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You might be forgiven for thinking Concordia is a Roman themed zombie apocalypse game, given the cover. That poor woman - she has the dull, vacant stare of the recently dead. Her lips are crusted with dried blood and parted in a smile that is only a whisker away from a RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR COLOUR BLINDNESS The Issue of Colour Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of board games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is colour blindness. Each board game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for its suitability for people TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND The thing is though, it’s a hard requirement to filter around. If you do a BoardGameGeek search for two player games you’ll find things like Blood Rage (widely considered to be a snooze-fest at two), Root (likewise), 7 Wonders (with a two player mode that involves the use of an incredibly annoying automaton), and Coup (which honestly TOP TEN REASONS TO CULL A GAME FROM YOUR For example, conspicuous consumption. In today’s special feature I’m going to give you a list of the ten reasons I used to cull my collection, and give you some examples of games that fell into each of the categories. Culling of your collection is good. Curation is a valuable activity. Maybe you’ll find this a useful way to getstarted!
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CONCORDIA (2013)
You might be forgiven for thinking Concordia is a Roman themed zombie apocalypse game, given the cover. That poor woman - she has the dull, vacant stare of the recently dead. Her lips are crusted with dried blood and parted in a smile that is only a whisker away from a RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR COLOUR BLINDNESS The Issue of Colour Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of board games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is colour blindness. Each board game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for its suitability for people TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND The thing is though, it’s a hard requirement to filter around. If you do a BoardGameGeek search for two player games you’ll find things like Blood Rage (widely considered to be a snooze-fest at two), Root (likewise), 7 Wonders (with a two player mode that involves the use of an incredibly annoying automaton), and Coup (which honestly TOP TEN REASONS TO CULL A GAME FROM YOUR For example, conspicuous consumption. In today’s special feature I’m going to give you a list of the ten reasons I used to cull my collection, and give you some examples of games that fell into each of the categories. Culling of your collection is good. Curation is a valuable activity. Maybe you’ll find this a useful way to getstarted!
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Much like the national parks system itself, Parks the game is an absolute treasure. And like the national parks system, you shouldn’t overlook it just because there are flashier forms of entertainment available. It’s a gorgeous production with a straightforward ruleset that promises little and then over-delivers in spades. TOP TEN REASONS TO CULL A GAME FROM YOUR For example, conspicuous consumption. In today’s special feature I’m going to give you a list of the ten reasons I used to cull my collection, and give you some examples of games that fell into each of the categories. Culling of your collection is good. Curation is a valuable activity. Maybe you’ll find this a useful way to getstarted!
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RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND TOTAL The Issue of Visual Impairments and Total Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is visual impairment and total blindness. Each game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for BOARD GAMES WITH GREAT LESSONS FOR ACCESSIBLE DESIGN Cards Against Humanity (I know, I know) has some of the clearest and most visually distinctive graphic design in gaming. Unless you’re doing ‘words on a card’ as the entire core of your game it might be difficult to learn much from it. So, with no further ado – ten (ish) games with great accessible design features that game designers MEEPLE LIKE USABOUT USLIST OF REVIEWSRECOMMENDERSERVICESGUIDELINESSUPPORT THE SITE Meeple Like Us is producing board game reviews and game accessibility analyses aimed at mapping out the game accessibility landscape. If you're wondering where you might want to get started with accessible board games, we have some suggestions that won't break the bank. Or check out our recommender. If you are an academic looking to formally cite this work, click here. SERVICES - MEEPLE LIKE US Last Updated 29/4/2018 - added accessibility consultancy details 18/11/2019 - added cost calculator 15/12/2019 - Updated address If you want Kickstarter publicity Unless we have a previously existing relationship with a game or publisher I'm afraid thisCONCORDIA (2013)
You might be forgiven for thinking Concordia is a Roman themed zombie apocalypse game, given the cover. That poor woman - she has the dull, vacant stare of the recently dead. Her lips are crusted with dried blood and parted in a smile that is only a whisker away from a BOARD GAME IDEA GENERATOR This board game idea generator is in an alpha state. It’s not quite finished, and has a lot more to be populated in each of the categories. It’s just a bit of fun just now, but this will feed into the cardboard prototyping work I’m doing with my User Centred Design module. Hopefully it’ll be of some interest to you for now – feelfree
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MLU001 – A Free Training Workshop for Cardboard Prototyping. A couple of years ago I wrote a special feature on Cardboard Prototyping. It was a discussion of how I and my colleague Mike Crabb were using board games as a mechanism for teaching the intricacies of paper prototyping within our user centred design module. TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND TOTAL The Issue of Visual Impairments and Total Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is visual impairment and total blindness. Each game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND The thing is though, it’s a hard requirement to filter around. If you do a BoardGameGeek search for two player games you’ll find things like Blood Rage (widely considered to be a snooze-fest at two), Root (likewise), 7 Wonders (with a two player mode that involves the use of an incredibly annoying automaton), and Coup (which honestly SCHOTTEN-TOTTEN (1999) Schotten-Totten (Gaelic for Shootin’ Tootin’) is a surprisingly lovely game that combines genuinely affectionate Scottish stereotyping with interesting card play. If I had to describe the gameplay, and I do because that’s part of what a review has to be, I’d say it was like a one-versus-many chess match that was really one-versus-one withpoker.
