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Are You a Card Draw Calvinist?
A fun topic of conversation cropped up on the Nights Around a Table Discord server recently, and i want to know where you weigh in. In a board or card game that has a specific turn order, where everyone gets to draw a random card from the deck, does it matter who...
What’s the hApps? – Viticulture: Essential Edition on iOS
If you are new to this blog series, check out my intro article. In this series, I hope to cover a number of board game apps and give my thoughts without talking much about whether or not I like the game. Today’s review covers the new Viticulture app by Digidice....
What’s the hApps? – Race for the Galaxy on iOS
Ok, so in the intro to this series, I waxed poetic about being objective, but today I’m going to talk about my favorite game of all time: Race for the Galaxy by Thomas Lehmann. For frame of reference, as I talk about this app, I have (based on logged plays) played...
What’s the hApps? – Introduction
At this point, I’m going to say something that everyone in 2020 knows: COVID-19 has changed our lives in substantial ways, primarily causing humans to shun physical or social contact with those outside their familial bubble. Maybe that’s not such a big change for...
The Game is Afoot
i'm rarely a pioneer of anything. At best, i'm a slow follower. This was the case with my escape game business and my bid to make board game videos on YouTube for Nights Around a Table. But every so often, i suffer momentary flashes of brilliance. And this is one of...
How to Turn any Website into a Search Engine with Google Chrome
i wanted to share this productivity tip with you, because going fast through tedious tasks can be a real brain-saver. This is how to reduce any website that has a search function to a single letter lookup in the Google Chrome web browser. For example, i search...
i still make board game videos.
It's been over and a year and a half since, after finding myself drastically under-employed, i decided to launch a YouTube channel called Nights Around a Table to post board game videos. For the past two years, i've been maintaining an ego pump-up file of the...
The Difference a Year Makes
It's been just over a year now since i started making board game videos for a channel called Nights Around a Table. One of the reasons i wanted to tackle video is that it was always a mystery to me. Every so often, i would need to make a video to promote something i...
i make board game videos now.
https://youtu.be/BFeE0gnORJs i lost my position as a creative writer and puzzle designer at the Mysterious Package Company last Christmas when the company nigh-imploded. Through Spring, i contracted as a game designer and business consultant for a kids' augmented...
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