UPDATE: Although you may have missed the Kickstarter project, GameKnight will be offering these chips for sale in the near future (May\June 2012). If you want to be alerted to availability, just send an email to alerts@gameknight.com and put GameChips in the subject line. GameKnight has just launched it’s first kickstarter project. Follow the link to find out all about this great new accessory for board gamers. My project is to create GameChips, a customized set of poker chips to meet the needs of board gamers. Many board games use some form of game currency. The problem is that currency components included with games range from ok to terrible with some rare exceptions. Here’s some of the in-box components: Cardboard tokens: Usually you need to punch these out yourself. They get worn out pretty fast, and sometimes they get torn when you are trying to punch them. Paper money: This is probably the worst type of game currency. It rips, tears, and creases. Try taking a game to the beach and watch it fly around. Plastic chips: A little better than paper or cardboard, but these are often very thin and difficult to stack or pick up. Metal coins: Usually these don’t work that well because they are too small to stack. Most don’t have a denomination printed on them. Poker players and casinos found the right solution. They realized that the best replacement for currency is the poker chip. Not only are poker chips fun to handle, but they
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Dungeon Petz Review
Dungeon Petz is a recent game by veteran designer Vlaada Chvátil. His design credits include: Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization, Galaxy Trucker, Space Alert, Dungeon Lords, and Mage Knight. My Wednesday night gaming group brought this to the table recently so here is a brief review based on the initial play. As with other games, I’ll rank the game on a variety of aspects, and provide an overall rating. Description Become the leader of an imp family that has just started a new business – breeding and selling petz. Sound simple and safe? Well, we forgot to mention that those petz are for Dungeon Lords. This means magical, playful, sometimes angry monsters that constantly desire attention and at the very moment you want them to demonstrate their qualities to buyers they are sick or they poo. Sometimes you are even glad that you got rid of them – but the profit is unbelievable. Dungeon Petz is a standalone game set in the Dungeon Lords universe created in the board game of the same name. The game consists of several rounds in which players use unusual worker placement mechanisms (players simultaneously prepare different-sized groups of imps in order to play sooner than others) to prepare themselves for the uneasy task of raising creature cubs and pleasing their different needs represented by cards in order to sell them as grown scary creatures to Dungeon Lords. In the meantime they also attend various contests in which they show off their pets, scoring additional
Twilight Imperium Strategy Guide Launched
GameKnight has just added a bunch of Twilight Imperium resources to the site including a comprehensive strategy guide. If you’re a fan of TI, head over and check it out. Special thanks Stefan Sasse for providing permission to repost this excellent strategy guide originally posted to boardgamegeek.com
