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by W. Eric Martin Croc's two-player "battle against demons" game Claustrophobia has been released in two editions to date -- first in 2009 from asmodee, then in 2019 from Monolith Board Games -- and now publisher Devir is breaking the ten-year cycle ...

by W. Eric Martin In August 2025, I previewed Elizabeth Hargrave's game Sanibel after playing a mock-up at the Avalon Hill booth at Gen Con 2025 -- and to continue the theme of "What does Avalon Hill even represent any more?" today I'm announcing ...

by itten games Editor's note: Here's a design and development history of itten's SPIEL Essen 25 release, told in the form of a Q&A session. --WEM Diver Go! is a new set-collection game designed by Mashiu and published by itten from Japan. It's a game ...

by W. Eric Martin German publisher AMIGO Spiel launched a U.S. subsidiary in 2018, releasing twenty titles that year that had previously been available only in Europe or through licenses with U.S. publishing partners. In an October 15, 2025 press ...

by Oleg Meleshin This article was written by the game's designer Oleg Meleshin, with significant contributions from lead developer Dan Lièvre and other members of the CrowD Games team. 1. Coming Up with a Concept As we get older, we often return to ...

by Richard Garfield There is no doubt what made me a gamer -- it was Dungeons & Dragons. When I discovered that game, it changed my world. It showed me something of what is possible with games, and it made me ask myself what other games are out there ...

by Shei Santos The Beginning The idea of designing a two-player version of one of our games came about in the most informal way possible. During a conversation in 2024, our editor David Esbrí asked us, "Haven't you thought about designing a two ...

by W. Eric Martin I'm a big fan of Susan McKinley Ross' game Qwirkle, having played it dozens of times over the past eighteen years, including a period in which my wife, a friend, and I played all sorts of homegrown variants. In one variant, we ...

by Orlando Sá Adamastor holds a special place in my game designer's heart. It was the first game I ever designed (at least the first one I actually finished), which I proudly released as a free print & play on BGG in 2017. It survived the test of ...

by Simon Makoto was born soon after I returned from a large game-playing convention where traditionally players enjoyed Tichu, a complex four-player shedding game with a steep learning curve, some protocols that resemble the bidding in bridge, and ...