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Analog Game Night - July 2010

Six of us got together for our monthly game night; thanks for hosting Jared! Our sixth was going to be a bit late so we tossed out a 5 player Dominion game using 5 randomly chosen base game cards (Cellar, Festival, Library, Remodel, Witch) and 5 randomly chosen Seaside Expansion cards (Caravan, Embargo, Explorer, Haven, & Island). I like ...

The Golden City

BGG classifies The Golden City, a Michael Schacht design, as an area control/area influence, auction/bidding, and route/network building game. I'd throw in set collection as well.

Three to four players attempt to build connected networks of wooden buildings across the four terrain types that lead to the Gold...

Origins 2010

Due to the pressures of life, I was only able to commit one day to Origins this year but I had a great time. I didn't spend a lot of time playing games but instead spent the time in the exhibit hall talking to people and looking at the current state of the gaming community. I've collected a few images in the gallery and I'll highlight some of them here but feel free to slideshow the rest at your leisure.

I arrived at th...

Michael Schacht

Over the years, Michael Schacht, a relatively well known German board game designer, and I have gotten to know each other fairly well via email and BGG "geekmail" and we're currently embarking on a business relationship for an earlier game of his for the iPhone platform. Too bad we live on opposite sides of the planet; I'd love to meet him in person. In the meantime, I've gotten a bit of air time on ...

Ingenious Reaches Major Milestone

With the approval of my partners at Sophisticated games and the additional web traffic they send my way, I'm glad to announce that my implementation of Ingenious has been played over 1 million times.

Here's to hoping the next million are just as fun!

Announcing Callisto

In cooperation with Sophisticated Games, I'm proud to announce the successful deployment of Callisto here on Marquand.net.

In this Reiner Knizia designed title, 2-4 players vie for placing all of their tiles on the board that morphs in shape according to the number of players.

This implementation of Callisto not only allows you to get a feel for the game before purchasi...

Analog Game Night - June 2010

June, 2010's installment of Analog Game Night has, sadly, come and gone. We originally had eight but a couple of the guys had some late-breaking family items to attend to so we ended up with six. We started out the night with a six-player game of Medici. I must say that Medici is starting to become my go-to game for a shorter, but meatier, 6-player game. It can be a bit mathy that I think some of the players in my group really l...

Dice Town

Got in games of Dice Town and Drive (three player) this weekend. Lisa and I had played Dice Town before but I finally got a chance to pull the shrink off my own copy and play it with my kids. Just so you know, the fun doesn't begin until your own child...

Cinnamon Rolls

Making cinnamon rolls for a brunch tomorrow.

Not 4 or 5...45.

I had a great 45th birthday. I normally work on my birthday but a couple of days before I decided to take the day off given that it was the start of a long weekend giving me four days of non-working bliss. This time of year is relatively joyous because my son's birthday is only three days later than mine and his birthday happens to coincide with my wedding anniversary. I can...