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The Board Soul
detailed paintings depicting stories from the Arabian Nights, center most is a genie escaping from a lamp. This is the cover art for the game Tales of the Arabian Nights.

Your Story

By Jeremy Signor • August 24th, 2017

We know how play can shape narratives in games, but what happens when the game itself makes you part of its story?

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A series of small pieces and a board with a planet in the center. This is the board game Terraforming Mars.

Terraforming Mars Together

By Jeremy Signor • August 17th, 2017

Just because you’re competing doesn’t mean you’re not also collaborating.

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A menagerie of Tolkien-esque figures, including wizards and trolls and halflings do battle across a muted brown landscape. This is the cover art from the board game Ethnos.

Little Earthquakes

By Jeremy Signor • August 10th, 2017

What happens when you tweak one little rule in a board game? The results can be subtle but magical.

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Breaking the Rules

By Jeremy Signor • August 3rd, 2017

Rules are the foundation on which board games are built, but how much can a game bend its own rules until it breaks?

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A grizzled man with a beard looks down at a vaguely humanoid toy face near a leaded glass window. This is the card art for the Magic the Gathering Card Feldon.

Can a Card Game Make You Cry?

By Jeremy Signor • July 27th, 2017

We’ve already hashed this tired question out in video games, but can tabletop game mechanics move us in the same way?

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Two people looking away in a watercolor. This is a still from the cover of the board game Scythe.

Kill Your Darlings

By Jeremy Signor • July 21st, 2017

Are the old standards in board game design worth keeping? Scythe succeeds by brilliantly contradicting them.

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The Serene Adventures of Above and Below

By Jeremy Signor • July 14th, 2017

Where does the soul of a board game reside? For Above and Below, it’s in its charming world.

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