MEEPLE LIKE USABOUT USLIST OF REVIEWSRECOMMENDERSERVICESGUIDELINESSUPPORT THE SITE Meeple Like Us is producing board game reviews and game accessibility analyses aimed at mapping out the game accessibility landscape. If you're wondering where you might want to get started with accessible board games, we have some suggestions that won't break the bank. Or check out our recommender. If you are an academic looking to formally cite this work, click here. SERVICES - MEEPLE LIKE US Last Updated 29/4/2018 - added accessibility consultancy details 18/11/2019 - added cost calculator 15/12/2019 - Updated address If you want Kickstarter publicity Unless we have a previously existing relationship with a game or publisher I'm afraid thisCONCORDIA (2013)
You might be forgiven for thinking Concordia is a Roman themed zombie apocalypse game, given the cover. That poor woman - she has the dull, vacant stare of the recently dead. Her lips are crusted with dried blood and parted in a smile that is only a whisker away from a BOARD GAME IDEA GENERATOR This board game idea generator is in an alpha state. It’s not quite finished, and has a lot more to be populated in each of the categories. It’s just a bit of fun just now, but this will feed into the cardboard prototyping work I’m doing with my User Centred Design module. Hopefully it’ll be of some interest to you for now – feelfree
RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR COLOUR BLINDNESS The Issue of Colour Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of board games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is colour blindness. Each board game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for its suitability for peopleSPECIAL FEATURE
MLU001 – A Free Training Workshop for Cardboard Prototyping. A couple of years ago I wrote a special feature on Cardboard Prototyping. It was a discussion of how I and my colleague Mike Crabb were using board games as a mechanism for teaching the intricacies of paper prototyping within our user centred design module. TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND TOTAL The Issue of Visual Impairments and Total Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is visual impairment and total blindness. Each game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND The thing is though, it’s a hard requirement to filter around. If you do a BoardGameGeek search for two player games you’ll find things like Blood Rage (widely considered to be a snooze-fest at two), Root (likewise), 7 Wonders (with a two player mode that involves the use of an incredibly annoying automaton), and Coup (which honestly SCHOTTEN-TOTTEN (1999) Schotten-Totten (Gaelic for Shootin’ Tootin’) is a surprisingly lovely game that combines genuinely affectionate Scottish stereotyping with interesting card play. If I had to describe the gameplay, and I do because that’s part of what a review has to be, I’d say it was like a one-versus-many chess match that was really one-versus-one withpoker.
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TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND The thing is though, it’s a hard requirement to filter around. If you do a BoardGameGeek search for two player games you’ll find things like Blood Rage (widely considered to be a snooze-fest at two), Root (likewise), 7 Wonders (with a two player mode that involves the use of an incredibly annoying automaton), and Coup (which honestly TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
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Thousand Year Old Vampire (2020) by Michael Heron on 05/03/2021 in Board Game Review. This review is a little bit of an experiment in branching out from the site’s core remit. Thousand Year Old Vampire bills itself as a ‘solo roleplaying game of memory, loss and vampires’ and I discovered it largely by accident. ACCESSIBILITY TEARDOWN by Michael Heron on 15/01/2021 in Accessibility Teardown, Board Game Accessibility. Inhuman Conditions is an unfortunate game. It’s a brave idea that just doesn’t, at least in my experience, work often enough to be worth playing. It got one and a half stars in our review. RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR COGNITIVE AND MEMORY The Issue of Cognitive Impairments in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is cognitive impairment. Each game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for its suitability for people with fluid TOP TEN REASONS TO CULL A GAME FROM YOUR For example, conspicuous consumption. In today’s special feature I’m going to give you a list of the ten reasons I used to cull my collection, and give you some examples of games that fell into each of the categories. Culling of your collection is good. Curation is a valuable activity. Maybe you’ll find this a useful way to getstarted!
