My journey in the hobby board games scene began in 2012. At the time, I was heavily into computer gaming. So much so that I found myself saying no to many of my friends outside of the digital space created in online gaming environments. It...
As an avid board gamer, keeping a solid gaming group around can be pivotal to getting the new, great games to the table. For the most part, many of the bigger, more exciting games are best played with three or four players. Coming up with...
Since I have been involved in the hobby board game industry, lists of games have been thrown in my direction. Some lists cover extremely broad categories while others air on the side of a very specific genre or scenario. They can range from My Top...
Parallels in Learning A note about Learning and Games, and review of Queendomino Recently I was listening to an episode of the Secret Cabal Gaming Podcast that explores how to plan and lead a role-playing game as a Game Moderator. The hosts explained in detail how to design...
Crowd of Fools A Review of Raxxon One of the fun things about games is playing around a table with someone whom you’ve played with before but who is still hesitant or skeptical about the whole board game experience. Let’s call these folks UP’s- undecided players. Or, how...
Two tough birds in a formidable sky A review of Odin’s Ravens Playing games is an exchange between the designer and players. The designer can give to the players through many means- assigning clever artwork to the concept, taking special interest in figurines or tokens, or making...
Oh great, now I’m craving chocolate chip cookies When Conor, the wunderkind and DEO (Dad Executive Officer) of Inside Up Games, nudged me to put some of my board game experience into writing, he said ‘Don’t stress’. Conor is the #EvilCreator behind Summit, a board game where...
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