‘Big Dig’: A Draft-and-Draw Game
Whether you’re hoping to strike oil or excavating archaeological treasures, you gotta dig deep.
Continue ReadingWhether you’re hoping to strike oil or excavating archaeological treasures, you gotta dig deep.
Continue Reading‘Gold West’ is an American Gold Rush-themed strategy game for 2-4 players. Players are tasked to develop the most successful mining operation they can, while their opponents vie for resources. Are you up to the challenge?
Continue ReadingAfter a hard day of stealing and grifting, the band of thieves is ready to divvy up the loot—and go shopping with their ill-gotten gains at the ‘Thief’s Market.’ Take whatever you want from the pile, but if you’re too greedy, somebody might just take from you instead!
Continue ReadingHarbour is a worker placement game focused on humor and economy. Buy buildings, use your tricks, and score big! Smash your opponents to become the Harbour Master.
Continue Reading‘Dungeon Roll’ is an opposed-press-your-luck strategy game published by Tasty Minstrel Games. Players form an adventure party to delve into the dungeon. Each round gets more difficult, and if they bust, they are forced to fight the dragon!
Continue ReadingWelcome to ‘Flip City.’ It’s a small town: a convenience store, a hospital, a factory, a central park, and a few residents. But you’ve got big plans. Raise money to expand and improve your city, but watch out that you don’t make your residents too unhappy!
Continue ReadingTable for Two is a series about board games designed for 2 players. Today’s game is Eminent Domain: Microcosm, which boils down the essence of the deck-building game Eminent Domain into a 2-player game that plays in 10 minutes. Note: Tasty Minstrel Games decided to use one of their short Kickstarter campaigns for this one, so it’s down to the last couple days to back the project if you’re interested.
Continue ReadingThe clock is ticking—time is short, and lives are at stake. Your team must navigate the robot to defuse the bombs and free the hostages—but everyone is working with limited intel. Welcome to Bomb Squad, a new board game currently on Kickstarter.
Continue ReadingScott Almes, a game designer also known for Tiny Epic Kingdoms, has designed this compact worker-placement game about being an entrepreneur in a fantasy port city. Harbour will be published by Tasty Minstrel Games, and is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.
Continue ReadingTasty Minstrel Games is on a roll this year with their Kickstarter games, particularly their line of “Pay What You Want” minigames. Their current project, with less than a week to go, has one of my favorite titles yet: This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the 2-4 of Us.
Continue ReadingBelfort: The Expansion Expansion, a worker-placement board game with a lot of humor, is now seeking funding on Kickstarter, but the world of Belfort is also expanding in another direction: a comic book!
Continue ReadingJust a quick note to remind any of you who might be looking for a new game to play that the Emininent Domain: Escalation Kickstarter has less than 36 hours left. It’s already raised enough funds to make it happen, but Tasty Minstrel Games has succeeded in raising enough additional funds to cover some great stretch goals. (And there are a couple more stretch goals left to reach!)
Continue ReadingHere are 8 Kickstarter projects currently running that have piqued my interest.
Continue ReadingI had a Google Hangout with Bradley Cummings (iOS Board Games) and John Meindersee II (Campfire Creations) to talk about games, game design, and designing for the iPhone vs. iPad.
Continue ReadingMartian Dice is a clever and simple casual game perfect for a tired family.
Continue ReadingThe good news is: you’ve been hired to supervise the construction of the new castle. The bad news is: due to a clerical error, you’re not the only one. And since there’s only one key to the city (purely ceremonial), …
Continue ReadingCan a card game replicate the excitement and strategy of boxing? Maybe not, but it can make for a fun time!
Continue ReadingTasty Minstrel Games is no stranger to Kickstarter campaigns: their deck-building strategy game Eminent Domain was originally funded last year through Kickstarter and hit over 200% of its funding goal. Since then TMG has streamlined their game-production process so they …
Continue ReadingLike board games? How about getting board games into the hands of needy kids? Tasty Minstrel Games, a board game publisher in Tucson, Arizona, is sponsoring a toy drive for Toys for Tots. While I haven’t yet gotten to play …
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