Amabel Holland is a prolific and innovative game designer who has published games like This Guilty Land and City of Six Moons under her publishing imprint Hollandspiele.  And, in the last few years…

Ever since I’d heard that there was a viable starvation strategy in Stone Age, I’ve had a morbid curiosity about it.  So, when I was learning the expansion at a meetup and the first few turns playe…

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Landing page for Technology and Society, Incorporated. Owner Curtis Frye is an online trainer and conference keynote speaker.

Tell you what: we can talk about keeping politics out of our games when politicians stop playing games with our lives and livelihoods.  Until then, I’ll keep exploring the ethical, cultural, and ev…

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Today, author and podcaster Tim Clare joins us at the table to talk about his new book with two titles: The Game Changers (British edition) and Across the Board (US edition).  As these titles sugge…

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Erica and Sen speak with author and academic, J. Rey Lee, about his book entitled, "Unsettling Catan: Detached Design in Eurogames". They discuss Catan's impact on the hobby, what detached design actu...

If the Medic is the most powerful character I’ve ever played, Pandemic’s Researcher might be the weakest.   I don’t mean to say the Researcher is unplayable.  Her ability is quite us…

Board games are bigger and more welcoming than ever, but women still face an uphill battle for the right kind of representation.

Personal and Philosophical Reflections on Boardgaming

Alice has a famously curious habit of falling headlong into strange and wondrous worlds, tumbling down rabbit-holes and melting through looking glasses as if slipping into a dream.  Alice’s ad…

Today, I’m excited to launch a brand new interview series where I table folks who talk games! Our first guests are Paul Booth and Aaron Trammell, two scholars who have written extensively on …

It’s a Wonderful World is a neat engine-building card game.  It’s not exactly my favorite game, but it must be doing something right since I’ve played it *checks notes* 2,896 times.  That…

If you know, you know: that calmly euphoric feeling when you get so enraptured by a game that time seems to stand still—not because time literally stops, but because it flows so smoothly and effort…