…with it. Adding games to the system on the phone has been very clunky, for example. This year I did a course on modern full stack development (it’s a free MOOC from Helsinki University and highly recommended) and armed with my new skills, I cooked up a modern version of the stats app, with a…
…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!…
…cases is the nature of the map. It’s not a single slice of time and space, but instead shows multiple snapshots of the people acting in the city. You can see the criminal perform the deed, then you can trace his or her steps back and forth in time – where did they come from,…
…of things to marvel at, lots of interesting stands. Of course, during the day I shopped lots of games. I think I got most of my shopping list done, leaving me stressless on the days to come. First purchases were Frisch Luft and Heckmeck at the Zoch stand, then I got Fettnapf from a random…
The game: On Tour by Chad DeShon. The game was published by BoardGameTables.com in 2019 after a successful Kickstarter campaign. I received a review copy of the game from BoardGameTables.com. Elevator pitch: A lavishly produced roll and write game where you plan a tour of United States for your band. What’s in the box? A…
I’ve been offered 100 euros for my copy of Hammer of the Scots. Reason is, of course, the decision made by Columbia Games: “To improve product output and customer service, all Columbia Games products will henceforth be sold ONLY by mail order, telephone, or via www.columbiagames.com.” Which is of course nice, except when you live…
Phil Schwarzmann from Finland for Thought, who you also might know from Spielfrieks or BoardGameGeek, hosts a weekly live podcast called Radio Free Finland. Every week he interviews some guests about a topic or other, and this week I was on the show. We talked about board games, Finnish blogosphere and my experiences in Who…
…doing websites. Especially if they support multiple authors and make it easier for a community to manage its website. Our new Boardgame Society website is a huge improvement over the old. On the new one, we can assign authors for each page so they can change things they are responsible for. On the old one,…
…played a quick round of Forest Shuffle, he joined us, and we could start the games. Schadenfreude. I listened to the Space-Biff Space-Cast episode with Cole Wehrle earlier in the morning. They discussed Arcs, but Wehrle also mentioned he loves Shark. That was interesting. They also love Schadenfreude and discussed it in a way that…