The final round
I don't know if you've ever come across it, but the final round, or sometimes the final few rounds, of a game often feel different to the rest of the game.
Condottiere
The city-states of Venice, Florence and Genoa and their economy were doing extremely well.
Victory Conditions other than Victory Points
Victory points (VP) are so common in modern board games, along with the condition that the player at the end of the game with the most VP is declared the winner.
Six Greetings Card Games
Sending someone a letter seems to have become a thing of the past and sending people postcards is mostly restricted to when you've gone away on holiday - but it's been ages since many of us have done that.
Amelie Le-Roche
Amelie Le-Roche is a veteran video game animator, creating games in her free time.
Co-operative loss
A large number of board games are about winning and losing.
Library Labyrinth
It is the evening and everyone has gone home, but you.
Dwellings of Eldervale
We were still trying to understand the special powers of the 8 elemental realms and how our dragon, wizard and warriors could take advantage of each and how we could impose our dominance over the other factions in this growing world.
Variable replayability
The idea that variability and replayability in board games have the same meaning is understandable, but of course, even though the two terms are related, they are independent of each other.