Spiel 2015 Preview: Fram R'lyeh, or Say It, Don't Spray It as You Descend into Madness

At this point, Cthulhu in the game industry is like oxygen in the atmosphere — present in 21% of the environment, yet seemingly even more omnipresent given all the attention it gets.

Even so, I can't recall Cthulhu or his chthonic cronies showing up in a trick-taking game until the release of Fram R'lyeh from designer rerasiu and publisher BakaFire Party — and this isn't so much a trick-taking game as it's a bidding game with the feel of trick-taker. (Or is trick-taking just a subsection of the vast game mechanism known as "bidding" and I never previously noticed? Something to think about tonight when you tire of counting Great Old Ones in a failed effort to fail asleep.)

Designer Diary: Dice City, or Crafting Your Dice, One Side at a Time

Sep 25, 2015

February 2012: I am sitting at my dining table with a copy of Quarriors! on it. I have just gotten the game, and I can't wait to play it. I've read all about it, how it takes the deck-building...

Designer Diary: CVlizations, or How to CVlize a Game

Sep 24, 2015

CVlizations and my other game Andromeda (which I wrote about previously) are being published at the same time, but their stories are very different.I started working on CVlizations a year after...

Spiel 2015 Preview: Sapiens, or Dominoes at the Dawn of Time

Sep 24, 2015

One way to ease a player into a particular game is to give them something familiar, while pairing it with something new. Sometimes the effect works wonderfully, putting a twist on a game that you...

Designer Diary: Clacks! A Discworld Board Game, or Going Postal on the Game Board

Sep 23, 2015

The Magic of the DiscworldBack in September 2011 Leonard Boyd and I (David Brashaw) who run Backspindle Games had recently published Guards! Guards! A Discworld Boardgame in conjunction with...

Spiel 2015 Preview: Hack Trick, or Magic Card Play Squared

Sep 22, 2015

In October 2014 in the run-up to Spiel 2014, I posted an overview video for József Dorsonczky's Six MaKING from Mind Fitness Games, one of the few abstract strategy games that has reworked Chess...

Spiel 2015 Preview: Fram R&#039;lyeh, or Say It, Don&#039;t Spray It as You Descend into Madness

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