illustration by Mads Berg This might be why we need board games more than ever. The Rules We Break, the latest book from Eric Zimmerman, professor of game design at the NYU Game Center and ...

An accepted fact of childhood: Monopoly is a slow game that requires consecutive snow ... have a mobile device,” says Brian Baker, SVP of board games at Hasbro, who adds that children are ...

“Designers are becoming more focussed on the experience the players are having, and are using a stronger tool kit to build better games,” Geoff Engelstein, who teaches board-game design at New ...

Canvas Infernum is a tile placement puzzle game with ... ve got a huge board and you're stuck deciding where to place a single tile, which can be overwhelming. So we aimed to design tighter ...

Deck-building games are among the newer innovations in the ages-old hobby of playing card and board games ... 2008 there was a minor revolution in game design with Dominion, which invented ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Hexagon Alley is for both the novice and the player with a regular game. Rieman's interest in board games sparked about 12 years ago, and he estimates ...

Thanks to Arydia's Game Master-less design that sense of community spirit is more than uplifted, but there's no denying the D&D influence on this board game TTRPG hybrid. Of course, there's more ...

Here’s how it works. Eric M. Lang has basically seen it all when it comes to board game design. With literal decades of experience and countless projects under his belt, the Canadian defines ...