The Knizia Almanac is one of the occasional special issues of the spielbox magazine. After two issues about games (Settlers of Catan in 2000 and Carcassonne in 2005), this one appeared in 2006 as a tribute to one of the greatest and most prolific game authors of all time: Reiner Knizia.
Tonight, five of us were due to play a game of Ticket to Ride Europe for the Eurogames tournament the club is organising this year. Richard was unable to come, so Paul B., Julian, David and myself sat around the table. Paul would have liked to have a practice game first, but Julian couldn’t face the psychologically damaging possibility of performing better in practice than in the tournament game, so we went straight for the ‘real thing’. Read more… »
Today I received 4 spielbox special issues I had ordered, each with an expansion. Read more… »
Today I received spielbox issue 3/2009, with two small expansions for Tigris & Euphrates and Planet Steam. The contents is as follows, with games in italics receiving an average reviewer score above 7/10: Read more… »
Who knows? But thanks to a group of Welsh shepherds and their trained dogs we finally know what electric sheep dream of: Pong! No self-respecting game blog can withhold such valuable information from the gaming community. Fast forward the clip below to 0:45 to see for yourself.
Tonight, André, Big Nick, Paul B. and I played two games of Ticket to Ride: Europe. André won the first game, Nick the second, both in similar ways: Read more… »
I’m currently taking the pilot (i.e. not public) presentation of Digital worlds: designing games, creating alternative realities, a new 10-week distance learning course about computer games, their history, their economic and cultural impact and their design. As a practical taster of the issues surrounding the design of games, we get to create our own games using GameMaker. Read more… »
The contents of spielbox issue 2/2009 is as follows, underlining the games the reviewers liked most: Read more… »
Today I received my copy of spielbox issue 1/2009, with the following contents: Read more… »
20 November 2008 was another great gaming night! I played 3 different games (not that common, as you know from previous posts), all of them very good (even rarer), and I had the pleasure of winning two of them and coming 2nd in the other (quite astounding!). Interestingly, the three games use similar mechanisms: they are card-driven, and two of them are connection + majority games. Read more… »
