London, UK, July 2018 Hercules Game Studios proudly announces Role Quest, a social roleplaying card game of guessing an improvisation set in a fantasy town. About the Game In Role Quest players take the roles of fantasy characters and roleplay normal or peculiar situations. They must act their hidden personalities well in order to […]
Editor’s Note: As a kind of content geek, I try new formats. So, here’s an interviewette for tabletop designers. We promise no TL;DR. Let’s see how Glenn Drover, the legendary designer of hot new game Raccoon Tycoon (published by Forbidden Games), shall we? BGB: Attention is money, my friend. What is the elevator pitch for […]
June 12th, 2018 – NYC, New York – Forsaken Games has announced its first official game, “Forsaken Forest,” for tabletop play. The game is now live on Kickstarter. Forsaken Forest: A Social Deduction Horror Survival Game The newest innovation within the social deduction genre, Forsaken Forest represents a tidy marriage between traditional hidden-role games and […]
Singapore, 7th June 2018 – Capital Gains Studio is proud to announce an exciting new table-top game titled Cryptocurrency. As the name implies, the game is built upon the emerging alternative digital currency that has skyrocketed in popularity over the recent years, sending investors on a frenzied ride with its erratic ups and downs, turning many […]
From the brilliant folks at Forbidden Games (Glenn Drover of Age of Empires III: The Board Game fame and Jason Kapalka, a co-founder and chief game designer at PopCap, makers of video games such as Bejeweled, Peggle and Plants vs Zombies, comes Raccoon Tycoon, launching on Kickstarter on June 19, 2018. What’s Raccoon Tycoon All About? In […]
The point at which the micro game meets the party game is a wonder. While both types of game package a lot of fun in often simple ideas, they do so in somewhat different ways. This makes it delightful to see them fuse into a compelling filler. Ta-Te Wu’s new Kung Pao Chicken inhabits that […]
Editor’s Note: As a kind of content geek, I try new formats. So, here’s a new interviewette for tabletop designers. We promise no TL;DR. Let’s see how Upstart Games, publisher of Civil Unrest (coming to Kickstarter soon) does, shall we? Civil Unrest is finally live on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1267849140/civil-unrest-the-board-game BGB: Attention is money, my friend. What is the elevator pitch […]
SECTRE is a new abstract strategy game from the Freshwater Game Company, an organization with a credo to admire. Freshwater is committed to environmentally sustainable games sourced from local businesses and assembled by hand. This Minnesota company has the right idea and Boardgame Babylon certainly supports their effort to create games in this kind of […]
What would card games be like if the suits outranked each other like in Rock, Paper, Scissors? That was the question that led artist Jeffrey Daymont to create a new deck of playing cards, the Janken Deck. The deck uses five suits: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Water and Lizard. Each suit is “Stronger” than two other […]
Echidna Shuffle is a fun game that your family and casual gamer friends will love. There’s something magical about games that are easy enough to let 6 year olds play but that also delight adults. Sure, we all love the idea of ‘easy to play, challenging to master’, but that’s not all there is. The […]