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From construction to sailing, in the unknown journey, let’s talk about the process and significance of designing a board game
In the early summer of this year, I accepted a commission from a friend to design a tabletop game for Greenpeace. The source of creativity comes from “Spaceship Earth-Climate Emergency Mutual Aid Package”, which is a set of concept cards produced by the staff of Luhe, hoping to help ...Read more -
21Japanese designers in DICE CON
Friends who follow DICE CON may remember that this year we gathered some Japanese independent designers and set up an exhibition area for the guest country of board game. This year, we invited 21 Japanese designers to participate in DICE CON, and established a “board game guest countryR...Read more -
What is the origin of this game that has been sold out immediately after release?
When I saw “Box Girl” for the first time, I couldn’t see that it was a board game at all. Although there are many horror elements in reasoning games, such a horrible game cover appears for the first time in the world of board games. Later I learned that the agent of this game i...Read more -
Go deep into the dark realm and find the secrets of the legend-” DESCENT: Legends of The Dark “
Although the delay of DICE CON is nothing new. But when I saw major exhibitors announce their new products one after another, I was still quite heartbroken. The games that should be gloriously displayed at our exhibition were released on time (wiping tears). However, when we received the (long-a...Read more -
I traveled back a thousand years ago and became a detective
When I was a child, I especially wished that I could become Conan, owning his watch gun of the same type, and after shooting someone else, I coolly picked up the bowtie microphone, and after some rigorous reasoning, I said: “There is only one truth.” When I grew up, I envied Kogoro A...Read more -
Will it be the dark horse of this year’s SDJ Awards?
Last month, the annual SDJ announced the candidate list. Nowadays, SDJ awards have become the vane of the board game circle. Many people judge the standard of a game to see if it has won various board game awards, not to mention the SDJ game that was carefully selected by German players. This ye...Read more -
Some people huddle together, some people flip the table, but this is still a sincere board game.
In 2019, Will announced plans to release “Pamir Peace: Second Edition” on various social platforms. In the message interaction, a netizen asked him politely if he had any plans to reprint “John’s company“. He replied, “Someday. But it Will take at least two years lat...Read more -
True Board Game Geeks are Already Making Games at Their Own Expense
Let’s go back to April 2020. At that time, the epidemic had just begun abroad, and people were trapped at home with nothing to do. And the table players are restless. As we all know, table gamers are big shots who make their own game maps, storage boxes and even dedicated game tables. And ...Read more -
A father with a child can still bring out a “board game world”
Have you ever seen a dad taking care of a kid? In most people’s mind, fathers take care of their children = “irresponsible”. But in Huddersfield, UK, there is such a father, in the process of taking care of his children not only very good, and by the way, also designed a board g...Read more -
The game, which sells 17 sets a minute, turned 50 this year
In 1971, in the small town of Cincinnati, Ohio, there were many Italian residents. Among them were the Robbins family. They love to play a card game called Crazy Eight, but they often argue over the changing rule. So, they redesigned the rule and called it UNO. When you have the last card left, ...Read more -
Easier Said Than Done!How to Avoid the “Design Disaster” of Game Covers
Looking at the rows of board games on the game rack, can you remember the game whose cover is likable at first view? Or the game whose mechanism is fun, but it looks a little scary. To some extent, the cover of a game determines whether a game is good or not. With the improvement of people’...Read more -
Growing Process for Girl Group of Korean Board Game Design
The idol industry has been sufficiently mature in South Korea. As the saying goes, Korea has three treasures: idol, shopping, food. Good-looking idols are the same, but there are really few interesting idols. Recently, In the graphic design industry of the young generation in South Korea, there i...Read more
