The story behind the siege game Freedom!, by the game designer Vangelis Bagiartakis, continues. Following the first part detailing the inspiration, the definition of the kind of game, and the history to be included in it, here he talks about the second step: to put things down and start designing how the game would play. Military map showing the Messolonghi area at the time of the …
Europe Divided, the strategic, modern history board game of politics, influence, and tactical conflict published by PHALANX Games and designed by David Thompson and Chris Marling is now reaching stores. The game was successfully funded in mid-2019 on Kickstarter, and at that time Thompson shared its story on BoardGameGeek in a Designer’s Diary, with occasional inputs from his design partner Marling. Now we repost it as …
The dramatic history of the siege of the Greek holy city Messolonghi by Ottoman forces during the Greek War of Independence is revived in a game: Freedom!, published by PHALANX Games and created by Vangelis Bagiartakis, a Greek game designer and developer who lives in Athens and has worked on more than 30 titles, including “Among the Stars”, “Dice City”, “Fields of Green”, “Kitchen Rush”, and …
Welcome back to Discovering Alone. In the previous articles, we introduced the game and described its background story. Now, let’s learn more about the game’s development, by (who can tell this story better) the game designers Andrea Crespi and Lorenzo Silva!. Andrea Crespi (AC): The development of Alone has been long and difficult. We knew that when we started working on it of course, since it …
Cthulhu Mythos: new set of Monster vs Heroes. Monsters vs Heroes is a fun and crazy game where characters from mystery and horror stories duel with cards. Players secretly join one of the factions – Monsters or Heroes – by taking a random faction card at the start of the game, and even if players belong to the same faction, there are no teams – game …
