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Solo Gaming 2025: The First Eight Months
I’ve been writing these solo gaming reports since March of 2020… yes, early on in the pandemic. This new era of well-designed automata and solo modes for multiplayer games, coupled with excellent new solo game designs, is actually quite heartening to … Continue reading
Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 22)
Before BGG started in Sep 2000, public discourse on games was mostly held on a reddit-type discussion board on Usenet called rec.games.board. For those who were around back then, this is the place where Scott Peterson had multiple colourful … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 20)
After the Gathering of Friends finishes, I fly over to Salt Lake City. I take a day off after flying in with a cold on no sleep, no food, ending up with fevers and chills. But the next day I … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 18)
One of the notable differences between normal gaming conventions and the Gathering is the number of high profile designers walking around and the relatively high proportion of prototypes on the tables be they works in progress, or close to final … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 11)
I played the new Athena expansion for Akropolis recently which I thought elevated the game. The original is fine but it felt too old-school for me – draft and play tiles in scoring combos on your tableau, repeat X times. … Continue reading
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Alison Brennan: Game Snapshots – 2025 (Part 25)
I’ve never played Molly House. I don’t know what it purports to represent but I have a perception that it provides visibility on historical LGBT relationships and therefore the implication is that the game’s existence promotes normalcy of, and acceptance … Continue reading →
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