Boxed Culture


Boxed Culture: Shady Dealings

This sounds like a good title for a segment on a hidden traitor, euro game but unfortunately it is far less fun than that. We are currently in the midst of another board game company acting shady on Kickstarter and I have hit a point of no return. When a […]


Boxed Culture: Insanity is in the Cards

  Last time, long ago, we covered the myriad of Fantasy Flight Lovecraft games (check it out here). I feel like I left you hanging so bad there with the teaser for the next article. “Lovecraftian card games you say, how does that even work?” Well my friends this is […]


Boxed Culture: DCC 2015 and Mr. B Games 1

One of my favorite parts about going to conventions is the exhibition halls. They allow for most individuals, companies or organizations to set up a booth. This is great with small companies because you get to interacted with their whole staff. The more cons I attend the more I am learning […]


Boxed Culture: Family Ties

Recently I attended Starfest. Minus the primary cluster of the con that was there was a diamond in the rough, Gamefest. I tend to volunteer at conventions so I can see all the people and help and everything, and I was stationed in the Gamefest section. You can tell when […]


Boxed Culture: The Windows to Your Soul 1

In this Game Corner I would like to talk about something that is very important to me as a consumer of board games: How a LGS displays their games. Some shops do a superb job of organizing and keeping everything in a logical order. These shops are awesome and I […]


Boxed Culture: Games That Do it Better Than Descent 3

Descent Second Edition seem to be the quintessential dungeon crawler, and with so many tiles, scenarios, and minis many may topically agree. I am gonna take a stand right here and say Descent Second Edition is anything but a dungeon crawl game. I found it to more of an action  optimization game. […]


Boxed Culture: Knocking You Down to Get Ahead

So I was talking to a friend recently about a game called Garden Dice. In the game you roll 4 dice and use the rolls to buy seeds, plant seeds, water seeds, and harvest plants. You gain victory points for harvesting plants and getting different collections of plants. The individual […]


Boxed Culture: Similar Mechanics, Different Games (Part 1) 1

This time on Game Corner I am going to discuss how similar mechanics can affect how people view, play and judge games. The market place for games currently is booming, some even say we might be in a bubble (which is a topic for another article, possibly a Garion and […]


Boxed Culture: Researching Board Games 1

This week we are going to take a look the resources I use to gather information on board games. From internet sites to…other internet sites, this brief guide will help you get a very basic start on where to research board games Board Game Geek is one of the best […]


Boxed Culture: Terra Mystica

The second game on our 10 x 10 was called Terra Mysitca.  In Terra Mystica you pick from over ten various fantasy races and attempt to establish dominance by peacefully colonizing the world. only catch is there is only a certain type of space your race can build on with […]