It was 1999, I was in the process of starting Portal Games and I was looking for an artist to do a cover art for my first product. Finally, I found a guy. It was pretty challenging – in 1999 there was no internet galleries, no DeviantArt, no emails, no

[I run this blog since July 2011. I’ve decided I will choose articles I like the most and republish them here to present them to all new board game fans that joined our hobby meanwhile! For all of you who already read the article, I hope, you will have a

An interesting thing happened and I think it deserves a short article so I can share my thoughts on the topic. I was contacted by Dave Lartigue, who started a thread at Board Game Geek about fan-created events in the First Martians. He wrote: “Is there a way to prevent

[I run this blog since July 2011. I’ve decided I will choose articles I like the most and republish them here to present them to all new board game fans that joined our hobby meanwhile! For all of you who already read the article, I hope, you will have a

Apparently, he likes to make things harder. I mean, he could just take few new ideas for cards, mix them, put into one box and sell for 10 bucks per copy. But, no! Ignacy Trzewiczek is this dude that tells stories, huh? So he had to come up with something

In the past two weeks, I had a chance to play again two great classic board games – Le Havre and Age of Empires III. Both of them are easily in my Top 100 Games of All Time and I cannot say enough how much I love and respect these

[I run this blog since July 2011. I’ve decided I will choose articles I like the most and republish them here to present them to all new board game fans that joined our hobby meanwhile! For all of you who already read the article, I hope, you will have a

Last week I was preparing for my Top 5 games of 2008. Each week I record a podcast here in Poland with my wife Merry and that particular weekend we decided to go with a similar topic to the one discussed by The Dice Tower lately – best games from

I remember 2007 and our first Essen. We went to the Spiel with Neuroshima Hex and our pitch was ‘hybrid game’. It was a time of two worlds colliding. On one hand, we had all those awesome American games, with a great theme, perfect artwork, and rules that were so-so.

In the previous blog post, I wrote about my perception of last year and how I will recall 2017 from the point of board games industry. There was one word – Kickstarter. The platform and its releases got super strong this past year, and Gloomhaven reaching #1 spot in BGG

Last week we finished another contest for our fans. Previously this year we run a contest for new abilities for Cry Havoc, then we run a contest for a new scenario for Robinson Crusoe, then for new events and adventures for First Martians. It’s not a joke. It’s not marketing

Ignacy has some thoughts on flying. And games, that too. It’s Sunday morning. I am at Pax Unplugged, it’s the last day of the con, I will be leaving convention center and heading to the airport in two or three hours. At some point, a guy comes, shakes my hand

Ignacy would like to talk a little bit about tutorials. We – as an industry – struggle. To grow, we must expand. To expand we must find new customers, new gamers who will join our hobby. Finding them is the easier part, actually. The hardest? Help them play the game.

Read about our Essen plans from Ignacy’s perspective… 11th anniversary or how to step up the game nevertheless If I knew my shit and did the math right, we’d celebrate 10th Essen last year. Our first Essen was 2007 (the release of Neuroshima Hex) and last year I had this

Ignacy would like to share some thoughts about designing combat rules for Alien Artifacts: I’ve been here Back then in 2011, I wrote an article about the struggle with direct interaction and combat mechanism in 51st State. For long months I had no clue how to approach the problem –