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The Moral Dilemma of Board Game Mechanics - Forbidden Island

Wed, 12/26/2012 - 22:15 — davidtrounce
Forbidden Island

I have been researching the morality of Board Games recently. I have only just begun the study but I am finding it to be very interesting. I started with the Game, Forbidden island, after William McCarrol of Nerd Bloggers made an insightful comment about the morality of pillaging an island of its historical artefacts.

Six words about a Christmas present for the game industry?

Wed, 12/19/2012 - 11:06 — lewpuls

According to tweetdeck, one of the trending:worldwide topics on twitter not so long ago was 6 word stories. In the past few months I've asked people to say 6 words about game design, programming, wargames, stories in games, casual games, zombie games, chance/randomness in games, innovation and plagiarism in games, game sequels, and role-playing games.

This time the challenge is to say something about: "If I could give any present to the game industry this Christmas".

Pulsipher's Game Designer Survey 2012

Tue, 12/18/2012 - 10:31 — lewpuls

This is a short (10 question) survey for people who call themselves game designers, video or tabletop (which is as good a way to define who game designers are as any other). Survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PJJQHP8

December 2012 Miscellany

Sun, 12/09/2012 - 19:13 — lewpuls

Thoughts about some game-related topics that are not long enough for separate blog posts.

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I said in my book Game Design that I thought video and tabletop games are converging, but sometimes I'm not so sure when I look at games like Farmville on one hand, and worse, the all-rewards-all-the-time games like Diablo III and many others, where anything that interferes with getting direct pleasure is regarded as a "fail".

Project 8-Ball / Arcana Jayne The Card Game

Fri, 12/07/2012 - 22:31 — stevebarkeruk

The trick taking game I designed for a friend based on her sadly defunct webcomic IP has reached her and she is thrilled.

http://vox-apocrypha.com/archives/best-gift-ever/

She posted some nice pics of the Artscow cards as well :)

Lord of the Rings Pewter Game Pawns

Thu, 12/06/2012 - 06:53 — The Game Crafter
Lord of the Rings Pewter Game Pawns - Available at The Game Crafter

While working with our vintage vendors we came across one of them who had a small stash of Lord of the Rings pewter pawns. We’ve added them to our vintage game parts catalog. They are very expensive at $4.00 each, but we thought some of you would want them anyway for the deluxe versions of your games that you make for yourself.

The virtues (and sins) of using dice in game designs

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 20:10 — lewpuls

In the very oldest traditional board and card games, dice are rarely used. (Backgammon and Parcheesi are the most notable exceptions.) Most of those boardgames have perfect information and the only uncertainty comes from the intentions of the other player, except where dice are used. There are always just two players. Think of checkers, go, chess, tic-tac-toe, Nine Men's Morris, mancala, and so forth.

BitArena

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 08:54 — abdantas

Hey Guys,

The BitArena prototype is getting done at The Game Crafter. I'm pretty excited to get a better looking more permanent copy on my hands to try out with friends and family.

We'll be pushing to get all our rules set up, trying it out with some friends and family of the holiday and really perfecting the rules beffore we set it off the gates and on sale. i'll post some pictures of it on here once we get it.

Tahiti has arrived

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 10:31 — Dralius

My personal copies along with about 100 Box tops I need to sign and return to minion games arrived Saturday evening. I’m very happy with it. The box is efficiently small but with a great deal of heft. You know when you pick it up that you’re not buying air. The quality of the materials is top notch. Our distributer is filling orders, the games should be in stores very soon.

Did I say I’m very happy with it!

Taluva Teutonica

Fri, 11/30/2012 - 19:31 — jongetsbored

This idea just came to me, noting my brainstorms to help collect this.

Taluva pieces

Player sheet showing buildings not yet built and workers not yet placed.
Mine -> Mountain
Fishing Village -> Lagoon
Crops or special -> Clearing
Nothing? -> Sand
Mill -> Forest
Obsidian? -> Volcano

Currencies:
Wood
Gold
People?
Obsidian?

Round based turns. Variable turn order somehow, X tiles shown before turn order figured out and each player gets one placement on their turn.

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