Author: Anthony
Anthony
Anthony cofounded Board Gamers Anonymous in 2013 and has been on (almost) every episode. Today, he lives in Philadelphia with his family and teaches first year writing at Thomas Jefferson University.
This week Chris covers the following Kickstarter projects: AVGhost: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/804652091/avghost-a-board-game-played-in-the-dark?ref=nav_search Clash! Dawn of Steam the Card Game: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/madapegames/clash-dawn-of-steam-the-card-game Antidote: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1839615594/antidote-a-game-of-deduction-deception-and-mortali?ref=users Multi-Vs: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/multi-vs/multi-vs-crossover-anime-card-game?ref=users Make sure to check out www.boardgamersanonymous.com/ for more information about Kickstarter projects.
In honor of the World Cup, Anthony, Chris, and Drew get together and pit 32 of the best fantasy tabletop games in the hobby against each other in 8 groups of four games. We vote for the winners and discuss which games are going to be the most fantasy of fantasy games. Here is a rundown of our discussion and how we chose from each of these groups: The Groups We seeded each of 8 groups below based on a single top seed for each and three additional games, based on rankings from BGG.com. Group A Mage Knight Board Game…
(Humor Us is a weekly series, published every Friday.) Make sure to thank Matt M. Casey of the Clever Move blog for pointing this one out. Or you may end up blaming him… Glamour magazine must still be ticked at Cosmopolitan for stealing its mojo a few decades back. Ever since then, their writers have been competing with Cosmo in penning the most banal sex columns possible. Along comes one Gena Kaufman – in whose bio you’ll actually find the phrase “when your love life hands you lemons…” – with an article entitled “How to Make Playing Board Games Sexier.”…
Daniel interviews Brandon Rausch about Dubious Alliance and the process of launching a game on Kickstarter, along with how he plans to continue growing the game in the future. Check out Kicking the Habit on www.boardgamersanonymous.com/ and listen to the BGA Podcast on iTunes for more about Kickstarter and other hot games from Chris, Daniel, Anthony, and Drew.
Chris talks about some of the hottest games on Kickstarter this week including Maha Yohda, Rive, God’s Gambit and Ice Age. Learn more about what games to back and for which ones you should kick back and wait. Check out Kicking the Habit on www.boardgamersanonymous.com/ and listen to the BGA Podcast on iTunes for more about Kickstarter and other hot games from Chris, Daniel, Anthony, and Drew.
The guys get together this week and look at four admittedly light games and then one big heavy, emotionally powerful co-op game in Freedom: The Underground Railroad. We’ll be discussing a number of important game related goings on, including the upcoming convention season as well as our most recent Kicking the Habit segment. Then we’ll dive into a quick review of Knuckle Sammich, High Tail It, and Turkey My Mayonnaise. At the Table Lots of gaming to discuss this week with a handful of discussions about recent games hitting the table. To start, the team discusses Knuckle Sammich, a game…
Hello there, rhetorical reader. As you know, we’ve spun off our Kicking the Habit segment into its own series of articles, previews, and even a podcast all its own. Since things change all the time in the Kickstarter world, we’re going to post weekly reviews on Saturdays to keep you in the loop. Take a look at what we’ve been talking about, and keep your eyes open for our Kicking the Habit podcast. Campaigns of the Week First up, lets take a look at how our campaigns of the week have been doing. Maha Yodha This strategy card game based on ancient…
Note: The product reviewed is part of an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, and may be incomplete. The project may change before it hits the market, and so this review should not be taken as a comment on the quality of any complete products. We will do our best to update this review to reflect changes in the product, but we may lag behind. Introduction Today, we are going to take a closer look at Rive, a hex-based strategy game that was featured as one of our campaigns of the week this Tuesday. Rive is a strategy game where players control one of the…
Note: The products shown here are prototypes. Poses, anatomy, and other aspects of the miniatures may change. Consult ADW’s campaign page for the most recent news regarding this campaign. I gave a prelaunch preview of ADW Games’s promising miniatures campaign not long ago, but the campaign has changed enough that I think it is worth revisiting. Since launch, ADW has been working diligently to improve their campaign, and it shows. Let’s look at some of the biggest improvements that ADW has made to their campaign. Switch to Hand-Sculpting Probably the single most significant change has been the decision to hand-sculpt the…
Maybe the most shocking thing about Kappa Publishing suspending Games Magazine is the fact that no one the tabletop gaming community seems to know about it. It’s like the old adage, If a journalist reports from a forest, and no one is listening, is it even news? Not for the first time, the industry’s leading independent periodical has been forced to suspend publication due to lackluster circulation and revenues. And this time, no one is mourning. Kappa Publishing, having built their empire on puzzles, will likely be reformatting the magazine for 2015, with even more of an emphasis on the…