In the 80s, we were told Dungeons & Dragons would make us all satanists. In the 90s, first person shooters and Mortal Kombat were supposed to make us all murderers. Games have joined the long and...
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Learn how to play one of board gaming’s all-time greats: Puerto Rico. Then, go deep with a tips and strategy session from Rym and Scott, hosts of the Geeknights podcast. Stick around to play a full...
Presented by Geeknights at PAX East 2018! 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...
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...