by W. Eric Martin - In April 2024, CRC Press published Michael James Heron's Tabletop Game Accessibility: Meeple Centred Design. Here's an overview of the book from the publisher: This foundational resource on the topic of tabletop game accessibility ...
by Asger Sams Granerud Daniel and I sat down with Days of Wonder to discuss expansions before Heat: Pedal to the Metal was even released -- not because we knew that game would be the runaway hit of 2023, simply because we hoped it would have a ...
by W. Eric Martin - Gachijo: Four Ninja and the Castle of Treasures is the fourth title from Japanese publisher Banana Moon Studio Sapporo, with this being a 2-4 player game from designer Martin Nedergaard Andersen. (KS link) In the game, you are a ...
by W. Eric Martin - Italian publisher Horrible Guild is following its 2021 Railroad Ink Challenge: Collector's Edition not by releasing more for the roll-and-write Railroad Ink game series, but by presenting a new connection challenge: Railroad Tiles ...
by W. Eric Martin - Power Vacuum from Kaleb Wentzel-Fisher and Keen Bean Studio presents players as anthropomorphic appliances competing for the role of Supreme Appliance following the death of the land's leader, who is, yes, a vacuum. Sucks to be ...
by Filip Glowacz I am an innovation digger and tend to seek new interesting mechanisms in game designs, even in those not of my own making. I always look for things that allow players to review the theme by reading the description in the rulebook and ...
by W. Eric Martin - On April 24, 2024, CMON Limited announced a deal with Japon Brand General Incorporated Association to acquire Japon Brand. Japon Brand has been a regular presence at the SPIEL game convention in Essen, Germany since 2006,
by W. Eric Martin What's black and white and read played all over? Othello -- and potentially games about pandas, especially given all these new panda-based games hitting the market in 2024: - Let's kick off with a new game from the greatest designer ...
by David J. Mortimer War of the 3 Sanchos 1065-67 (Wot3S) was my first game to be conceived, developed, and signed during the UK pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Games normally start whirring in my brain when a new mechanism or two I've been ...
by W. Eric Martin What are putting on the table today? Food or games? Well, how about combining the two to get a taste of both? - Sausage Sizzle! is a new edition of Inka and Markus Brand's 2012 dice game Würfel Wurst that publisher 25th Century ...