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Posts about Board Game written by Dan Thurot
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Space-Cast! #46. Screaming Sherlock
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/30/sbsc-46/
Published: April 30, 2025 20:17
Is Jono Naito-Tetro a designer? A collective? A publisher? ALL OF THE ABOVE? On today’s Space-Cast!, we sit down with Jono to chat about a wide range of exciting titles. From the creative crime-sleuthing of Here Lies to the garbled transmissions of Signal…
Boss Cells
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/29/dead-cells/
Published: April 29, 2025 21:11
I don’t envy the creative team tasked with adapting Dead Cells to cardboard. The video game is all twitch reflexes and light-speed assaults — a state I’ve heard called “submission,” more about submerging oneself within a game’s flow than about responding…
Sockeye Salmon Slayers
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/28/katmai/
Published: April 28, 2025 21:19
With their bright red scales and barbed mouths, sockeye salmon have always looked to me like an invasive species from some alien moon. That Alaskan brown bears love to eat the things by the hundreds only endears me to them further. Go bears. Get those fish…
Fear Factory
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/24/scream-park/
Published: April 24, 2025 22:58
Haunted houses aren’t my thing. But games by design collective Jasper Beatrix are very much my thing. When it comes to Scream Park, a drafting game about assembling a seasonal haunted house, I’m glad I took the risk. Not only are there no jump scares for…
Here Lies Every Other Detective Game
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/23/here-lies/
Published: April 23, 2025 17:38
Dear reader, I think I’m falling in love… with the design collective Jasper Beatrix. Typeset offered our first furtive glance. Signal jumped us to second base. Yop. We move fast. Now that I’ve played Here Lies, we’re already booking venues for the wedding…
Gingham Takes a Roadside Picnic
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/22/gingham/
Published: April 22, 2025 16:18
Yesterday I previewed Gazebo, a forthcoming remake of Reiner Knizia’s Qin. In the usual Bitewing tradition, Gazebo has been partnered with another game, one it broadly shares a setting and aesthetic with. That game is Gingham. Created by Robert Hovakimyan,…
Gazebo Takes It on the Qin
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/21/gazebo/
Published: April 21, 2025 17:24
Right when I’d sworn off writing about any more Bitewing Knizias, they went and got the rights to Qin. Long out of print, Qin — pronounced “chin,” for those among us who keep stumbling over that Q — is another Reiner Knizia tile-layer, one that…
Flying Too Close to the Ruff
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/17/trickarus/
Published: April 17, 2025 18:35
Trick-taking alert! This week’s instance of the genre is Trickarus, which scores an extra point for its pun of a title. Designed by Bajir Cannon, this one takes cues from Greek myth. You are an adorable pajama-wearing child with a set of homemade wings,…
Inhale & Exhale
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/16/rise-and-fall/
Published: April 16, 2025 15:29
My game group has an inside joke. Anytime Geoff comes over and sees hexes on the table, he’ll say, “Oh, we’re playing Archipelago?” Rise & Fall is the first time I’ve been able to say, “No, but it was designed by the same guy.” I’ll confess, though, that…
Don’t Know If It’s Day or Night
https://spacebiff.com/2025/04/10/purple-haze-2/
Published: April 10, 2025 19:53
A lot has changed with Bernard Grzybowski’s Purple Haze since I examined it three years ago. As wargames go, the final product is more assured and polished, as one would expect, but also less burdened by the prototype try-hard attitude. I might even go so…