Yearly Archives: 2016


The Living Card Guy: Coping with Change

The Living Card Guy In this new segment, Boxed Culture author Kyle Hagan will cover all the cool stuff he does with Living Card Games (LCGs).  Since Boxed Culture is more board game-centric, these articles are meant to pull the LCG articles out, so they can live free on their own. […]


Boxed Culture: Expansion Madness!!

Expansion Madness!! A few weeks ago a new expansion came out for Elder Sign called Omens of Ice. For those not in the know, Elder Sign is a Lovecraftian themed, dice-rolling, cooperative game.  This expansion is similar to the last one in that it replaces the museum cards from the […]


Graphic Reviews: The Wake

The Wake I find environmental dystopians to be a rather fascinating genre that seems to have only gathered steam as the debate about climate change ramps up and becomes more important to people in general. Whatever your view on climate change, the idea of the oceans swallowing large parts of […]


A Bard’s Eye View: Like a Boss

Like a Boss Music Appropriate for Video Game Bosses   I’ve been working on this crazy tabletop RPG with a super overreaching story arc. While coming up with ideas, I’ve been thinking about a lot of music that seems to set the tone for a good boss battle. These songs, […]


Fun: noun. Enjoyment? yes. Logical? no 1

Fun is a tricky concept to nail down.  It’s fleeting, inconsistent, subjective and thoroughly undefinable.  It’s so abstract that it’s amazing we can even use it as a concept at all.  Yet, we all know it quite well and can easily discern which activities are going to be fun and […]


Boxed Culture: Gamers Teaching Gaming – The Little Things

Gamers Teaching Gaming The Gamers Teaching Gaming segment is about teaching games. This is part two you can read them in any order but the other parts are here! The Little Things This is the ever awaited second part of the Gamers teaching Gaming segment. This segment is not going […]


Moviephors: The War on Aliens

The War on Aliens Moviephors – Metaphors in Movies, an Introduction Here is a quick breakdown on the concept of this article. Every other Sunday I will be posting a small essay on the metaphors or symbolism found in a particular film. Said metaphors may not be direct, but in […]


Graphic Reviews: Debris 1

Debris One of the dangers of being a bibliophile is that the battle of the to-read stacks is never-ending. This is especially true for graphic novels because hundreds of issues are published each month and even once collected into volumes, it’s nigh impossible to keep up with. Even if you […]