Hocus in its final form may be seen now as ‘wizard poker’, and in many ways that’s a fair assessment of what’s going on. It’s the sort of thing wizards would sit down for if they wanted an evening of...
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The world of stock trading is a little more complex than simply buy low and sell high – though that is a large part of it. In Stockpile, the goal is to use the totally-not-illegal act of insider trading to...
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The best merchants are those who understand the desires and demands of their customers long before those customers even ask. It turns, out the illegal arms trade works with a similar model. In Battle Merchants, players have to carefully manage...
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Before Battle Merchants joined the Minion Games library, before the pair of Kickstarters were run to fund it, and even before players were exchanging sharp axes and hefty hammers with anyone willing to pay, Battle Merchants once looked very different....
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Few things capture the imagination the way that dragons do, and the dragons of Havok & Hijinks doubly so. Just look at them! They’re mischievous and adorable at the same time. We weren’t sure what the inception behind these little...
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I often hear people ask game designers if they pick a mechanic or a theme first. With Relic Expedition, I picked both the expanding board mechanic and the jungle exploration theme before doing any prototyping. Development was a constant back...
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Normally when people talk about hitting the ground running, it isn’t meant literally. But that’s precisely what we’re doing here today. See, during the few months I decided I was going to get into better shape through running, I read...
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I’ve been playing a lot of Elder Sign lately because (a) it’s a great game, and (b) it’s one of the few really good, relatively quick co-op games I know (having played Pandemic just about into the ground over the...
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In the world of tabletop gaming, the person running the game, the mastermind behind the screen, is referred to by a number of different appellations. The most common titles by far are that of Game Master, or in D&D parlance,...
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