Cutting cakes
There is a great mechanism in tabletop games called "I cut, you choose", also known as "I split, you choose", which creates a very interesting dynamic.
Merge in turn
Prompted by the recent announcement of Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, I thought I would look at co-productions in the games industry as a whole.
Out with the old?
There has been a boom in tabletop games recently.
You're barred
If you play tabletop games with friends or maybe even in a games group, you may have come across certain taboos.
Box clever?
As everyone knows, tabletop games come in boxes - most of them cardboard, some metal, others maybe plastic, and a small handful simply come in an envelope.
Glamming it up
If you have played plenty of tabletop games, you will probably have come across many different times of game components of varying quality.
Digital to analog converter
Some of us will have been avid computer gamers before coming round to playing tabletop games - and of course there will have found digital versions of tabletop games and then started playing more computer games.
Testing times
As an avid tabletop gamer you will know that new games come out all the time, but what is not always clear is how much testing time has gone into creating a new game.
Keeping it in
If you host a regular games night, you probably know the feeling of getting everything ready in time before everyone arrives.
Teaching games
If you love tabletop games, you probably end up buying new games all the time.