Hello world! We are pleased to announce the founding of Hawk and Dove, a new historical game studio. We're just getting started on this journey, and we invite you all to follow along as we navigate the incredible world of board game publishing!
Check us out here: www.hawkanddovegames.com
A while back, I posted about my move to the Netherlands later this year. As part of that move, my family is also venturing into the world of tabletop game publishing through Hawk and Dove. I'd be honored if you would check us out and follow along on our journey!
you're writing ghostface/wesker fic now?!
Is this about ghostface?
Definitive ranking of Scream films: 1, 5, 4, 2, 7, 3, VI. I will not be taking questions at this time 🔪
(1/4) We have become aware of a fraudulent website - ospreypress (dot) com - that is misrepresenting itself as Osprey Publishing. This site is not affiliated with us in any way.
I think a lot board gamers underestimate the depth of light games and overestimate the depth of heavy games. More moving parts does not necessarily mean a game has more strategy. It often just means there's more noisiness obscuring the impact of your decisions.
I’ll be at Origins this year with four GMs running @gmtgames.bsky.social events like:
- Baltic Empires
- Plum Island Horror
- Microverse
- Army of the Potomac
- Dominant Species (run by Kai Jensen)!
- Twilight Struggle (play with @jasondcmatthews.bsky.social)!
And more. Hope to see you there!
Might eventually cobble together a blog, depends on how regular I end up doing these!
Little review on Brian Asklev's upcoming Baltic Empires from GMT
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Happy to facilitate a game in Glasgow sometime, I know a few people who might be up for playing (we have a monthly historical/war boardgames meet-up you'd be welcome to join too, not sure if you're in the chat for that already though).
I've been working on a free, open source (FOSS) virtual tabletop program aimed at designers (using Godot). Over the last few months I've been focusing on component creation.
I'm looking for feedback and collaborators - please consider joining the team!
youtu.be/f3gy7jlzHdk?...
Basically, players want the complexity of a game to be worth it. They want to be pulled along by the strength of a game's narrative arc as much as by its mechanical arc. This is true across historical and euro games both.
I'm definitely not saying that effort is always sufficient, just that you might get a lot further than you'd expect with someone who is interested and engaged, even if they're unfamiliar with complex boardgames. On the other hand, if someone isn't interested then there's no point trying to force it.
Sometimes it's just about presenting information better, other times a game can afford to be simpler while still achieving everything the designer wants it to. It can be a tricky balancing act too, as different people can find different presentation styles easier or harder to understand.
I don't disagree, and I think there are many ways we can make games more accessible (your suggestions and feedback have been very helpful in this regard), but that doesn't necessarily mean we have to make complex games simpler.
The thing is that a lot of people don't want to play complex games (or don't want to play games on obscure historical topics), and that's absolutely fine. There are plenty of hobbies and art forms I don't have any interest in either. It's a mistake to try and make everything work for everyone.
I'm all in favour of making games clearer and simpler where appropriate, but I totally agree with Cole here – if somebody *wants* to learn how to play a complex game, a lot of the time they'll be able to figure it out, and they might not have been interested if it was more streamlined.
Enjoying a play of Baltic Empires from @gmtgames.bsky.social - this is an advance copy but you can still get one at the preorder price: www.gmtgames.com/p-954-baltic...
Jokes aside I actually do find philosophy training a real bar to therapy, maybe especially philosophy of science training, because therapists have an unfortunate habit of relying on really bad theories they can't properly explain or justify.
I want to thank people who took the time to read the document and watch the video I shared. It is also important to me that it is understood: I do not believe Matthew, Paula, Monique or Naveen (or anyone else) had involvement (or awareness) of the actions the owner of Game Night Picks took. 1/4
Close up of Stuart's image from the previous post, showing a solitary green unit (presumably allied) near Mount Etna, surrounded by enemy units
What is *this* guy up to? Paradropped into the volcano?!
I've been playing this again recently, it's such an impressive game that was so far ahead of its time. Still feels fresh and smooth today.
It's very innocent really, even (especially) Yor.
"You won’t be perfect, you’ll make mistakes, but you just have to start.”
"I already hear a lot of people hoping that they will learn how to play "correctly", or that they worry that they will play "wrong". But I think the fact that nobody really knows how to play is some of the magic of the game."
100% agree, I was just saying something similar to @pierrevj.bsky.social!
I played in this, it was great! Very smoothly run and helped us get up to speed with the system fast. Would love to see what a longer (but still short) miniphracts looks like.
BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.
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@kathleenbot.bsky.social big news in case you missed it, there's a new series of Spy x Family
Ah that makes sense, so the pages might be generated dynamically but the urls are essentially acting as a seed for the 3200 characters on each page?
