Architects of the West Kingdom
This is an unusual worker placement game where you get to round your opponents’ workers up and send them to prison.
Carcassonne Maps: Great Britain
Carcassonne Maps turns a game well-known for not having a board back to a game which has a board. However it turns out to be an interesting play experience.
Ticket to Ride: Nederland
When Ticket to Ride visits the Netherlands, the stakes are high.
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There a reason why the best advice from veteran game designers to aspiring game designers is DON’T DO IT. So I need to reflect on why I’m still doing this to myself.
Santa Maria
Once in a while you get surprised by games you expect to be pedestrian. Santa Maria is one such game for me. I was mind-blown by how much I enjoyed it.
Cili Padi Games has landed in Sabah
Bringing my games back to my hometown – Kota Kinabalu, Sabah!
boardgaming in photos: Through the Ages, Sabah Honeymoon
Continuing my game design projects…
Daybreak
Daybreak (aka e-Mission) is the 2024 Kennerspiel des Jahres winner. It is a cooperative game about saving the world from carbon emissions going out of control.
Caper
Visit Paris, London and Rome as professional thieves in this (mainly) two-player card game.
Nasi Lemak
Nasi Lemak is a bestseller in Malaysia, not just the food, but also the card game.
Shogi
Let’s do something a little different. Let’s play a game first released in 1587 not through Kickstarter.
DISC Personalities and Boardgames
Have you attended any training course on understanding personalities and communicating effectively? Here’s a free crash course. I promise it’s kind of related to boardgames.
King and Peasant preorder is up
Preorders for King and Peasant is up! Check out this Malaysian 2-player microgame which uses only 18 cards.
Loot
Loot is the official convention game of the 2004 Essen game fair. It is a roll-and-write game.
Tiger & Dragon
A clever shedding game which you might be able to con grandma into playing by saying it’s based on a traditional game of some obscure Asian culture.
boardgaming in photos: Ponzi Scheme, Innovation, Attika, Sabah Honeymoon
Sometimes I do a miscellaneous scrapbook kind of post and this is one of them.
Nucleum
What if nuclear power was discovered and harnessed at the start of the industrial revolution?
Rainbow
Don’t trust the unicorn. This is not a cutesy card game. This in an interesting game from Japan where the cards you play to score points in the current round in turn become the points for the next round.
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