From the monthly archives:

May 2003

Games, games, games

May 30, 2003

What’s going on, gamewise: Order from Adam Spielt with my brand new credit card (I finally went and got one). I’m getting Amun-Re, Age of Steam, Coloretto, King Lui, Dia de los Muertos, Mamma Mia! and probably Land Unter too. That’s about 90 euros worth of games. Add to that 130 euros worth of stuff [...]

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A prototype game

May 27, 2003

I got a prototype game in mail from an American reader of this web site. It looks interesting, it’s a quite flexible abstract game system. A bit like the GIPF project games, perhaps. But, that’s all about it now — I’ll write a detailed review if and when they start selling the game and want [...]

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Back home

May 25, 2003

Hi, I’m back home. Rome was splendid, I definitely recommend it. Especially if you like pizza and ice cream — last week we mostly ate pizza and the very delicious Italian ice cream. You can get really good pizza in Finland, but Finnish ice cream is nothing compared to the Italian. Of the various sights [...]

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Letter from Germany

May 16, 2003

Something I wanted to share with you before I leave: I got a letter today from Friedhelm Merz Verlag — the company behind the Spiel in Essen. I was quite surprised. Turns out they had sent me a voting ballot for the Deutscher SpielePreis 2003, because I voted last year. Nice. I was going to [...]

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I’ll Get My Coat

May 15, 2003

I’ll shut up for a while, now. I’m going to Rome with Johanna, so the blog will be silent all next week, while I’m going to have lots of fun. It’s a good thing I got to play Capitol in the FinDipCon, so I’ll know the sights. Also, we’ll be making a one-day trip to [...]

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Cosmic Pig

May 15, 2003

More crazy stuff from the Seattle Cosmic: a variant of Cosmic Encounter, which makes the game more like the Interstellar Pig. Take a look at the Cosmic Pig. If I played Cosmic Encounter more often, that’d be something I’d love to try.

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Growing old and bitter

May 14, 2003

I went through my Boardgamegeek ratings and updated them a bit. Seems I’m becoming more critical: my average rating went down from 7.30 to 6.99. Quite a few games dived from 7 to 4, for example. It was an interesting exercise…

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Sunda to Sahul success

May 14, 2003

I got the results of the previous board game club meeting last weekend (which I missed), and I’m happy to see the success of Sunda to Sahul. I borrowed the game, because Ilari asked and they played six games of it. Neat! It’s now the second most played game in our board game club this [...]

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Game studies

May 10, 2003

The game studies group meeting went well. My talk was rather unstructured, but hopefully someone got something of it. There were about eight people there, some of which were already quite familiar with board games. Different point of views, though. Petri seems like a fan of American school of board game design, citing games like [...]

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Recent action

May 7, 2003

I’ve been hanging around at the Puolenkuun Pelit web forum. There’s not much about board games, but it’s been curious to watch and participate nevertheless. Also, they’re planning a gaming weekend in September, which looks like a good event. Yesterday I prepared my talk about board games, which I’ll be having tomorrow when the game [...]

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