MEEPLE LIKE USABOUT USLIST OF REVIEWSRECOMMENDERSERVICESGUIDELINESSUPPORT THE SITE Meeple Like Us is producing board game reviews and game accessibility analyses aimed at mapping out the game accessibility landscape. If you're wondering where you might want to get started with accessible board games, we have some suggestions that won't break the bank. Or check out our recommender. If you are an academic looking to formally cite this work, click here. ABOUT US - MEEPLE LIKE US Currently, Meeple Like Us is made up of: Dr. Michael James Heron (editor) – Senior lecturer in Interaction Design (games and graphics) at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was also Time’s person of the year in 2006, but doesn’t really like to brag about it. Pauline Belford – lecturer in computing andBOARD GAME REVIEWS
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BOARD GAME IDEA GENERATOR This board game idea generator is in an alpha state. It’s not quite finished, and has a lot more to be populated in each of the categories. It’s just a bit of fun just now, but this will feed into the cardboard prototyping work I’m doing with my User Centred Design module. Hopefully it’ll be of some interest to you for now – feelfree
CONCORDIA (2013)
You might be forgiven for thinking Concordia is a Roman themed zombie apocalypse game, given the cover. That poor woman - she has the dull, vacant stare of the recently dead. Her lips are crusted with dried blood and parted in a smile that is only a whisker away from a RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR COLOUR BLINDNESS The Issue of Colour Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of board games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is colour blindness. Each board game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for its suitability for people TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND The thing is though, it’s a hard requirement to filter around. If you do a BoardGameGeek search for two player games you’ll find things like Blood Rage (widely considered to be a snooze-fest at two), Root (likewise), 7 Wonders (with a two player mode that involves the use of an incredibly annoying automaton), and Coup (which honestly TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND TOTAL The Issue of Visual Impairments and Total Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is visual impairment and total blindness. Each game that we review gets an alphabetic grade forDIXIT (2008)
Dixit is (almost) first rate in this category. There is gendered artwork, but none of it is sexualised, politicised or radicalised. At least, not overtly – there is nothing that would stop individual people making their own assumptions and connections on the artwork, but that’s something external to MEEPLE LIKE USABOUT USLIST OF REVIEWSRECOMMENDERSERVICESGUIDELINESSUPPORT THE SITE Meeple Like Us is producing board game reviews and game accessibility analyses aimed at mapping out the game accessibility landscape. If you're wondering where you might want to get started with accessible board games, we have some suggestions that won't break the bank. Or check out our recommender. If you are an academic looking to formally cite this work, click here. ABOUT US - MEEPLE LIKE US Currently, Meeple Like Us is made up of: Dr. Michael James Heron (editor) – Senior lecturer in Interaction Design (games and graphics) at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was also Time’s person of the year in 2006, but doesn’t really like to brag about it. Pauline Belford – lecturer in computing andBOARD GAME REVIEWS
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BOARD GAME IDEA GENERATOR This board game idea generator is in an alpha state. It’s not quite finished, and has a lot more to be populated in each of the categories. It’s just a bit of fun just now, but this will feed into the cardboard prototyping work I’m doing with my User Centred Design module. Hopefully it’ll be of some interest to you for now – feelfree
CONCORDIA (2013)
You might be forgiven for thinking Concordia is a Roman themed zombie apocalypse game, given the cover. That poor woman - she has the dull, vacant stare of the recently dead. Her lips are crusted with dried blood and parted in a smile that is only a whisker away from a RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR COLOUR BLINDNESS The Issue of Colour Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of board games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is colour blindness. Each board game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for its suitability for people TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND The thing is though, it’s a hard requirement to filter around. If you do a BoardGameGeek search for two player games you’ll find things like Blood Rage (widely considered to be a snooze-fest at two), Root (likewise), 7 Wonders (with a two player mode that involves the use of an incredibly annoying automaton), and Coup (which honestly TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND TOTAL The Issue of Visual Impairments and Total Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is visual impairment and total blindness. Each game that we review gets an alphabetic grade forDIXIT (2008)
