Teaching games – light games
In my third article about teaching games, I want to talk about light games.
Teaching games – learning together
Continuing in my series of articles about how to teach games to others, I want to talk about maybe the best approach - and that is getting your games group to learn a game together.
Teaching games – VP games
Teaching someone the rules to a board game is never easy.
For the win
There are so-called "race" games, where the first player to fulfil certain winning conditions takes the victory and the game ends immediately.
Zenobia Award
I think something that many of us in the hobby feel very bad about, are the many board games that are set against historic events, but that make no attempt to respectfully represent what happened and often sweep under the carpet the atrocities that were committed during the time that the games are set.
All tied up
Someone once said that board games are basically just a framework to arbitrate a victor.
The Metaverse
Learning a new game, playing it for the first time, probably with a few rules mistakes, then playing it again, now with a better understanding of how the game works, then playing it once more, after having formulated a rough strategy and feeling you know what the game wants from you is a lot of fun.
Carbon-neutral games
With a climate catastrophe looming on the horizon, more and more people do what they can to try and turn things around or at least do their bit to slowly steer things in the right direction.
Board game trailers
We're used to seeing epic movie-style trailers for video games.
Clickbait doesn’t work
Maybe you're reading this now, because you saw the title of the article and wondered what it meant.