Short form interviews to catch up with interesting people in the hobby.
Preparing for a convention like SPIEL Essen, I always enjoy browsing all the pre-con reporting, anticipation lists, and pre-order threads. While I did my research for SPIEL Essen 2024, I came upon something I hadn’t expected at all and to be honest hadn’t thought I would need until I found it: a scenario book for …
Read more “Table Talk With Joshua Acosta – Roads & Boats: Book of Scenarios Volume 1”
Since last year’s conversation for Origin Stories: Brass was so much fun, I once again caught up with Martin at SPIEL Essen 2024. I was interested to learn why there were suddenly so many releases of his at the fair. Also that very morning, I had played my very first session of Steam Power, a …
One of the things I was most looking forward to going to SPIEL Essen 2024 was to once again be able to chat with Vangelis of Hegemonic Project Games … and demo their upcoming Kickstarter World Order of course! Vangelis and me had talked for Origin Stories: Hegemony as well as did an impromptu interview …
Read more “Table Talk With Vangelis Bagiartakis – World Order”
Lately, I’ve gotten a bit tired of the typical modern Euro: mechanically solid, great art, but no real theme or story being told. In the last years, I found myself wondering more and more often “why should I even be playing this?” as combo-heavy, low-interaction games kept coming to my table that wouldn’t produce any …
Read more “Table Talk With Tomáš Holek – Galileo Galilei, SETI, Tea Garden”
I guess I’m inventing a new-for-me format here: “Table Talk” 😀 While my usual interview format Origin Stories is based on 90-120 min conversations that are well researched and in-depth on a single game or topic, Table Talk will be shorter 20-30 min conversations to catch up with interesting people in the hobby. While being …