Free-range thoughts about design, writing, and play
There are just a few hours left in 2018, but that’s enough time to do something I’ve been meaning to do for six months. Let’s stop procrastinating and finish out the year with a big-time, genuine, all-beef official Top 100 Board Games list!
Today marked my tenth play of Azul, the abstract board game of choosing tiles to make pretty walls. (My younger daughter skunked me, 65-40.) Ten plays in a year is pretty good for any game, but what makes this such a milestone?
Recently, my old college offered alumni the chance to send a letter to the current owners of our old student union mailbox numbers. Somehow, I got old enough to think this was a good idea.
I woke up this morning to an email from my mother and a lit-up internet. Fandom and the media are going wild: Patrick Stewart is returning to Star Trek as Jean-Luc Picard. Am I too much of a curmudgeon when I say “The line must be drawn here?”
You’d think the Roman empire was falling all over again. The new edition of Hisashi Hayashi’s Minerva has shipped, and its backers are up in arms. What went wrong?
These last few months have been whirlwind, but I can officially say it: I live in Finland now.
It’s almost the new year, and a good time to take a step back. How did 2016 stack up for the San Marcos Board Gamers?
“The Man Trap” premiered on September 8, 1966, which means that Star Trek has been living long and prospering for fifty years! If you’d like to celebrate with a board game and something… green… here are five great choices.
A few days ago, I received shipping notifications for the releases of Tesla vs. Edison and Evolution: Flight. My first thought was “yay!” And my second thought was, “I hope I can keep up with all my new games?” And my third thought was “What’s with all these game releases happening all at once?”
With the new Splendor app enjoying good reviews and 7 Wonders launching an open beta, publishers are falling over themselves to convert board games into apps. But there are a few games out there that might not work so well. Here are our top 5 games that probably shouldn’t be licensed just yet: