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Links: Brathwaite (Again) on Train, Voting Opens for the DSP & Cthulhu Warms Your Face

Links: Brathwaite (Again) on Train, Voting Opens for the DSP & Cthulhu Warms Your Face
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• From now through July 31, 2012, you can vote on the games you feel should receive the Deutscher Spiele Preis, the annual award run by Spiel organizer Friedhelm Merz Verlag and voted on by gamers around the world. Click on "Hier geht's zum Abstimmformular" to cast your vote, with your #1 game receiving five points, #2 game four points, and so on. You can view previous DSP winners on that website for a taste of what the voting audience prefers.

• New Zealand gaming site Seriously Board has posted a 38-minute interview with designer Martin Wallace, where among other things he discloses that he's moving to New Zealand.

• At TEDxPhoenix, Brenda Brathwaite talks about her artistic project/game design Train and, according to the YouTube description, "what it means to design games that can truly teach us culture, and change our perceptions about the events that have molded our society":


From gallery of W Eric Martin
• While Toy Vault publishes games, such as the newly released Abaddon from Richard Borg, it also sells toys, including several that clearly fall on the Geek end of the scale. The most ridiculous item yet, however, might be the Cthulhu Knitted Ski Mask, now looking for funding on Kickstarter.

• Don Dehm and Scott Forster at Pulp Gamer Prime have posted an interview with High School Drama! designer Boyan Radakovich, who also happens to be Associate Producer of Wil Wheaton's new web series TableTop.

• Nate Straight has a fun blog post here on BGG titled "Ten Exciting Designers Doing Exciting Things", and while I don't think he's referring to Néstor Romeral Andrés' hand jive, I could be wrong...

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