Tabletop Games

In a very real sense, everyone who has played a role-playing game is a designer. We have all tweaked rules or made new ones whole cloth to fit our games. That said, there is a world of difference between the informal ideas we throw around the table at one another,

While the cyberpunk theme is popular in the world of science fiction, it’s not heavily used.  The merging of technology with humankind is becoming more reality, so you’d think that we’d see it more as a setting.  Emergence: Dark Ops is the sequel to Emergence, taking the

Sometimes you see a game on Kickstarter that looks good but just doesn’t have the hype behind it because it doesn’t have an established publisher.  Sometimes these games will get the attention of a publisher later, go through some spit and polish, and fund in a successful campaign

While I don’t mind reading through a rulebook, teaching games continues to challenge me.  I don’t have a problem getting the rules of the game, but translating them to the the people at the table seems to be difficult.  Plenty of videos explaining the rules have been created,

When Asmodee bought up some of the entities within F2Z Entertainment, a few groups decided to create their own publisher, and Plan B Games was born.  Their inaugural original game comes from designer Emerson Matsuuchi, creator of the hits VOLT: Robot Battle Arena and Specter Ops.  He sat me through

If you’ve seen any of my posts about White Wizard Games, you know that I thought they had something special with Star Realms before it was even released.  Since then they have released Epic and Hero Realms.  I stopped by at Origins and talked to Robert Dougherty about their

Calliope Games is a company that consistently publishes fun family games.  While their biggest hit is the path-creating Tsuro, they have several other fun games.  If you haven’t tried Hive Mind, you owe it to yourself to check it out.  Soon Calliope will be releasing two new games, Ancestree

Being a small publisher can make it difficult to get off the ground.  However, sometimes you’ll find some creative ideas behind those publishers.  I took a look at Overlords of Infamy from Obscure Reference Games to see what kind of creativity they had behind it.