Last week we played Container and Fresh Fish. Container is one of those games that divide opinions, but we’ve got some fans of the game. I like it, the free-wheeling process of manufacturing, buying, selling and shipping just works. I like the way the economy depends on the players: if players waste money, the economy…
…map is that it’s small. It’s half the size of common boards, and quite constrained in other ways too: for example, there are no purple cities on the board. You can urbanize one, but that’s it. There are also lots of mountains, which make cheap routes rare (and rivers spoil the rest of them). Rules…
I got a review copy of Spass – Score Cards with Lots of Cowbell. Despite the odd name, it’s actually a fairly basic tool, a score-keeping app for iOS. Now that’s an useful app. I’ve been using Basic Score Keeper – Free, which is pretty good, but I have to admit Spass looks better and,…
You can find ilmaisia porno kuvia (free porn pictures, that is) that way. Or not, actually it’s just an experiment among the Finnish weblogs — how well will that blog rank for “ilmaisia porno kuvia” on Google after a month. To keep this even marginally game-related: I played Mare Nostrum today. I’ll explain it all…
Gameblog turns five this month. Five years! That’s almost ancient when it comes to web sites. To celebrate the blog’s advanced age, I decided to give it a bit of a makeover — after all, it has looked pretty much the same for the whole five years. Hope you like it, I think it looks…
Because I’m trying to spend my time doing something else than studying, I got this idea of weekly game afternoon. I chose afternoon, because Johanna is lucky and has a job and thus isn’t home and I can then be back home when she is. The first of these Wednesday meetings was today and it…
…end, we had five, which called for Briscola Bastardo. A 40-card pack is distributed to the players, who bid to become a declarer. Declarer promises to score points (out of 120 possible, it’s an ace-ten game), gets to name trumps and calls for a partner. What makes the game completely whacky is the freedom of…
…is probably mostly a family game or a filler for gamers. The game isn’t particularly deep. Length: This is a quick game, 30 minutes or so, even with four players. What’s to like: Cute kittens; Quick, compact gameplay; Compact box; Familiar, well-tested game mechanisms. What’s not to like: Slightly confusing rules; Narrow decision tree. My…
…the points is marked and called a Pünct — that’s the centerpoint. In addition to placing pieces on the board, they can be moved and rotated. They rotate around the Pünct and move in straight lines. Piece can land anywhere, where it’s Pünct is on free space or on one’s own piece. You can pile…
…game. It’s also fun to play: coming up with strange mutants is fun, the creatures can get really strange and coming up with weird and capable combos is entertaining. I haven’t played the new Evolution, which is the obvious comparison. I have played the original Russian edition, Evolution: The Origin of Species, and I enjoyed…