Tag: John D Clair
Posted on March 26, 2021
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Alderac Entertainment Group really needs to work at their hype machine. One of my favourite new games in 2020 was Ecos: First Continent, which is a world-building game where players are trying to build a world and get points by putting terrain tiles out… Continue Reading “Ecos: New horizons Out Today!”
Posted on January 11, 2021
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This last weekend was the virtual edition of OrcaCon. Since I was spending the weekend doing things with my wife, I didn’t take part, but seeing the tweets and Discord messages from them just brought it all to mind. If it wasn’t for this… Continue Reading “Stories from Boardgame Cons”
Category: Board Games, conventions, PersonalTags: AEG, Christian Kang, Dead Reckoning, Dice Tower West, Dragonflight, Fantastic Factories, John D Clair, Meeple Overboard, More Games Please, OrcaCon, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Paula Deming, SHUX, Suzanne Sheldon, Thing 12 Games
Posted on July 7, 2020
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A really quick post today because it’s a busy day. Dead Reckoning, the pirate exploration and fighting game designed by John D. Clair with art by Ian O’Toole and published by Alderac Entertainment Group, is now on Kickstarter! I got to play this at… Continue Reading “Dead Reckoning from AEG now on Kickstarter”
Posted on May 13, 2020
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Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) just announced that the new card-crafting pirate game designed by John D. Clair is coming to Kickstarter this Summer. I played this game at Dice Tower West in February and really loved it. I love the card-crafting genre anyway (though… Continue Reading “Dead Reckoning from AEG coming to Kickstarter This Summer”
Posted on March 10, 2020
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We’re a little late with the “New to Me Games” post for February, but there is definitely a good reason. Last week was the Cult of the New to Me fundraising car wash! Unfortunately, the flyers I sent out and put up had the… Continue Reading “New to Me – February 2020”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: AEG, Area Control, Barrage, Brander Roullett, Card Drafting, Card Games, Card-Crafting Games, Cranio Creations, Dead Reckoning, Deckbuilders, Dice of Crowns, Dice-rolling, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Expansions, Football Highlights 2052, Frank West, Fryx Games, Gary Arant, Ian O'Toole, Jacob Fryxelius, John D Clair, Justin Gary, Lunch Time Games, Mike Fitzgerald, On Mars, Sean Epperson, Shards of Infinity, Simone Luciani, Stoneblade, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars, Terraforming Mars: Turmoil, The City of Games, The Isle of Cats, Thing 12 Games, Tile-Laying Games, Tommaso Battista, Ultra Pro, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on March 5, 2020
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John D. Clair is one of my favourite designers, and I find the “card-crafting” game mechanic to be very neat. Space Base is #16 in my best games played of all time list and its position is well-deserved (even though it’s not a card-crafting… Continue Reading “Preview – Dead Reckoning”
Posted on February 10, 2020
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Whew! I’m finally awake again after finishing last week’s Part 1 of my “New to Me Games – January” post. That really took a lot out of me. It’s been a week and I’m just now recovering! Excuse me while I hop on my… Continue Reading “New to Me – January 2020 (Part 2)”
Category: Board Games, New to MeTags: AEG, Artipia Games, At the Gates of Loyang, Bag Building, Bluffing, Card Drafting, Clank in Space: Cyber Station 11, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Druid City Games, Ecos: First Continent, Evan Lorentz, Farming, Fields of Green, Haakon Gaarder, John D Clair, Party Games, Renegade Games Studios, Roll and Write, Scott Caputo, Set Collection Games, Sinister Fish Games, Sorcerer City, Stronghold Games, Tableau-building, Tasty Minstrel Grames, That's Pretty Clever, Tile-Laying Games, Tim McKnight, Uwe Rosenberg, Vangelis Bagiartakis, Villagers, Wolfgang Warsch
Posted on September 9, 2019
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It’s my birthday! Yes, I’m turning the big 49 today, and in celebration, I’m going to tell you the 49 games I’m really anticipating over the next few months. Ok, no. I’m not that much of a masochist. Instead, the number 4 is part… Continue Reading “Birthday Post – 4 Games I’m Looking Forward To”
Category: Board Games, Opinion, PersonalTags: Abomination: The Heir of Frankenstein, AEG, Capstone Games, Card-Driven Game, Dan Blanchett, Ecos: First Continent, John D Clair, Lunch Time Games, Matthias Cramer, Mike Elliott, Plaid Hat Games, Renegade Games Studios, Tableau-building, Terror Below, Tile-Laying Games, Watergate, Worker Placement Games
Posted on August 15, 2019
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Previously on this blog, you may remember that I have mentioned Nomad Games‘ app version of the classic John D. Clair card-crafting title Mystic Vale. The tabletop game is published by Alderac Entertainment Group. I sung its praises as a great app, polished and well-done… Continue Reading “Mystic Vale App Gets Stormy With Mana Storm Expansion”
Category: Apps, Board Games, First Impressions, NewsTags: AEG, Android, Expansions, ios, John D Clair, Mystic Vale, Mystic Vale: Mana Storm, Nomad Games, Steam
Posted on March 27, 2019
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(Edit: This is one of my Top 25 Games Played of all Time, as of February 2019 anyway. Check out the other games as well!) When I watch science fiction films, with spaceships dashing hither and yon (I think yon is about 100 parsecs… Continue Reading “Review – Space Base”
