s no better way to kill time than to play Civilization (or Alpha Centauri) — oops, there goes another six hours… During the last few years, I’ve only bought…
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Die Macher link
Bob Rossney has analysed the various elements of Die Macher and compiled a nice table of them. Nice, and shows well that Die Macher isn’t the most simple game there is. Now I should be managing all that to my advantage to succeed!
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Zèrtz
For Finnish users, there’s a new review at my web site: Zèrtz. I’ve played about 50 games of Zèrtz during this summer, both PBeM and with a real set. I love it! It’s quick to play so you can play lots of it. The rules are easy to learn but there’s just right amount of…
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Summer of abstract gaming
If I had to define the theme of this summer, it’s been abstract gaming. I was looking for something to do with my e-mail as I was constantly connected at work. Well, I found PBEM games. I’ve played many games now on Richard’s PBeM Server. The interface is quite nice and the games have been…
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Die Macher — finally
I don’t remember when I first got interested about Die Macher. It’s appreciated a lot in some circles, at least. For example, its ID number in the Boardgamegeek database is 1, it was the first game ever to be entered there. Don’t know if that’s a token of appreciation, I’d like to think it is.…
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A new beginning
Hi! I’ve always (well, at least since I saw a TV documentary about Justin Hall) wanted to have an online diary or something. I even started one, but buried the project almost immediately. Now, I’ve started again, thanks to lots of media attention to blogs. I wanna try too! So, I installed Movable Type and…