This is the second part of my diary of Tabletop Scotland 2018. You can find the first part here and it’d be a good idea to read that first because we’re going to leap right back into it! The Seminar… By this point it was around 2:40pm and we had…
Category: Editorial
Pauline’s Tabletop Scotland 2018 Diary (part one)
I was looking forward to Tabletop Scotland as it had the potential to fill a gap that existed in our part of the country. We need things to take out minds off the grim state of the world in which we live – all those wildling attacks for example and…
Michael’s Review of Tabletop Scotland 2018
I was expecting Tabletop Scotland to be a good event. I wasn’t really expecting it to suddenly leapfrog to the top of my, admittedly modest, convention hitlist. That’s what happened though. We found an event small enough to be welcoming, yet large enough to be exciting. A programme of events…
How do we make accessibility sexier?
Accessibility has an image problem, and it’s perhaps the biggest barrier to progress that hasn’t been seriously confronted by those of us working within the field. We all know it, but it’s the uncomfortable kind of knowledge that just makes things harder when we confront it. It’s so much easier…
Some Honest Reflections on Patreon
I don’t think I’ve ever been quite so anxious as when I pressed the button on launching our Patreon. Job interviews don’t phase me. My PhD Viva was a source of some temporary butterflies but was pretty much fine. Buying a house and getting six figures in debt was a…
Our Advice for UKGE 2018
The UK Games Expo is coming up very soon. Our experiences with it last year were mixed, but overall it was more of a hit than a miss. We’re making plans this year to try and ensure that the baseline level of fun we have is much higher. We learned…
We’ve launched our Patreon!
You can’t possibly miss it because it’s plastered all over the right hand side of every post now… but we just started up our Patreon and BOY AM I ANXIOUS ABOUT IT. This is the first time I’ve ever gone to the community to help fund anything I have ever…
The New Boardgame Journalism (with apologies to Kieron Gillen)
An occasional topic of conversation with which I engage on Twitter, Facebook and other platforms relates to the norms of journalism in game related spaces – specifically, what I’ve come to think of as the New Boardgame Journalism. All apologies to Kieron Gillen for that, because I undoubtedly massacre his…
The Ethics of Affiliation
I think… I think… this might be my last post on the ethics of reviewing for a while. Those of you who read the site regularly will be aware this is a topic I discuss a lot. I can’t help it – much as with my borderline obsession with the…
The Inevitability of Favourable Board Game Coverage
One of the points I made in the last editorial was that, generally speaking, people that run board game blogs and sites are somewhat loathe to publish negative reviews. That’s not a universal trait and in many respects it depends on just how prolific an outlet’s output can be. The…