These may not be the top 40 board games ever designed, nor is it the top 40 influential or otherwise important games. If you aspire to really understand tabletop, or if you have visions of designing...
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Balancing games is deceptively difficult. Even worse, there are subtle reasons why even if a game is perfectly, mathematically, demonstrably balanced, players will likely have even LESS fun. From...
Go deep on the strategy of Carcassonne with a lecture from Rym and Scott, hosts of the Geeknights podcast. Then stick around for a special single-elimination Carcassonne tournament and put those tips...
Presented at PAX West 2017, this panel on rage quitting is about how gamers quit, why they quit, and what quitting really means in game design. The table gets flipped. The healer sits down in spawn...
Ostensibly, you play games to win. (Assuming we're talking about competitive games: you're not playing to "win" Dungeons & Dragons… are you?) But are really? Shouldn't you be winning a lot more...
Rage-quit isn't the only form of quitting. People stop playing games for a huge range of reasons. They get bored, they get frustrated, they get distracted, they sometimes literally just forget. It...