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Developer Diary: The Game Makers
The Hook Summer 2023 I’ve known Ben Rosset for almost 10 years now, both as the designer of Between 2 Cities, and also as an employee of Panda Game Manufacturing. Ben has subbed in for our main contact at Panda … Continue reading
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The Fundamental Flaw with The Traitors
Author’s note: Yeah, this is about a TV show, not a game. But it’s a TV show that’s clearly based on a game, and I’ve seen a ton of social media posts about how this is Ultimate Werewolf the TV … Continue reading
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Werewords and Oink
Recently, there’s been a bit of hubbub about a few Tweets from Oink games, claiming that I copied Insider with Werewords after they supposedly turned down a request to license the game from them: This article is to clarify what … Continue reading
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Bagging Monthly #3: Bagging on the Road
When I go to gaming get togethers, the one question I’m consistently asked tends to be “How tall are you?” to which I say something particularly clever, and then change the subject to boardgame bagging. After all, spreading the love … Continue reading
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Bagging Monthly #2: Bag Size Consistency
Welcome back to the only regular Opinionated Gamer column that provides an in-depth look at boardgame storage practices, techniques and guidelines. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe the other OG columnists didn’t all clamor to write this first, … Continue reading
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Bagging Monthly #1: Bag Quality
Years ago, our game group (the infamous California FNVP’s) used to joke a lot about proper bagging of games, from bag quality to how to properly organize game bits within games. Someone (might have been me, not sure anymore) mentioned … Continue reading
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