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BLOG: Fan content explained

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

Neuroshima HEX! 3.0 USA tournaments – March 2018

Hi there, mutants, road warriors and wasteland dwellers alike! We would like to announce upcoming Neuroshima HEX! 3.0 tournaments! Check them out, come, play, and win! Granite Game Summit – March 9-11 http://www.granitegamesummit.com/events-g2s18/ CoastCon – March 16-18 http://www.coastcon.org/gaming/ MeepleCon – March 16-18 https://tabletop.events/conventions/meeplecon-2018/pages/envoy-state-championships AdeptiCon – March 22-25 http://www.adepticon.org/ BFGCon –

BTTS Archives – It better plays fast

[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

BLOG: He is not that dude

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

Alien Artifacts Rulebook Update

Spacefaring is a tough job. While there are mechanisms in the game, that allow to quickly rebuild a damaged ship, they caused some pretty overpowered combo. From the beginning our intention was, that having your ship damaged is bad and loosing it is worse. While the latter stays true, when

Board Games Insider Podcast

Board Games Insider is a bi-monthly podcast brought to you by industry veterans Ignacy Trzewiczek and Stephen Buonocore intended for designers and small publishers, but invaluable to everyone. Check out what Stephen and Ignacy would like to tell you here: Official Page: http://boardgamesinsider.com/ Board Game Geek page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepodcast/27131/board-games-insider And if

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.