SPACE-BIFF!

Stop whatever you’re doing.

Ah, Captain’s Chair.

When she isn’t pretending to be a dragon, my seven-year-old pretends to be a cat.

Imagine me in a real pickle sandwich.

I’ve never been to Machu Picchu, but it was the site that demonstrated to me at an uncomfortably young age that history wasn’t just one thing but many, and that those many things were subject to a wide range of interpretations.

On not-so-rare occasions, I get to play board games before they’re fully polished.

It’s almost too obvious to state aloud, but there’s a lot to be said for the games we actually play.

Of the handful of things I appreciate about Pax Playground, the most significant is the way it reminds me of recess.

When Cole Wehrle first unveiled An Infamous Traffic way back in 2016, it was a scrappy little devil.

There’s undoubted utility to a bag of holding, but I always imagine everything jumbling together like loose chicken parts.

CMYK is on a hot streak.

All I play anymore is trick-taking games.

Upland & Prairie is troublesome.

BABA IS YOU is one of the most mind-bending puzzle video games of recent memory.

For its size, I would classify Brute Fort as maximalist.

Board games aren’t always very good at themes.

All I play anymore is trick-takers.

UFO 50 was one of the coolest gaming artifacts of the past few years, a collection of fifty unique video games by Derek Yu, Jon Perry, and a handful of other developers that pitched itself as a digital excavation of a long-lost 8-bit console.

If you haven’t heard of Baba Is You, grab hold of the nearest guardrail, because you’re about to be hit by a wrecking ball of descriptors.

I owe Abroad an apology.

I don’t know what to make of Pond.

Circle of Conflict is a really bad title.

What recourse is there for the public when their leaders will not listen, their employers have broken the compacts that bind society, and their bellies gnaw with hunger?

The smallest but most persistent indignity of our current digital age is the way we have all, every one of us, been press-ganged into service as human CAPTCHAs.

At long last, we’re nearing the end.

Ask my twelve-year-old about her favorite games and she’ll list a bunch of titles she consistently beats me at.

For today’s Space-Cast!

Every so often — although not as often as I’d like — a publisher will release a more affordable version of a beloved game, and it’s always interesting to see where they’re able to shave a buck off the original production.

Hench is a strange, lovely beast.