Sometimes there are labels we grow into, ways of thinking about ourselves that we don’t really consider…others, we use to codify ourselves solely as kids, like the cliques we fit into at school, the drama geeks versus the jocks versus the nerds…or whether you were a horse girl, a wolf girl, a unicorn girl, or a dragon girl. Continue reading Review: Incubation
When something really unique and off the wall comes by, it has the ability to make people do a double-take and take notice. And that’s what Bubble Tea was for us. Amid heists and dinosaurs and sprawling story-telling games, suddenly we were looking at Aza Chen’s precious, vibrant artwork on the box of a game about boba: pearls of tapioca or chunks of coconut jelly, suspended in a sweet mix of tea and fruity flavour. Continue reading Review: Bubble Tea
We both work at a FLGS. Among the many hats I wear, I help the owner sift through the pre-orders that our distributors post up on a weekly basis. I add every one of them to a spreadsheet that we use to keep track of what we’ve pre-ordered from whom: how many copies, what date it was ordered, what the wholesale cost from the distributor … Continue reading Growing Pains
Board games have taken us to all kinds of locales over the years–from fictional and fantastical lands, to the very depths and edges of the universe, to every conceivable period from human history…But I don’t know that we’ve ever found ourselves in the dim, smoky underground of a gin palace in Victorian England, telling tall tales tinged with truth in exchange for just a few pennies more. Continue reading Review: The Old Hellfire Club
(Full disclosure: the copy of Chai we were provided was a prototypical review copy, and was not representative of the finished product, so while I’m happy to comment on the way the components worked together and the vision that Steeped Games has for their product, I can’t offer as concrete of a viewpoint of the design as I have on previously reviewed titles.) The relationship … Continue reading Review: Chai
When we found out that Stonemaier Games, publishers of high quality and well-known titles such as Viticulture, Euphoria, and Scythe, was coming out with a bird-themed board game, it immediately grabbed our attention. A medium-weight, euro-style game, all about birds? Yes, please! Continue reading Review: Wingspan
Friends, we have been promising you this review for almost a week, and we’re sorry for the delay. Between work schedules, temperatures in the negative 30s, a laptop charger that decided to suddenly give up the ghost, and spontaneous non-draft-saving browser shutdowns, it has been a journey trying to get this ready and posted. But no further delays! We have arrived, and I am so, … Continue reading Review: Guardian’s Call
There’s a lot of discussion out there on the Internet about the evolution of representation in movies, in books, in TV shows and stage plays and comic books and all other sorts of visual mediums… but here, we’re all about – obviously – board games, and those are evolving, too. Continue reading Diversity and Inclusivity in Board Game Design
Dice Wife Life 