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During this Designer Deep Dive, we speak with Ignacy Trzewiczek about his upcoming title, Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game. Detective is a story based mystery game that integrates technology and real world on-line elements to create an immersive game play experience. We talk to Ignacy about his creation of

Hello Detectives! While the game was released a month ago in the US, and many of you had a chance to play, the European release is yet to come (September 26 to be precise). This is a good time to talk about common tips and tricks in maximizing Detective experience.

Listen to the Board Games Expansion podcast and learn, how Ignacy demoed Detective at UK Game Expo, and other designer’s anecdotes. Recorded in War Room Studios – Albuquerque, NM : 8/28/18 This episode brought to you by Inside Up Games, Tasty Minstrel Games, Arcane Wonders & Meeple Realty. The lovely

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

51st State expansion? It’s happening!

Operation „Essen” begins

The rulebook for Detective is the first rulebook we published that besides the rules of the game also covers advice on how to approach the game to enjoy it the most. Why would we do that? What differs Detective from any other game? Why care to tell you that you

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

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,

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

It’s time to get serious for a while, guys. Ignacy rants.

Detective: A Modern Crime Board game was our huge hit, both during the original pre-orders, and while special Gen Con 2018 pickup pre-orders. What’s more, we have sold more than 700 copies of the game at Gen Con! We would like to remind all of our fans that the pre-orders

Tonight on GameNight!, Nikki, Mike, Dave, and Lincoln play Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game designed by Ignacy Trzewiczek and published by Portal Games.

Gen Con, one of the biggest board game/fantasy convention in the USA. This time we visited Indianapolis with our new hot game – Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game 🙂