Dixit is (almost) first rate in this category. There is gendered artwork, but none of it is sexualised, politicised or radicalised. At least, not overtly – there is nothing that would stop individual people making their own assumptions and connections on the artwork, but that’s something external to RECOMMENDED BOARD GAMES FOR VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND TOTAL The Issue of Visual Impairments and Total Blindness in Board Games We look at the accessibility of a lot of games here on Meeple Like us, and one of the things we look at is visual impairment and total blindness. Each game that we review gets an alphabetic grade for TOP TWELVE BEST BOARD GAMES WITH WHICH TO START A Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefitof
TEN MODERN GAMES TO REPLACE CLASSIC GAMES Supporting our Work. We spend many hours a week investigating the accessibility of board games. What we do is unique.It's a job that needs to be done but we need your help to make sure we can keep on doing it.. If you believe board game accessibility is important and can support our Patreon you'd be helping make sure the site can continue with this valuable work.SPECIAL FEATURE
MLU001 – A Free Training Workshop for Cardboard Prototyping. A couple of years ago I wrote a special feature on Cardboard Prototyping. It was a discussion of how I and my colleague Mike Crabb were using board games as a mechanism for teaching the intricacies of paper prototyping within our user centred design module. ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES These are now currently under production! Our goal with the Tabletop Accessibility Guidelines (TTAG) is to provide guidance for publishers and designers to make their games more broadly accessible to gamers currently facing barriers to play. We do not expect every guideline to be appropriate for every game, nor every TOP TEN REASONS TO CULL A GAME FROM YOUR For example, conspicuous consumption. In today’s special feature I’m going to give you a list of the ten reasons I used to cull my collection, and give you some examples of games that fell into each of the categories. Culling of your collection is good. Curation is a valuable activity. Maybe you’ll find this a useful way to getstarted!
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SCHOTTEN-TOTTEN (1999) Schotten-Totten (Gaelic for Shootin’ Tootin’) is a surprisingly lovely game that combines genuinely affectionate Scottish stereotyping with interesting card play. If I had to describe the gameplay, and I do because that’s part of what a review has to be, I’d say it was like a one-versus-many chess match that was really one-versus-one withpoker.
THE CASTLES OF MAD KING LUDWIG (2014) Castles of Mad King Ludwig is a game based on adjacencies and connections. It’s the very epitome of ‘ forgetting the weight of the books ’ – a drive towards satisfying small-scale goals with no regards to the wider context in which those goals function. It’s nota
JOKING HAZARD (2016) Socioeconomic Accessibility. The language used in the rules is gender neutral. It seems weird to say it, but Joking Hazard kind of has an inclusivity thing going on in its card designs. The two main characters in the game are not explicitly gendered – they are men or women or neither depending on the circumstances.MAIN MENU
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Wingspan has been something of a phenomenon, generating sales and attentions that far outstrip the expectations of people that work and comment in this industry. It’s a beautifully presented game with the typical Stonemaier attention to detail, but in my experience it falls awkwardly between the conceptual accessibility of its…Read more
WINGSPAN (2019)
by Michael Heron
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in Board Game Review Let me take a slightly different tack with this review of Wingspan than I would normally. Let me do it as a story of first impressions and an extended meditation on the nature and value of theme. We all know theme is an important element of a game – a good…Read more
TOP TEN BEST GAMES TO SAVE CHRISTMASby Michael Heron
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I know, I know – it’s so early to be talking about Christmas. We all wish we could just get it over with in a couple of days, but the festivities start earlier and earlier every year. I swear in 2018 that I went into a supermarket on the 26th…Read more
SCOTLAND YARD (1983) – ACCESSIBILITY TEARDOWNby Michael Heron
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Scotland Yard is a game that was remarkable at the time – clever, creative and the first game of which I can think where the formula of a hidden movement game was fully expressed. It doesn’t stand up quite so well today, but there’s only so much you can expect…Read more
SCOTLAND YARD (1983)by Michael Heron
on 06/11/2019
in Board Game
