To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how best to classify Molly House, Wherlegig’s latest cardboard masterpiece. I feel like I’m describing the subgenre of my favorite drummer’s metal side project; it’s an interactive queer history exhibit/ artwork crossed with a snappy semi cooperative board
Some ideas can look good on paper or in an echo chamber and need a stranger’s perspective. For board games, fresh perspectives can be especially hard to secure. Each tweak to a design demands a new, complete playthrough. Each play needs a full table of players. Eventually, that table
2024 is shaping up to be a big year for Ravensburger and their partnership with Disney. On top of the latest Disney Villainous announcement and upcoming Lorcana Chapter 3, they have now announced a brand new ttrpg inspired cooperative board game featuring Disney and Pixar heroines. Read the press release
2024 is shaping up to be a big year for Ravensburger and their partnership with Disney. On top of the latest Disney Villainous announcement and upcoming Lorcana Chapter 3, they have now announced a brand new ttrpg inspired cooperative board game featuring Disney and Pixar heroines. Read the press release
To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how best to classify Molly House, Wherlegig’s latest cardboard masterpiece. I feel like I’m describing the subgenre of my favorite drummer’s metal side project; it’s an interactive queer history exhibit/ artwork crossed with a snappy semi cooperative board
Some ideas can look good on paper or in an echo chamber and need a stranger’s perspective. For board games, fresh perspectives can be especially hard to secure. Each tweak to a design demands a new, complete playthrough. Each play needs a full table of players. Eventually, that table
Ravensburger has announced their plans for Disney Villainous in 2024 and there are some exciting things coming. Sugar and Spite has an interesting mashup of a classic villain, Shere Khan, with a comparatively newer character, King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph, and is the first in a new format of “expandalone”
Wyrmspan, a new Stonemaier game from Apiary designer Connie Vogelmann, was announced today. Wyrmspan is a 1-5 player competitive tableau and engine building game inspired by Wingspan, though Wyrmspan will up the complexity. In Wyrmspan, players take on the role of an amateur dracologist in the town of Wyrmspan, which
Neotopia, published by Arcane Wonders, is a family weight game about creating patterns in an expanding city in order to score the most points by the end of the game. The rules couldn’t be easier and it evokes the feeling of family classics like Ticket to Ride. Sounds interesting?
Board games and history are two of my favorite things. For many years, I taught social sciences to middle and high school students and though I still work in education, I miss learning new facts and stories from history and imparting them to the next generation. When I get to
Post-apocalyptic ape pop culture has been around for awhile, namely in the Planet of the Apes franchise. I have fond memories of watching the original movies with my father when I was younger and asking why the lips weren’t moving and the newest iteration of the franchise has been
