One of the games I got to try at Origins was Tahiti, which is currently on Kickstarter. While I am backing it already, due to how the game looked and knowing the designer, I thought it would be a great opportunity to learn the game from the designer himself. Dave sat down with four of us and taught us the game, and I was blown away.
Stratus Games is making a new party game about being a little bit crazy, or at least acting like it. In Off Your Rocker, you either play one of the patients with a strange quirk or the psychiatrist trying to figure out what the quirk is. They offered a preview to anyone who would review the game, and since I was already heading to MiniPenCon, I thought it could be a good chance to check the game out. In the game, the psychiatrist leaves the room and the patients look at a card and pick one of the two options on...
Kickstarter is a website where you can put an idea up and offer rewards and people can pledge money to your cause. While used for many creative endeavors, the main projects I’ve pledged money towards is boardgames. One of the current games available to Kickstart is Fleet, a game that’s about controlling a fleet of fishing boats. This game looks really nice, and seems to have a simple resource management mechanism and a rather unique theme. While I have other games that involve sailing boats and resource management, I don’t have any other games that involve fishing. It looks like...
