New Experience Workshop is a small team, consisting of two sisters, but that doesn’t stop it from production or experimentation. Having successfully Kickstarted Showdown, a samurai themed competitive cardgame, and Shootout, a tense western, this Kansas-based company has proven that a tabletop company can accomplish a great deal if
Academy Games’ focus has always been on using games to explore history, in all its visceral, uncomfortable truths. While many of its products have revolved around the lesser known or the non-controversial, such as the Viking invasion of England, its examination of the abolition movement through Freedom: the Underground Railroad
Dinosaurs have an amount of mystery to them, as no living human being has seen one for real. Jurassic Park made us wonder what it would be like if they were still alive today and had a zoo full of them. While the movie had an ominous plot, it’s
Dinosaurs have an amount of mystery to them, as no living human being has seen one for real. Jurassic Park made us wonder what it would be like if they were still alive today and had a zoo full of them. While the movie had an ominous plot, it’s
New Experience Workshop is a small team, consisting of two sisters, but that doesn’t stop it from production or experimentation. Having successfully Kickstarted Showdown, a samurai themed competitive cardgame, and Shootout, a tense western, this Kansas-based company has proven that a tabletop company can accomplish a great deal if
Academy Games’ focus has always been on using games to explore history, in all its visceral, uncomfortable truths. While many of its products have revolved around the lesser known or the non-controversial, such as the Viking invasion of England, its examination of the abolition movement through Freedom: the Underground Railroad
Destiny Aurora is an ambitious product, but one I am excited to see in its final form. This board game adaptation of the ongoing book series will also launch alongside of a series of comics in the same universe.
Destiny Aurora sets itself in the midst of a fierce interstellar
Babageek is a fresh company with a story-based game which works to guide children through the basics of roleplay. Robit Riddle, featuring the artist behind Mice and Mystics, will feature choose your own adventure stories influenced by skill challenges and cooperative gameplay to engage younger audiences and help cultivate creative
At Origins a publisher wanted to make sure that I checked out a game that he was working on with a new designing group. I was able to check it out and was impressed by it. Basically you played two comic book characters fighting against each other by rolling dice.
In the 8th century, Vikings from Scandinavia first raided the coast of the British Isles. Over the next century, raids morphed into invasions, and the native Anglo-Saxons found themselves in a struggle to save their homeland. By 878, the Vikings had pushed the Saxons to the brink. It was then
On the morning of November 1, 1755, a massive earthquake shook Lisbon to its core. The quake brought its own destruction, and the subsequent fires and tsunami left the great Portuguese capital in ruins. Immediately, the king and prime minister set to rebuild the city. They recommended the boldest of
