This is what happens in my house.
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My name is Erik Mallinson. I draw pictures, make music, and some other stuff. I like playing the ‘ukulele, riding my scooter around Boston, and playing board games.
Follow me on Twitter (@erima) if you’re into that sort of thing.
You might also check out my illustration and music studio (@gravel).
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Posts tagged board games
Apr24
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Dec4
Clue t-shirts→
These would have been 1000% more satisfying if they had the images of the actors in the film.
Dec2
Index cards and sticky notes operate like the playing cards, counters and other game components: they make it easy to sort, shuffle, arrange and rearrange information. Flip charts and whiteboards function like playing fields or game boards – they bring logic and order to a space, allowing it to serve as a base for exploring combinatorial possibilities.
Dave Gray, “Why games?” (via austinkleon)
Jul14
In 2008, board game sales climbed 23.5% to about $808 million, and they’re expected to grow more this year.
… It’s a bummer that Mattel bought Blokus. That was one of the (maybe the only) independent games at the big box stores.
Fortune Magazine reports that board games are back – turns out recession = spending time playing games with friends and family. Surprisingly Blokus outsells Scrabble these days, and Settlers of Catan was the highest selling game last year. (via gravelroad)
Jul9
SWEET! Carcassonne is coming to the Nintendo DS. I’m planning to get the Carcassonne Big Box sometime soon, it looks like a fun game for adults and kids alike.
Jul1
The thing to remember about all game companies is that they’re run not by true publishing professionals, but by geeks like us. It’s not like someone steps down from Penguin or Doubleday, taking a bestselling technical book writer with them and then founds DiceOfDoom.com to write and publish rpgs. rpg companies are founded by some gamer geek with a bunch of ideas and too much time on their hands.
Next game session, look around the table and imagine founding a company with those people. Think about it honestly and then figure out how well-organised and professional you’d all be together. What would you get? Sloppy editing, crappy artwork, writing deadlines missed, books published years after they were promised, arguments about nothing which spill out onto forums where you all slander each-other…
Once you realise that all these game companies are run by ordinary gamer geeks, nerds hopped up on Mountain Dew with cheeto-stained fingers, everything else makes much more sense.
ZOMGZ. WANT. Zombies!!! Second Edition
Magic the Gathering: is blue and white a good card combination? - Yahoo! Answers→
The comment by Marcotte (last one) is a terrific overview of the differences between colors in Magic cards.
Jun30
After reading about the most valuable Magic cards I decided to dig up my mid–nineties Magic cards and see if they were worth anything. I had a brief love affair with Magic but seeing as I was just out of high school and living in an apartment I quickly discovered I did not have the money to keep up a Magic card addiction hobby. That didn’t stop me from buying a Booster Box – a whole box of those 15 card packages you can buy. Let me tell you – it was so incredibly fun to open up so many packs of cards consecutively.
Fast forward 13 years: I’m considering selling the basically unused and valuable cards that were from that Booster Box and purchasing a new Booster Box (or two) with the income. Maybe I still won’t play, but it would be interesting to keep it going.
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