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Detective demo at GameholeCon

On Nov. 8th to 11th, 2018, there will be the Gamehole Con at Alliant Energy Center Exhibition Hall in Madison, Wisconsin. There will be two Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game demo’s run by Deborah Cutler! Gamehole Con is the largest tabletop gaming convention in the upper Midwest. Tabletop gamers

GDJ Detective – Lone wolf

It’s late night and I am sitting at my desk. The place is finally quiet. Everybody sleeps. I have a cup with my favorite tea, a few pencils, notepads and my lucky set of dice. I bought them back then when I was in high school. Good old times. I

Detective: A Board Game Quest Review

Note: This will be a spoiler free review of Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game The investigation genre is not a new concept for board gaming. These episodic games started back with Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and have since branched out into a variety of games (Mythos Tales, Time Stories,

Detective – Case 6 announcement

Would you like to play a special convention Case no. 6, previously available only for those, who pre-ordered the game? Well, you are not the only one. In fact we have heard from a lot of you that you are interested in playing Case 6. Due to your requests, we

Gen Con 2018 – short report

Here is a short report from Gen con after the first two days! We have a ton of a great news about the Detective! We brought to Gen con more than 700 copies of Detective and well, few hours in on Friday and the game was sold out! On Friday

Game Design & Puzzlecraft Humble Book Bundle!

We are happy to announce that Boardgames That Tell Stories, and Boardgames That Tell Stories 2, books by Ignacy Trzewiczek, are part of a Humble Book Bundle by Shark Games & Friends. That’s your chance to start your collection, especially since on September 1st we are going to launch a

Welcome to PORTAL GAMES

We are bookworms. Movie maniacs. Story addicts. We grew up reading Tolkien, Howard, Herbert, Dick, Lem… We were watching Willow, Blade Runner, Never Ending Story, Robin Hood…

And yet, we don’t write books… we don’t make movies. We don’t make those things, because we make games. We make games that tell stories.