In case you don’t know what constitutes a press your luck game, here’s the BoardGameGeek glossary definition: “a game where players can repeatedly choose to perform a random event on their turn. They temporarily collect points each time, but usually receive nothing on the turn if an unfavorable event happens. They must voluntarily end their turn […]
Last month was a diverse moth of game playing goodness here at LudiCreations. These are the games people were playing. David T. I taught my non-gamer flatmates and assorted friends Glory To Rome, so that has been hitting the table surprisingly often. The big-game-hit of the month was clearly Hyperborea. It’s a euro-style deckbuilder (well, […]
Place a guy. Do a thing. That’s all there is to worker placement games, right? Well, according to the BoardGameGeek glossary, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Worker placement is “a term used to describe the game mechanic which involves a ‘token-based, turn-limited, locking action selection menu’. Players, in turn order, place tokens (aka […]
GeekDad.com, whose tagline is “Raising Geek Generation 2.0”, is a website where self-proclaimed geeky parents write about their geeky interests as they relate to the raising of their hopefully geeky children. The blog is routinely seen as a beacon of family-friendly geeky goodness. From making it on Time’s “Best Blogs of the Internet” list to winning a Webby for the […]
When I think sci-fi, I tend to think space things along with wibbly wobbly time wimey stuff. I wasn’t entirely sure if or how this definition translated to board games, so I decided to check the BGG definition: “Science Fiction games often have themes relating to imagined possibilities in the sciences. Such games need not be […]
Not only do we make games here at LudiCreations, we also manage to play them as well. Here’s what’s we’re playing: David T. spends most of his time roping people into testing [redacted] or its upcoming little brother, he is gushing over Roll for the Galaxy, which is he claims might be even better than […]
Rob Merickel is no stranger to the LudiCreations team. Rob is the Senior Director of Business Development for Passport Game Studios. Passport, of course, joined LudiCreations as a co-publisher of [redacted] and will be joining in the print run for Pocket Imperium. In his role as Senior Director of Business Development, Rob works with designers […]
Here at LudiCreations we’ve been preparing for a big 2015. There are several games we plan to publish this year: Pocket Imperium by David Mortimer; and …and then we held hands. by David Chircop & Yannick Massa. Other upcoming LudiCreations games include: KUNE v LAKIA: A Chronicle Of A Royal Lapine Divorce Foretold, Operation Kindergarten, and [microfilms]. In addition, […]
When I first ventured into the world of board game media as a consumer, I stumbled upon this guy named rahdo who ran through board games. I was immediately drawn to his videos. He rambled as he explained the rules. He played against his imaginary wife, Jen. Jen isn’t actually imaginary, you see. She exists. […]