Free-range thoughts about design, writing, and play
We had a special guest at last week’s July Library Meetup! Aidan Diaz at the San Marcos Daily Record came by to take some pictures and talk with the group. It’s hard to tell if this will turn into a story — board games are fun, but they’re not as dynamic as Lego events or Pearl Harbor…
That was fast! It seems like just yesterday that I was setting up a meetup group, but this week the San Marcos Board Gamers complete their first year as an organization! “Organization” is a strong word, of course. We don’t really do anything formal, and I for one would like to keep it that way….
We played a bunch of micro-games at our June library meetup, and Eight Minute Empire was arguably the hit of the afternoon. That takes nothing away from Sail to India, though, which packs a meaty economic game into a few cards and cubes. In Sail to India, you are a Portuguese noble out to better his fortunes by…