The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have gone through several iterations over the past couple of decades. From the television and movie screen, they’ve rarely been out of the public consciousness. With that several games have come out featuring Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo, including the recent Shadows of the
Kickstarter is a great way for new designers to get their board games funded. However, often those games are sequels or don’t do much to stand apart from other games thematically or mechanically. When I saw Swordcrafters, I wanted to get a closer look at it because of the
In 2016 AEG introduced the concept of card crafting in Mystic Vale. The deck-building concepts we had seen in other games were present. However, as players received a card they would add it to a sleeve to create their own custom cards in their deck. This created many more combinations
CMON is known for having record-breaking Kickstarter board game campaigns with large minis and tons of stretch goals. HATE is their most recent project and it also contains very mature content and a violent post-apocalyptic setting. CMON also stated that this would be exclusive to this Kickstarter campaign. To find
Publishing a game from a new designer is often a risky proposition. However, even Richard Garfield, Eric Lang, and Reiner Knizia had to start somewhere. James Wilson’s first game is coming to Kickstarter with the assistance of the Game Salute spinoff Starling Games. To find out more about Everdell,
Twogether Studios is something special in the gaming world. Keith Baker and Jenn Ellis manage to balance married life with game design, and that design covers a lot of ground. As the creator of Eberron, Gloom, and the recent Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Card Game, Keith has many separate
I still remember being lucky enough being asked to try out a prototype of a deck-building game one day before Origins at a hotel nearby. That day I was introduced to Rob Dougherty and Star Realms. I knew it would be special, but I had no idea how big it
This year’s Gen Con was one of busiest ever since it was the 50th Anniversary and completely sold out for the entire show. While most people are there to have a fun time, it’s unfortunate to say that some unscrupulous activities occurred. One of those happened to Jon
