In our series of interviews of industry personalities Luke Crane was the natural next installment. Luke is the head of games at Kickstarter, and a very visible evangelist of what allows indie publishers to create games not otherwise possible. Kickstarter is an undeniable force for creativity in the tabletop space, with board games being a huge […]
Like we mentioned in our previous post, Spiel ’17 was busy busy busy, but we didn’t exactly go on holidays after the fair – we still had thousands of Kickstarter rewards and other orders to ship. Fortunately all of that is behind us now and first backers have already received their games! Here are some […]
The survivors of Spiel ’17 report for duty! Looks like once more we made it through the Most Amazing Event of the Year a.k.a. the SPIEL fair in Essen, Germany, and are now going to tell you all about it! It was definitely full of busy times and sometimes stressful times, but we made it […]
Isn’t it great when you discover an amazing, totally your kind of game AND it also just looks so beautiful? Well, we sure think so. Sometimes you might spend half a game talking about its gorgeous art, clever graphic design and fun game components and almost (but just almost) forget about the actual gameplay. But […]
Alexandria funded on Kickstarter! Millennia of knowledge are at risk in the Great Library of Alexandria! Fortunately numerous eager backers of Alexandria on Kickstarter are helping LudiCreations save as many items as possible before all that remains is ashes. Created to store the world’s knowledge, the library’s scribes would copy every book found on every […]
We have had quite the busy season on Kickstarter so far, and we still have a little while more to go! Here are some updates that our beloved backers have received recently – there’s a bit about Crisis and a lot about Diesel Demolition Derby, our ongoing campaign! The World of Crisis Greetings, LudiCrats! It’s […]
Diesel Demolition Derby on Kickstarter (and funded!) Dieselpunk robots. Those two words are usually enough to get the attention of most people, but Diesel Demolition Derby is much more than that. Even though it is a small game that takes 30 minutes to play, it is still a challenge to master. You already know how […]
By Todd Sanders Warning: May contain minor spoilers about Gone Girl In film, board games are still used more for product placement rather than as an active part of a scene (an exception being Jumanji where the game was the main dramatic plot device). A recent, positive example, was Gone Girl which came out in […]
(Hier klicken für die deutsche Version) This year LudiCreations will be exhibiting again for the 5th time in the board game fair SPIEL in Essen, Germany. And like every year since we started, we have amazing volunteers willing to help us out by explaining our games to the trade visitors and fellow board game geeks. […]
By Todd Sanders For board games on popular TV shows let’s focus on two culturally significant programs – The Big Bang Theory and The Simpsons – each of which take a different tack in how they approach the presentation of board games. In this article I will first focus on The Big Bang Theory, and […]