Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…
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The contributors for this list were Byron Campbell, tabletop games editor at Entropy; Chris Holly, writer of the gobsmacking Playing Detective series; and Benjamin Tiemann, Byron’s regular gaming companion. Best…
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The Civilized Guide to Tabletop Gaming by Teri Litorco Adams Media, 2016 Amazon | Adams Media I’ll be frank: for the first few sections, I didn’t much care for Teri Litorco’s Civilized…
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This game design article comes from Brad Lawrence, co-designer and -publisher of Victoriana, the cooperative board game of intrigue and investigation in the world of Victorian literature. Play-us Ex Machina My design…
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Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. Somebody has created…
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2015 was a big year for the board game hobby. Games like XCOM: The Board Game brought a renewed focus on integrating games with technology, while titles such as Pandemic Legacy or T.I.M.E Stories…
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The final category of the Tabletop Games Curriculum, science, is also a sort of catch-all in the sense that “science,” in one of its many branches, can represent any topic…
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As most board games’ choice of theme is inevitably historical, the mechanisms driving these games can’t escape being mathematical. If the game features any form of scoring, I can guarantee…
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Classic word-building games like Scrabble and Boggle might seem like they offer great educational value, but they actually do little to enhance one’s vocabulary beyond a certain highly specified world pool. Any Scrabble…
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If we accept “history” as the sum of human achievement up to the present day, then this is the most widely represented subject in analog gaming. In the genre of…
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Introduction With the widespread access to smartphones, tablets and the Internet, our ways of interacting with the world have changed, and learning styles have changed alongside that. Today’s children and young…
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Being such a hypercompetitive jerk that I’ve driven most of my friends away, I’ve starting playing games mostly on Board Game Arena (BGA), an online gaming site where I’ve logged…
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