James van Tonningen

A diesel powered mech crunches through a pastoral field in the distance, smoke pouring from the artillery mounted to its chassis. In the foreground, a group of farmers continue working their fields, though the worry on their faces from the nearness of the war is apparent. You’ll find this

Our greatest creation has turned on us.  The great mechanical monstrosity just kept growing, devouring resources to fuel its own growth.  It’s time for the people that made it to put an end to it. Deep Into & Back Out of the Belly of a Huge Mechanical Beast, or

The industrial revolution has begun in the country of Astoria, a land of animal-folk.  The railroad boom has begun, and you are an industrialist with the task of connecting towns with railroads and using a resource market to fund the process. Raccoon Tycoon by Forbidden Games is an economic game

The world is ending, and here we are, arguing about a bunch of dirt.  Eschaton is about armageddon, and the cultists bringing it about.  Each player controls one faction of the cult, seeking to earn points with the Dark Lord before the end of it all. Mechanically, it’s a

The duel: two combatants enter, one combatant leaves.  That is the basic premise of Till the Last Gasp, a two player collaborative storytelling board game from publisher Derrington Press. To start, each player will either choose a character from the provided set of characters, or choose to make their own.

The world is clawing its way out of centuries of barbarism and religious stricture, and our little game centers on 4 particular kingdoms. Two of these kingdoms are led by mortals with few resources, but a great hunger for power. Another is the domain of a cult and eager to

New Dawn City is under attack.  The insidious Syndicate has set its sights on the last bastion of order in the not-so-distant future, and has sent its cyborg minions to take over your fair city.  It’s up to you, a team of hackers utilizing an experimental system, to hack

Giant robots were my childhood, from watching Voltron and Transformers on early Saturday mornings to Gundam Wing on late nights, there was nothing cooler than a giant robot punching another giant robot.  Unless those giant robots also combined into an even bigger, cooler robot!  And that, of course, is the