by Ron Sierra I used to hate ladder climbers, that is, card games that have players essentially outbidding each other with increasingly stronger sets of cards. It's a genre that never worked for me and one that I was (and still am) frankly bad at:
by W. Eric Martin - At GAMA Expo 2025, Douglas Beyers described For All Mankind, which he co-designed Julia Drachman and they released in early 2025 through their Bad Cat Media brand, as "CATAN in space with nukes". The slightly longer description on ...
by Adrian Yu Hey! I'm Adrian Yu, co-founder of the independent game company Blabel and co-designer of Blabbi: A Game of Made-Up Words, which my younger sister Olive Yu and I created as our pandemic project. As a multidisciplinary artist, film ...
by W. Eric Martin - In February 2025, Natasha Dangoor of The Wall Street Journal profiled Nigel Richards, a Scrabble world champion in English, French, and Spanish ...
by T. Brown Intro In the summer of 2007, I was living in Rome on a study abroad program, taking history classes, and spending my free time getting lost among ancient ruins, historic basilicas, and labyrinthine streets. I came to Rome with the notion ...
by W. Eric Martin I'm still mentally walking the exhibit hall of GAMA Expo 2025 and reliving my past life. Join me for a re-telling of what I experienced. - Flow is an adaptation of the movie of the same name from writer/director Gints Zilbalodis.
by Victor Saumont Hello! My name is Victor Saumont, and Popcorn is my second published game. Since I have always enjoyed reading designer diaries, I thought it was my turn to share the creation story of my game, which premiered at the Cannes Festival ...
by W. Eric Martin - At Gen Con 2024, Ghost Galaxy had a banner for a new edition of Reiner Knizia's Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, along with an accompanying crowdfunding preview on Gamefound. The only additional info that I can add to the ...
by Greyfax I have questions that will be answered soon, but I wanted to follow up on my last column. The original question mentioned folks who were leaving existing games to play something else, and I said players need to commit to playing a game,
by Fanny Pastor-Berlie Hi there, I'm Fanny Pastor-Berlie (a.k.a. Llythium), illustrator of Agent Avenue, a game by Christian and Laura Kudahl that was published in 2024 by Nerdlab Games and coming from IELLO in 2025 in France! When Dominik Lorenz, a ...