Previews for several games that will be at this year’s Essen, Victory Point Games is having a sale this weekend, and Looney Labs has announced Nature Fluxx.
This is a month for fun thematic mechanics such as spiders joining cults and Krakens patrolling the oceans. Also, this month brings us the campaign for Tabletopia, a digital platform for playing and publishing board games.
A new virtual system for tabletop games has been announced, Tasty Minstrel has announced that they have three new games about to be released, and Game Salute has launched a new monthly newsletter.
Hasbro is announcing a contest for a new party game, Geek and Sundry has taken a look at some of the rarest board games, and Clever Move explains the history behind ‘roll them bones’.
Mayfair has released a new Star Trek-themed board game, Meeple Pillows hit Kickstarter, and a preview of the mobile adaptation of Tiny Epic Kingdoms has been released.
There are a wide range of genres this month on Kickstarter, with casual games featuring press-your-luck mechanics, tile laying, bluffing, bidding, and more.
I consider myself an “accidental inventor.” I’ve been a tinkerer all my life, and lately I had been creating family games, but I never considered myself an inventor. Not until those unforgettable three months in early 2014 when I won BigLeap’s “Games that Make Us Smarter” challenge, and went on to sign a license agreement for a game with FoxMind.
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