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It occurred to me this morning that we hadn’t yet tackled a hidden movement game for Meeple Like Us. Here we are, almost two hundred games done, and we’ve managed to miss this whole genre entirely. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. I will begin to make my penance bytalking…
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DEPTH YEAR DIARY, OCTOBER 2019by Michael Heron
on 05/11/2019
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PATRON NEWSLETTER, OCTOBER 2019by Michael Heron
on 04/11/2019
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MEEPLE MONTHLY ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 2019by Michael Heron
on 03/11/2019
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EXODUS – PROXIMA CENTAURI (2013) – ACCESSIBILITY TEARDOWNby Michael Heron
on 02/11/2019
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It’s been a while since we’ve covered a really excellent game on the blog. Exodus: Proxima Centauri has broken a stream of subdued praise by virtue of being a genuinely superb game of space exploration and conquest. It’s a beefy game, with complicated rules and a lengthy playtime – but…Read more
EXODUS – PROXIMA CENTAURI (2012)by Michael Heron
on 30/10/2019
in Board
Game Review
I’ve never actually played Twilight Imperium and that’s one of my main board gaming regrets. As a forty-one year old man though, carving out a day to play through one session of a single game is a bad use of my time. As part of the Meeple Like Us review…Read more
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS ON THE JOB OF REVIEWINGby Michael Heron
on 28/10/2019
in Editorial
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on the topic of board game reviewing – the past few months of special features have either been largely populist (the top tens) or completely self-indulgent (such as discussing our move to Sweden, our time at Tabletop Scotland and so on). …Read more
CARTA IMPERA VICTORIA (2018) – ACCESSIBILITY TEARDOWNby Michael Heron
on 26/10/2019
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Carta Impera Victoria (CIV) is a game that has almost no hints in its external design as to the kind of game it actually is. It looks like a race when it’s really a bitterly pointed tug-of-war where every player must violently get in the way of every other player…Read more
CARTA IMPERA VICTORIA (2018)by Michael Heron
on 23/10/2019
in Board
Game Review
The first time I played it, I bounced so hard off of Carta Impera Victoria (CIV) that it may as well have been made of weapons-grade military rubber. It seemed an utterly asinine game where you basically race to lay out enough cards to win the game, with only a…Read more
CLACKS (2015) – ACCESSIBILITY TEARDOWNby Michael Heron
on 19/10/2019
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Oh, how I want to love Clacks. I want to love any game that looks to expand the Discworld franchise that I so adore. As I write this I’m contemplating the logistics of moving to Sweden as a result of a job offer. I’ve separated out my thousands of books…Read more
CLACKS (2015)
by Michael Heron
on 17/10/2019
in Board Game Review In our review of Discworld: Ankh Morpork I wrote what is effectively a love letter to Terry Pratchett’s wonderfully warm and funny universe of magical misadventure and narrative causality. More than that though, the review was a chance to reflect on what makes a satisfying theme and how there are…Read more
TOP TEN BEST BOARD GAMES FOR COUPLES AND BESTEST BUDSby Michael Heron
on 14/10/2019
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A very large proportion of my game-playing is with Mrs Meeple. The thing about getting older is that you’re more likely to see your friends at the funeral of a mutual than you are at a game night. Life just gets in the way. Kids, jobs, the sheer exhaustingtiredness…
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6 NIMMT! (1994) – ACCESSIBILITY TEARDOWNby Michael Heron
on 12/10/2019
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I described 6 Nimmt in our review as being ‘The Mind for people that didn’t like the Mind’ and I think that’s a decent frame to understand its appeal. Released in 1994, it’s still the best ‘putting cards in an order’ game I’ve played. Despite the inherent chaos of what…Read more
6 NIMMT! (1994)
by Michael Heron
on 09/10/2019
in Board Game Review If you’re a regular reader of this site you may remember that we had a somewhat contrarian view on The Mind. It’s a game that I still think of as mostly recruitment material for a weird and esoteric cult that will surely rise up and kill us all before too…Read more
DEPTH YEAR DIARY, SEPTEMBER 2019by Michael Heron
on 06/10/2019
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PLANET (2018) – ACCESSIBILITY TEARDOWNby Michael Heron
on 05/10/2019
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Planet is a visually striking game that is perhaps an ideal starter for newbies to the modern hobby. It’s pleasingly tactile, straightforward to play, and has such a distinctive hook that it’s hard to not want to play. We gave it three and a half stars in ourreview, noting…
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