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by W. Eric Martin How many card games do you like to play? One intensely over all others? A few? All of them?! If you fall in the latter category, then you'll want to learn about everything covered below. Otherwise, sample as you wish. - U.S.

by Andrea La Rosa This is the diary of my first game: Don Quixote: The Ingenious Hidalgo, which I have designed, illustrated, and published. In January 2024, I found myself unemployed, which on the upside gave me some free time to focus on game ...

by W. Eric Martin - Designer Tomáš Holek debuted at SPIEL Essen 24 with three games -- SETI, Tea Garden, and Galileo Galilei -- that all went over well with players, and in Q3 2025 he and publisher Pink Troubadour will release a game unlike any of ...

by Stéphane Escapa When Sébastien from Catch Up Games showed me what was to become Castle Combo (and which was codenamed "Arcanes" at that time), the 78 characters of the game were already pictured with art that kind of fit my "style", or, more ...

by W. Eric Martin - Wharf Rat Games is a new U.S. publisher run by designer Ryan Heilman that plans to debut in 2025 with A Forlorn Hope, a 1-3 player game from Hermann Luttmann: A Forlorn Hope is an abstract simulation wargame of a typical trench ...

by Greyfax Here is the discussion for this week: What are your best ideas for creating and maintaining a game night where we play heavier board games? There seems to be a tendency to slip into lighter games over time because some players prefer them.

by W. Eric Martin I'm a fan of many number-and-color card games, games in which the subject matter is nothing more than you playing a game and trying to outdo other players -- or co-operating with them, should that be the goal. I don't easily picture ...

by Chris Wray The author, hiding, is the sixth person from the right On Saturday, December 7, 2024, about five hundred gamers wound through the first-ever Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged. IGNM featured eighteen booths, each with an indie ...

by W. Eric Martin - In Q1 2025, German publisher Deep Print Games will release Rival Cities, a two-player game from Andreas Steding, a designer who releases titles infrequently -- only three standalone games since 2014's The Staufer Dynasty -- but ...

by Matthew Kambic License to Krill marks the debut of my first published game and the launch of my new publishing company, MaKa Games, LLC. This journey has been a fantastic learning experience, and there's still so much to discover. Here's a look ...