Summary
Fury of Dracula is a 4 vs. 1 game. Even if only two people are playing, 1-4 people will control the vampire hunters who moves across an undirected graph connecting cities in Europe (shown below) and one player controls Dracula. Dracula moves secretly through the map, laying down traps in the cities he visits or [...]
Check out Brenda Braithwaite’s piece from last year. I’ve been meaning to post about this for ages now…
http://playthisthing.com/train
Train is not your standard board game. It comes on a full-sized window, not in a cardboard box. There is no company logo on the rules, because there is no publisher. You cannot buy it, because only one [...]
Check out Gabe’s experience with the WoW CCG and MMO character he built here. He notes that “the card game is built so well that I was actually able to construct a deck that matched my WOW character exactly.” He comments on how surprised he was that “they managed to model all the PC game [...]
So, we’ve covered digital game-to-board game adaptation briefly in our game session in the past (re: Doom the Board game and currently Starcraft) and intend to focus more so on it in the coming weeks with the Starcraft board game. Ian Bogost posted recently about a fun find in board game history: http://www.bogost.com/blog/zimmer_base_ball_and_cigars.shtml