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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Downdraft Skiing

At this week’s meeting, I mentioned this dexterity game that I made for a BGDF designer challenge about two years ago, and I thought I repost it. I don’t remember why I brought it up, but it did come in second place and I think it’s pretty good. It’s really easy to make (household stuff), [...]

Marc’s BGG.Con report, part one

Okay, here’s the full rundown on what I did at BGG.Con 2007, also cross-posted from my blog. The short version: played a lot of games, promoted and sold Honeypot a bunch, and generally had a blast with a whole bunch of fine folks. And now, buckle up – here comes the long version.
Thursday 11/15/2007
I woke [...]

Drey’s take on BGG.con

This is cross-posted from my blog:
I was in Dallas this past Thursday through Sunday for BoardGameGeek.con, a fantastic board gaming convention. It was a smaller, more laid back type of con than your GenCon or ComicCon, with perhaps only 700 attendees.
I cajoled Cory into going at the very last minute, so he, Nukes, Majcher and [...]

A Nice Little Meeting

Last night Ian and Marc showed up at my place, and we did a bit of playing and a lot of design talking. Here are some of the highlights:
Lab Work 
I asked if we could try out Monkey Lab with some suggested rules. There were some clever plays, and a few evil ones.  In the end, [...]

Meeting Preview

Tuesday night is here again.  Here are some things we may see at our meeting:
Ian has a new game out called Taktika. It is a disc flicking war game that is a lot of fun. The last I heard, he was polishing up the last bit of box art and rules wordings. The game is [...]