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The Blog

The Tabletop Games Blog is about all things board, card, dexterity and other modern games. Every week there is a new review and a topic discussion piece, all of which are also released in audio format on the podcast.

Additionally, there is the Let me illustrate podcast series where board game artists answer a catalogue of 17 questions about themselves.

Writers for the Blog

Apart from me (see more information about me further down), there have been a number of other people who wrote guest posts on this blog. Of course, the opinions expressed in those articles are those of the authors and do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of Tabletop Games Blog:

• Michael Fox is the former producer and presenter of The Little Metal Dog Show, designer of Keep Running!, Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr, MegaCity: Oceania and now releases games as Wayfinder Games.
• Filip Redelius is the designer of Fog of Adventures, a game created using AI with the goal to create something new and interesting.
• Lewis Shaw is one of the founders of Braincrack Games, alongside Emily, and their journey into board games began when a friend introduced them to Takenoko, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Coup and more.
• Joe Slack has been designing board games since 2014 and helped over 4,000 game designers through his books and teaching, including The Board Game Design Course.
• Laurie Trueblood founded Adventures of Authenticity in 2021 after facing a personal crisis as a way to share what she learned and to help others that were equally feeling lost in life.

Me

My name is Oliver Kinne. I live by the sunny south coast of the United Kingdom and have been playing modern tabletop games for over 15 years. I have also enjoyed writing fiction since I was in my teens. So in May 2018, I started the Tabletop Games Blog combining my two hobbies.

Additionally:

• I am a member of the Brainwaves board game news podcast team.
• I am an associate writer for There Will Be Games.
• My reviews featured on a number of crowdfunding campaigns:
  • float downstream from Blood Moon Games
  • Whimsical creatures, frantic gameplay, and root vegetables from Stuff by Bez
  • Six Greetings Car Games and Uranus! from The Dark Imp
  • Library Labyrinth from Dissent Games
  • Pilfering Pandas and Sensor Ghosts from Wren Games
  • Small Railroad Empires + mini expansion + playmat from Archona Games
  • Curators from Worldshapers
  • The Blessed Dark by Nathan Meunier
  • Swatch from Minerva Tabletop
• One of my articles was published in the UK Games Expo 2021 programme.
• I was a judge and coach for the Board Game Workshop Design Contest 2019 and 2020.
• I playtested a number of commercially released tabletop games, including Empires of the Void II by Red Raven Games (see page 35 of the rulebook), Chai by Steeped Games (see box lid) and Coral Islands by Alleycat Games (see page 16 of the rulebook).
• I am a contributing author to The Tabletop Spirit digital magazine (issue #10, pages 39-49 and issue #9, pages 22-23).
• I appeared on a number of other podcasts as a guest, where you can find out a bit more about me personally:
  • Die Spielträumer episode 54 (German): https://www.spieltraeumer.de/podcast/the-spieltraeumers-54-deckbuilding-deathmatch/
  • Die Brettagogen episode 144 (German): https://brettagoge.de/144-von-voegeln-und-hudern-teamteaching/
  • We’re Not Wizards: https://www.werenotwizards.com/e/episode-320-oliver-kinne-tabletop-games-blog/
• I even appeared in one of Semi Co-Op‘s comics: https://www.semicoop.com/comic/new-years-resolutions/

If you want to find out what I’m up to, you can find me here:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/tabletopgamesbl
• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tabletopgamesblog.bsky.social
• Mastodon: https://tabletop.social/web/@tabletopgamesblog
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tabletopgamesblog
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tabletopgamesblog/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tabletopgamesblog/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TabletopGamesBlog
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tabletopgamesblog
• Discord: https://discord.gg/zMfK3Bp
• There Will Be Games: https://therewillbe.games/by-author/associates/articles-by-oliver-kinne

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