Links: A Village Song, A Meeple Pile & A Theory about Board Game Collections

Links: A Village Song, A Meeple Pile & A Theory about Board Game Collections
Board Game: Carcassonne
• How do you get publicity for your games? Put them in front of famous people and let the media do their thing. To wit, German publisher Hans im Glück has posted a shot of Saxony's Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich and Minister of Social Affairs Christine Clauß playing Meeple Stapeln, a meeple stacking game that can be played with the bits from Carcassonne. You can download German rules (PDF) for Meeple Stapeln from the HiG website.

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Board Game: Village
• And for a completely different take on gaining publicity through unusual means, here's a song about Village, created by eggertspiele's Alfred Viktor Schulz to celebrate that game's 2012 Kennerspiel des Jahres nomination.


From gallery of W Eric Martin
Happy Meeple is a relatively new online gaming site that features four licensed games: Lost Cities, Finito!, Level X and Keltis: Das Kartenspiel. Or rather, it features the first two games, which you can play after going through a tutorial and "earning" your white starter meeple, and the second two games which can be unlocked by paying gold coins that you earn by selling the wares that you win by playing the other two games. Plus, you must pay food for each game you play, and you earn food based on your time online and the town structure that you build with the materials you earn. If anyone's looking for an online gaming time sink, this might suit you well!

• On the blog Games With Two, an unnamed author writes about the Cody Jones theory of game collecting and how it's applied at the GWT home. The theory in brief, with light edits:

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[Y]ou should never have more of one game of a single type. For example, you want only one deck-building game in your collection; you don't need Dominion and Thunderstone – just one of them. The idea is that when it comes to playing games, most of the time you are going to pick the game that you like more, especially if they are very similar games.

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