Giant RoboRally in Gen Con 2012

These are two photos about a giant working version of RoboRally, one of my all-time favorite games, in Gen Con 2012. It's really cool.

Wonderful Documentary: Made for Play

Recently I read the Spielbox magazine 2012.03 and found an interesting interview about a game production factory sharing information about game production process. Coincidently, I came across a video documentary from BGG News featuring the same factory. The 40-minutes footage titled "Made for Play: Board Games & Modern Industry" showing details steps of the whole process. Anyone who are interested in the gaming industry should take a look at it.

Site Split to Ludus Castle Vault

There was a situation bugging me for a long time. More often, updates about my game collection kept flooding this blog instead of giving more interesting postings. They were listings of game titles. After months of consideration, a decision was made to split this website into two. All updates merely about my game collection were moved to a sister blog Ludus Castle Vault therefore. With this move, I supposed postings on this website could be better managed. I could focus more on information or news about games and publishers and my thoughts perhaps. Hope it would be a wise move. ^_^

Sneak preview, another sister game blog but all in Chinese is under construction. ;-)

FRED distribution to reprint Montage

Montage is one ultimate partnership word game which I have been longing for. It debuted in 1973 and then had gone out-of-print for almost 40 years. U.S. publisher FRED distribution recently announced the reprint of Montage. The news was further confirmed by the original designer Joli Kansil. this a great news to know FRED is going reviving this holy grail.

This game attracts me by its unique partnership nature in a word game. Players work in pairs. A partner has to guess the keyword secretly set by his teammate before the opposing team. The trickiest part of the game is the riddles has to clues publicly. His partner must outwit the others to be the first one deciphering the riddle.

Now I don't have to search this game on eBay anymore. Hope it will be available in the market in one or two years.

Redeemed a MicroBadge - Plays Games with Lover

A microbadge "Plays Games with lover" was redeemed and attached to my BGG profile (tonyfung1205).

Copper Image Uploader Microbadge Award

I haven't expected that I would be a Copper Image Uploader. Thank BGG for awarding me this microbadge to my BGG profile (tonyfung1205).

100 hit count on one my game video

I have been taking videos about my games played since March 2007. The videos were then uploaded to my google video account. Amazingly, over 200 video clips have been uploaded already. Today I also noticed an interesting figure. One of the game videos has reached a hit count over 100 times! The video was captioned as "I have cow luck" featuring the game "Cosmic Cows".