The Tao of Gaming

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Notes


According to my profile, I've played 10 different games in the last 30 days. ~70 games of Race, and nine other titles once each. [The other nine include sitzkriegs as R-Eco, Loco, Apples to Apples and Geschenkt!]

Larry Levy waffles about the Designer of the Year here. I look forward to his political post where he endorses Clinton, McCain, Obama and "That weird one."

I haven't forgotten the Master Solvers post, but I'm a) waiting for it to die down and b) wishing for a one-armed economist. As for doing more, well, send me the problems and I'll post them. (I'll watch for interesting draws ... I could do mid-games, but that means a lot of typing to get the setup).

Another idea I'd considered is running an annotated PBEM. If you want to play, shoot me an email, but you have to write up your reasoning with your plays. I'm not convinced I want to do this yet, as my wife is already giving me strange looks.

Update: As to how the PBEM would work (as there have been questions). I'd shuffle a deck (make an excel spreadsheet of the deck, assign each card a random number and then sort the card based on those). I'd also have to create a file for the "open" position (everything except hands) and email it out seperately. Obviously commentary would only be revealed after the game (or perhaps a few turns delay would suffice). Ideally most players would send in their role selection, I'd send out the update (along with any explore cards) and then they'd send back builds/consume/produce to minimize traffic. Toward the mid-end game players are probably more likely to want to see each build before continuing.

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Admin Note


Close your eyes; take a deep breath; relax.

I'll be travelling for a few days.

Thursday, April 6, 2006

Intermission


I'm tanned, rested in ready.

But the hotel is different than last years. I don't remember it having a computer to use (and I'm not taking a laptop). So I have no idea if I'll be posting.

So I leave you with your intermission entertainment. And yes, that was just posted recently.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

My old reviews


As noted in an early comment, my old website is gone. (I got the webspace as part of a deal with a UNIX shell and dialup ... and I have DSL now). I've migrated my old reviews to Boardgamegeek. I move content over after a reasonable lag.

Just like movies go to cable first. Only premium content here!

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

A guest blogger


The Tao of Gaming is pleased to announce Tom Lehmann will guest blog. (Here's thegames he's designed, , and Joe Huber wrote a profile of Tom). I've known Tom for several years, and enjoy our discussions.

Tom will post as the mood strikes. I'm not going on hiatus, we have no schedule. (Writing on a schedule smells like work).

Enjoy!

And yes, I did play games tonight, but I'll write about that later.

Sunday, January 30, 2005

Reviewing my Reviews

In general, I like my reviews (I'd like them better if my writing showed signs of improving after all of these years). I tried to update reviews on my old page, with mixed success. I've decided to pull over a review every now and then and then just tack on how my thoughts have changed. I may clean up spelling (or grammer) errors in a bit of orwellian history control, but for the most part they'll be unchanged.

Part of the reason I showed my "games played" list is that it showed the dichotomy between words and actions. Always good to know.

Update: The urge to make significant editorial changes won. I haven't altered any meanings (I hope), but I did clean up what struck me as poor writing.

Monday, January 24, 2005

Letters Policy:
I don't have one. However, I think it's safe to consider emails asking game-related questions as fair grounds for publication. Certainly if you have a game-question and don't want the answer published, let me know. Of course, I may wind up just answering via the blog (without indicating that I got a letter about it).