A Gaming Life
Posted on February 26, 2021 by whovian223
A nice surprise in my email a couple of days ago came from Bezier Games. After over a year of having just the Kickstarter “Collector’s Edition”, Bezier Games has now announced that a 2nd Edition of its classic game, Suburbia will be coming to… Continue Reading “Suburbia 2nd Edition coming from Bezier Games in March”
Category: Board Games, NewsTags: Bezier Games, Suburbia, Suburbia - 2nd Edition, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on November 12, 2020 by whovian223
Welcome to this week’s edition of BGG’s Top 200 games! The series where I look at those games in the BGG rankings from #200-101, ten games at a time. Two weeks in a row? That’s gotta be a record. Things are actually looking pretty… Continue Reading “Boardgame Geek Top 200 – Play or Played – #140 – 131”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Area Control, Bezier Games, Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Card Games, Commands & Colors: Ancients, Cosmic Encounter, Days of Wonder, Deduction, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dice-rolling, Fantasy Flight Games, GMT Games, Hansa Teutonica, Ignacy Trzewiczek, Jack Kittredge, Jaipur, Jakub Łapot, Kevin Wilson, Lookout Games, Lunch Time Games, Memoir '44, Nate French, Ora et Labora, Peter Olotka, Portal Games, Przemysław Rymer, Richard Borg, Roll and Write Games, Sebastien Pauchon, Space Cowboys, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, That's Pretty Clever, The Lord of the Rings: the Card Game, Tile-Laying Games, Uwe Rosenberg, Wargames, Wolfgang Warsch, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 22, 2019 by whovian223
It’s been almost three years in the making, but I almost hit 300 games played since I started recording plays and I thought it would be a great idea to give you what my top 25 games played are. Thanks to Pub Meeple for… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time (25-21)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Andreas Steding, Bezier Games, Card Games, Castles of Burgundy, Diamonds, Gugong, Merchant of Venus, Mike Fitzgerald, Pick Up & Deliver, Ravensburger, Richard Hamblen, Stefan Feld, Stronghold Games, Suburbia, Tasty Minstrel Grames, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 14, 2019 by whovian223
Last week, I announced (along with probably every boardgame news and blog outlet out there, but I like to think I broke the story) (Editor – Indulge him. It can only help) that the Suburbia – Collector’s Edition was coming to Kickstarter. Today’s the day! The Collector’s Edition,… Continue Reading “Suburbia – Collector’s Edition Now Live on Kickstarter”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Bezier Games, Collectors Edition, kickstarter, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on January 7, 2019 by whovian223
Suburbia was one of my first board game purchases when I came back to the hobby many years ago. It’s still one of my favourite games. Designed by Ted Alspach, this is a tile-laying game where each player is trying to build the most… Continue Reading “Suburbia Collectors Edition Coming to Kickstarter on January 14”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Bezier Games, Collectors Edition, kickstarter, Suburbia, Ted Alspach, Tile-Laying Games
Posted on February 6, 2018 by whovian223
Ted Alspach is one of my favourite game designers out there. His first design that I fell in love with was Suburbia, with it’s interesting tile-laying mechanic where you have to attention to what others are building in their suburb as well. Little did I… Continue Reading “Q & A – Ted Alspach”
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