Tag: Wingspan

Friday Night Shots – Convention Game Behaviour

Welcome back for another week! I’ve been keeping the seat warm for you, since it’s starting to get a little colder out. Yes, I’ve added heaters! Hasn’t brought in anymore customers, though, which is too bad. Maybe I shouldn’t have started testing these heated… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Convention Game Behaviour”

Friday Night Shots – Player Interaction

Good evening! Welcome back for another week. I’m so happy you could join me. Truth to tell, it gets a little lonely behind the bar in this place, even on a Friday night. Maybe I should actually unlock the doors so people could come… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Player Interaction”

Dire Wolf Digital Going App Crazy With Announcements

(Edit: 10/5/23) – Finally, the last design diary! I think. Nope, there are 1-2 more coming. Paul Dennen reveals how Contracts work and it looks like a major boost to the beginning of the game, at least in trying to get money. You can… Continue Reading “Dire Wolf Digital Going App Crazy With Announcements”

Earth – Card Game Review

(I put “card game” review in the title so you don’t think it’s a review of the planet we live on, or maybe a good gardening company) Nature seems to be the in thing for games right now. If I had a penny for… Continue Reading “Earth – Card Game Review”

OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective

OrcaCon is a convention held in Bellevue, Washington in January every year. Sadly, I wasn’t able to go last year and the two years before that…well, something happened. I’m not really sure what. I went to my first OrcaCon in January 2020 and then… Continue Reading “OrcaCon 2023 Retrospective”

Blog in Review – 2022

It’s the new year and welcome to 2023! As has been my tradition for the past 3 years, here is my annual post about the year that was, 2022 in this case. Unlike last year, where I talked about how 2021 really should be… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2022”

Quilts & Cats of Calico from Monster Couch Coming to Digital

Exciting news in the digital boardgaming world came yesterday from Monster Couch Games, the developer of the wonderful Wingspan app. Quilts & Cats of Calico (which is basically the board game Calico from Flatout Games and AEG), which is a tile-laying game where you… Continue Reading “Quilts & Cats of Calico from Monster Couch Coming to Digital”

Wingspan: Oceania Expansion Coming to Digital

(Edit: 11/7/23) – A release date has been announced! December 12 at 10:00 am PST! It’s nice when you look at your email inbox and find some welcome news instead of the usual spam and people bothering you about things you don’t care about.… Continue Reading “Wingspan: Oceania Expansion Coming to Digital”

App Expansion Review – Wingspan: European Expansion

The Wingspan app published by Monster Couch Games has been a wonderful app since it came out in October 2020. Online play oddities aside, the game has very few bugs that I’m aware of and it’s a brilliant digital adaptation of the boardgame designed… Continue Reading “App Expansion Review – Wingspan: European Expansion”

Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (15-11)

It’s another week so it’s time for another edition of the Top 25 Games Played (by me) of All Time – 2022 edition! We’ve gone through ten of them so far and so far they have been very cool games! I don’t really care… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (15-11)”