Posts By Artem Safarov
Dragon Slayer Review: Get your dragons in a row
Dragon Slayer is a Kickstarter offering from Indie Boards and Cards that was recently delivered to backers. It combines a simple push-your-luck decision making with the fun of rolling high-quality custom dice to deliver a simple yet enjoyable experience. It does not translate well to larger groups though, as the attempt to introduce player interaction falls short.
Board Games Habitat Photo Project
The purpose of this project is to have fun and find “natural habitats” for our favourite board games. It is meant as a collaborative project that many people can contribute to. The rules are simple – place a board game box in a setting that fits the theme of the board game and snap away! You can send in your submissions to [email protected] – all quality images will be posted here with the credit given to the creator.
Eldritch Horror Review : Dark stories await
Taking the Lovecraft theme that is one of the most frequently used in board games, Fantasy Flight Games managed to create something new and special – a co-op game of many subsystems that come together almost flawlessly to create engaging, coherent and suspenseful stories time after time after time. Put on your fedora hat and collect your occult research. We are going to save the world or have a blast trying in Eldritch Horror.
Castle Panic: Wizard’s Tower Expansion Review
Castle Panic by Fireside Games was a quick, light, easy co-op, ideal for younger gamers. While it offered simple and intuitive gameplay, the lack of complexity or challenge quickly made it lose its charms for more seasoned gamers.
The Wizard’s Tower expansion, released in 2011, aimed to address these shortcomings. The result is a game that is meaner, more involved and ultimately significantly more rewarding than the bland entry-level base offering. Let us take a look at how it goes about achieving this:
Travel games for business trips
Traveling on a business trip can often be quite boring, especially if you have to travel via train or plane. A lot of industry professionals like to occupy this traveling time by playing some sort of game. Those who feel lucky may like to use sites like Swankybingo.com/ to play bingo and perhaps win big, others may like classic phone games like snake or candy crush. I love taking board games with me to business trips – it’s a great way to spend the night away from home when you’re visiting a location that doesn’t offer too many exciting options for a night on the town. Because you are either on your own or with people who might not share your hobby, it is important that these games be playable solo.
Dungeon Roll: Short-lived custom dice fun
A party of adventurers delves into the dungeon for riches and glory. The classic (or tired as less generous gamers might say) premise gets a unique treatment in Dungeon Roll – a wonderfully compact dice game from Tasty Minstrel Games. They aren’t exactly reinventing the wheel — there are thousands of card games and RPGs that require a dice roller or custom dice, but the dice were a major selling point for this game and the cool factor of the custom dice fails to translate into anything substantial, however, the game seems to be perfectly content with that.