Seasonal Shifts As we play games through our lives there are ebbs and flows. Sometime we really love euros, then in a few months we may dislike the way all the ones we are playing feel. Sometimes there are shifts in the groups of people we play with or the time we have […]
Community or Clique? So this weekend an article by a tumblr blogger named latining went viral within the board gaming community. The article is here but be warned it has some very graphic descriptions of some events that have happened to a person or people in the board gaming community in Canada […]
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Interpreting The Zero Sum Lately, when I have been talking about games, I have run across a term. It is not Euro or Amerithrash. It is not Worker placement or Deck-builder. The term I am referring to is much more of a game theory term. The term is Zero Sum. Traditionally […]
Dark Souls 1 Welcome to our newest segment called Artificial Happiness. In this segment Aaron Sheppard and Kyle Hagan try to take our skill (or lack there of) at video games and pit them against some of the hardest and most complex games out there. Aaron is a mechanical engineer who dabbles […]
Every year I volunteer for an event called Starfest. I work Hospitality, which is a fancy way of saying”we check wristbands.” The best part for me is when I get stationed to check wristbands in front of the Gamefest room. Gamefest is my favorite part of Starfest. It is all […]
Finding the Time We all have lives outside of board gaming. This can sometimes make getting together to play our favorite games hard. So how do you make time for doing something you love? Do you have to leave everything you know behind and move to a country where board games are […]
Gamers Teaching Gaming – Explain Your Self! Someone suggested the other day that I write an article about how to teach gaming. I was thinking about doing this for a bit but I was spurred to action with the confidence of another saying I was a fairly good teacher! I decided […]
A colleague of mine loves H.P. Lovecraft even more than I do. He came across a YouTube video discussing the gamification of the Lovecraft/Cthulhu mythos. While the video is talking about video games we had an interesting discussion involving the board game world. That is what I would like to discuss today […]
