Fair warning: you’re going to notice a theme this week, if you haven’t already, and I’m not just talking about Classic Games. This is something far, far more sinister than a nostalgic trip into our collective childhood. Yep, I’m talking...
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Few games have the breadth of play that Chess enjoys. Chess as we know it has been with western civilization since the 10th century CE, having adapted from Indian and Persian games over a few centuries before that. While the...
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Among board games, genres are often defined by their assumptions. games assume that the players will work together to win. games assume a steady economy of actions. Monopoly presumes a certain economic savvy about good investments versus bad investments (even...
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Episode 013 Length: 31:02 Subscribe to Show Link: Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast! We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 – 30 minutes long. Dave Gordon...
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The game of Go exists as one of the oldest and most enduringly popular games in the world, and somewhat paradoxically, in Western culture, also one of the least known. Like Mancala, Backgammon or Snakes & Ladders, it is one...
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By now you may have noticed that the October Indie Spotlight is a bit lacking in, well, a game. And there’s a purely good reason for that: all of the choices were terrible. Simply terrible… Nah, were just...
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All of the board games that we now consider the “Classics” were not the only games of the their times, and this notion tends to get lost in discussion. Each had competitors that were often surprisingly similar in theme, in...
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Greetings everyone! We’d like to formally welcome you to the kickoff of our Fortnight of Classic Games. That’s right, for the next two weeks, we’re going to be enticing everyone to revisit their early board gaming days by mentioning some...
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When Hollywood makes a movie with an expansive budget, big-named actors, and special effects that will impress the most stingy critics, they have to get the green light from some deep-pocketed studios. Well, you are not part of one of...
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Gamers love to try out new concepts and ideas, partly due to the newness factor, and partly because we are currently in an era of unmitigated game design expansion. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter have only added to this rapid pace,...
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