Whether you are new to gaming or have been gaming for ages, you’ve probably heard of the Spiel des Jahres Award. It is awarded to games of “outstanding quality” that promote gaming as a valuable family pastime and appeal to a large audience. There are two other awards, the Kinderpsiel (for children’s games) and the Kennerspiel […]
The summer months are upon us, and it has the LudiCrew playing a variety of games. Some members are not only taking games on holiday but using their games to plan their holiday as well! Babbis This month found me quite skeptical. Should I try something funny or should I go with something mind-boggling! Thus I found […]
There’s an old Irish proverb: May your comics be funny and your games good. OK. Maybe that’s not old, Irish, or proverbic, but there is a couple in Ireland that marries comics and games better than I just did. They’re Colin O’Mahoney and Aileen Cudmore, the brains and hands behind the mostly board-game-based comic Tiny Wooden Pieces that […]
Convention season has started again in the United States. To be fair, I’m not sure that it ever ends here as it always seems like there is a convention of some size somewhere at all times. I just got back from Geekway, which is a little shindig in St. Louis, Missouri. Inspired by the amazing […]
When I was a child, my mother watched a lot of spy shows from her formative years. Her favorite was without a doubt The Avengers. It was this show (and shows like it) that shaped my vision of spies: classy British people who spoke in riddles. As a result, I need my spies to be witty and full […]
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 […]