Tag: The Pursuit of Happiness
Posted on November 11, 2026
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One of my favourite game convention experiences is also my most recent. I have only been going to Bottoscon regularly since 2022 (I did a one-day pass in 2019 and then COVID hit). A couple of the Bellevue, Washington conventions I had been going… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2026 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 3 Chapters, Action Selection, Alderac, Amigo Spiel, Artipia Games, Asmadi Games, Bezier Games, Bottoscon, Can't Stop, Card Games, Card Shedding, Civilization Building, Civolution, Combat Commander: Europe, Cooperative Games, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Deep Print Games, Devir, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Emperor S4, Flash Point, Flash Point: Tragic Events, Flip 7, Fowers Games, GMT Games, Indie Boards & Cards, Innovation, Ivanhoe, Lunch Time Games, Mighty Boards, Osprey Games, Paperback, Prodigals Club, Push Your Luck Games, Rebirth, Rock Hard 1977, Rock Hard 1977: Ear Candy, Semi-cooperative Games, Stonemaier Games, Sumidagawa Red Town, The King is Dead, The Op, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Walking in Kamogawa, Wargames, Wingspan Pocket, Worker Placement Games, Xylotar
Posted on December 1, 2025
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I knew November would be much better than October for my gaming, because there’s a really nice 4-day convention in November. I didn’t expect that it would be this much better, though! In November, I managed to play 36 games a total of 57… Continue Reading “November 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Deckbuilders, Doomlings, Dune Imperium, Ecos: First Continent, Final Girl, Galactic Cruise, Hansa Teutonica, Inventors of the South Tigris, Inventors of the South Tigris - Era of Experts, Lunch Time Games, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, SETI, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Wargames, Worker Placement Games, Z-Man Games
Posted on November 11, 2025
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the 19th annual Bottoscon convention at the Inn at the Quay in New Westminster, Canada. We’re almost at 20! The con is run by Rob Bottos, a great guy who has taken to heart what many of us Canadians have… Continue Reading “Bottoscon 2025 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 6 Nimmt!, Action Selection, Alderac, AllPlay, Aporta Games, Artipia Games, Bad Company, Bottoscon, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Cascadia, CMON, CMYK, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Devir, Diamonds, Dice-rolling, Dire Wolf Digital, Dune Imperium, Eagle-Gryphon Games, Ecos: First Continent, Flatout Games, Galactic Cruise, Gizmos, GMT Games, I'm Out, Ivanhoe, Jackie Fox, Kinson Key Games, Kosmos, Lisboa, Lunch Time Games, Magical Athlete, Oddland, Origin Story, Prodigals Club, Rock Hard 1977, Roll and Move, Schadenfreude, Sea Salt & Paper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Pepper, Sea Salt & Paper - Extra Salt, SETI, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Studio Turbine, The Gang, The Pursuit of Happiness, Tile-Laying Games, Trick-taking games, Vital Lacerda, Worker Placement Games
Posted on December 1, 2022
by whovian223
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November was a good month of gaming, even with missing my final week’s game day and it being harder to get games in at work. I’ll of course talk about the “new to me” games in this month’s post (probably next week) but I… Continue Reading “November Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: BG Stats, Bottoscon, Combat Commander: Europe, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Raiders of the North Sea, Terraforming Mars, The Pursuit of Happiness, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Gates of Gold, Viscounts of the West Kingdom: Keeper of Keys
Posted on November 13, 2020
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I’ve really enjoyed my couple of plays of The Pursuit of Happiness, published by Artipia Games. Designed by Adrian Abela and David Chircop, with gorgeous and whimsical art by Panayiotis Lyris, the game was published in 2015 but I missed it on Kickstarter. This is… Continue Reading “The Pursuit of Happiness – Big Box by Artipia Games on Kickstarter”
Category: Board Games, crowdfunding, NewsTags: Adrian Abela, Artipia Games, David Chircop, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Pursuit of Happiness: Big Box, The Pursuit of Happiness: Community, The Pursuit of Happiness: Experiences, The Pursuit of Happiness: Nostalgia, Worker Placement Games
Posted on April 1, 2019
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Ah, the smell of new games being opened. The sound of people sitting at a table, chatting. Or perhaps one person talking, teaching others how to play the game that’s sitting in front of them. I had that experience this past weekend at the… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention – Vancouver”
Category: conventionsTags: Abracada...What?, Azul, Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig, Camel Up, Can't Stop, Clank in Space, Dice Forge, Fugitive, Space Base, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Terraforming Mars, The Pursuit of Happiness, Valeria: Card Kingdoms
Posted on February 18, 2019
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Just a quick news post to start the week (it’s Family Day up here in most of Canada, so we’re all at home freezing our bits off instead of at work freezing our bits off). Last year, I discovered the brilliantly fun game The… Continue Reading “Pursuit of Happiness expansion – Experiences”
Posted on March 22, 2017
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This is the story of how I recently backed, and am greatly looking forward to, the new expansion for the game The Pursuit of Happiness. Called Community, it has a pledge level that allows you to get the base game as well. I’m not… Continue Reading “Kickstarter – The Pursuit of Happiness: Community”