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Good habits can be powerful tools for board game designers to enhance their creativity, productivity, and overall success. By committing to start positive design habits, you can establish a foundation for consistent progress. Similarly, ending bad habits helps streamline the design process and ensures projects stay on track. Additionally, setting… Read more »

Watergate, much like the eponymous hotel, looks utterly innocuous from the outside. Arriving in a smaller-than-expected box, there’s a strong chance that I would have passed it by without giving it a second look if I’d seen it on the shelf of a game shop with its $35 price tag.… Read more »

Allplay has been churning out games almost as fast as our team can play ‘em, so when we had the chance to demo their upcoming word association game Alibis at PAX Unplugged 2024, we couldn’t pass up the chance to preview this new design, set for release in early 2025.… Read more »

I know I like combos…but I also know I like games that create tension right from the jump. Rajas of the Ganges, designed by Inka & Markus Brand and published in 2017, is a fantastic dice-driven worker placement game that ranks in the top 200 on BGG. It plays pretty… Read more »

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Back in 2020, Meeple Mountain’s founder and Editor-in-Chief, Andy Matthews, reviewed a preview copy of the cardboard version of Cascadia. Andy really liked this puzzly, hexagonal tile-laying game of animals and environments from the great northwest. It turns out he wasn’t alone in his opinion of the game. It soon… Read more »

Shuffle and Swing - Andrew Lynch When I read the manual for a new game, I can usually picture the experience that awaits me. I’ve played enough of them at this point that I can see the shape of the thing. Every now and then, though, I read a manual… Read more »

Check out part one of this High Frontier 4 All series! As I built a plan to tackle the science-based adventure game High Frontier 4 All and introduce it to my network, I decided for once that I would follow the advice of the game’s publisher to the letter. I… Read more »

The invention of cheese, much like the invention of boardgaming, predates recorded history. Just as it is evident that, given two bored people sharing the same space for long periods of time a game will emerge, so it seems to be true that any society, given milk, will inevitably produce… Read more »