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Gen Con 2019: The Final Game Previews

Gen Con 2019: The Final Game Previews
From gallery of W Eric Martin
Gen Con 2019 opens in two days, and despite my efforts to preview as many games as possible that will debut at that show or first be widely available there — kicking off with my overview of Black Angel on the day after Origins 2019 ended and continuing until tomorrow, July 31 with a look at The Towers of Arkhanos — I haven't been able to cover more than a sampling of what will be featured in Indianapolis. Twas an effort doomed to fail, yet an effort that had to be undertaken nevertheless.

This video highlights a few of the Gen Con 2019 games that I've played but not yet covered, games that arrived too late to be covered, and games that seemed appropriate to comment on in some manner. Some of them will also be featured or new (or "new") at SPIEL '19, so I'll have a chance to preview them for that show instead. I already have one such preview video in the can for Monday, August 5, 2019 when the SPIEL '19 Preview will go live on BGG.

For a peek into my highly organized workflow, here's the whiteboard I've been using to track games that I might cover, the number of times I've played these games, and the player counts I've experienced them at:


From gallery of W Eric Martin


The board isn't up-to-date and doesn't cover every game that I've covered over the past two months, but it feels good to look at that and see what I've done — while also feeling guilty over what I haven't done. Such is life.

In any case, I have a plane to board soon, so let me drop this video and get packing:


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