Escape Team by Fabian Hemmert. I received a free mission pack voucher from the publisher. The Escape Team home page. Elevator pitch: Escape Team is an app-powered escape room puzzle game where you print out all the materials at home. What’s in the box? There’s no box! The game is an iOS or an Android…
…has bought the first compulsory train or becomes insolvent no limits on how many shares are in the bank pool, but generally can’t sell director’s share unless someone else has 20% Buying shares when buying from IPO, money goes to bank if company hasn’t operated yet and to the company, if the company has already…
I must say I’m quite enamored by Industrial Waste. It was a good acquisition, as it is certainly a game for my liking. Thanks Tommy! What’s better, my opinion of the game has improved with every game. Yesterday’s game certainly opened my eyes regarding the loans. I wouldn’t avoid a loan anymore, if I needed…
…the moment I start a design. I suppose that’s an academic habit, Cole explains. – While you don’t want to wholly become subject to a particular conversation or a particular publication, there comes a time when you need to communicate what you’ve done, and part of that “communication” means thinking about the different forms it…
The guys at BoardGameGeek have done a radio show. You can download the mp3 from Aldie’s GeekJournal, it’s about 16 megs and 61 minutes. I wasn’t going to listen to it first, but then Iain said it was ok. I got it on my portable mp3 player and listened to it at work while I…
…prepared my talk about board games, which I’ll be having tomorrow when the game studies group meets for the second time — right after an exam on WWW programming. It should be interesting, and I’m also carrying a load of noteworthy games with me for all the computer gamer geeks to see. Wish me luck!…
…it out (and that doesn’t have some re-reading old clues), Sherlock took … WHAT?! … FOUR bloody moves! Ok, so that’s -39 — times five! So, my final score was -100 against Sherlock’s 100. Well, I guess that goes to show who of us is the master detective and who isn’t… Still, it was rather…
…to hit the center. The questions have also their problems: the range from practically impossible to know (too specific local knowledge or simply areas completely unknown) to simple yes or no guesses. Of course that can be balanced — we immediately toss away impossible questions or give hints to make the really hard questions easier….
…the 50 cards, so it takes a while to go through them all. While you don’t really need the game to have fun with this kind of activity, it definitely helps to come up with good questions. I think this is probably the most interesting game of the bunch. Letter Hold’em is part of the…
I have done the Finnish translation of this game, and got a free copy from the Finnish publisher. The game: Co-Mix by Lorenzo Silva, published by Horrible Games in 2014. Elevator pitch: Story-telling game, where you create your story by laying picture cards on a six- or nine-panel comic page. Stories are then told and…