The second overview of the year focusing on the most funded kickstarter projects in the Tabletop Games category. The main focus will remain on boardgames and RPGs. February 2019 saw the launch of 233 Kickstarter projects compared to 146 projects in January. Of the total of 379 ended projects in 2019, 75% were succesfully funded. … Read more
In this post I’ll give an overview of the Tabletop Games category on kickstarter and more specifically hte most funded Tabletop Games kickstarters in January 2019. My main focus will be boardgames and RPGs and I have to add that I’m only checking the Tabletop Games category. I’ve noticed that an RPG supplement like Dice … Read more
On the 17th of December I returned to the Spelhuis gaming store for another Hyperspace demo. Hyperspace is an upcoming space exploration game by Petersen Games that is coming to Kickstarter in January of 2019. Check out the Petersen Games Hyperspace website to discover all the different races that will be available in the game. … Read more
On the 14th of December I visited the local Spelhuis gaming store in Zonhoven to demo the upcoming Hyperspace game. Hyperspace is a space exploration game by Petersen Games coming to Kickstarter in Januari 2019. My buddy Carsten and I played a two-player game where he took the role of the Fungi while I played … Read more
Day 2 of the Kraken 2015 started out by checking out the ‘What’s up Chaosium?’ seminar. Sandy Petersen, Jeff Richard, Neil Robinson, and Michael O’Brien talked about the Call of Cthulhu 7th edition fulfillment and new products which are in the pipeline. Including a still secret project which was mentioned strictly off the record so … Read more
On Sunday I returned to Spiel 2014 to pick up my copy of Shadows of Brimstone. I located the pick-up point quite fast but underestimated the size of the reward a little bit. So I ended up hauling a big carton box back to the car, minutes after I had entered the building. I then … Read more
Spiel is Europe’s biggest gaming convention and gaming should be taken as broadly as possible. There’s RPGs, LARP materials, boardgames, comics, artists, and so on. My main interest in going to Spiel has always been the RPG section which this year was located in Hall 2. On Thursday around noon I walked into one of … Read more
The Kraken 2014 Day 2 starts with a conversation about roleplaying games design at the breakfast table. A statement is made that roleplaying games could learn a lot about tight game design from boardgames. When I countered with the difference between the two being that the rules in board games are supposed to be followed, … Read more
Day one of the Kraken 2014 started out with a few sessions of 7 wonders. I’m still not hugely into board games but this is a really nice game. We played it once with 4 people, and again with 5 people. First time I played, I slacked on getting resources and it bit me in … Read more
The location The Kraken takes place in Schloss Neuhausen in Neuhausen, Germany. That’s right, it’s a castle. What more could you ask of a convention than it being run in an actual castle? In the pictures below you’ll be able to see the cool scenery in which you’re playing games. There’s games being run in the … Read more