#Geoff Engelstein

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Friday Night Shots - Mechanic Surprises

Friday Night Shots - Mechanic Surprises @FFGames @BitewingGames @gmtgames @wehrlegig @AMIGO_GamesUS

Welcome back to another Friday! The year is moving on, week by week, but I’m happy to have you spend at least a bit of your Friday night with me (or, more likely, your Saturday morning, but beggars can’t be choosers!). Belly up to the bar (where did that phrase come from, anyway?) and I’ll get you a drink. I have some Kool-Aid if you don’t want anything stronger. Let me just turn down the…

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Tabletop Game Designers Association

The Tabletop Game Designers Association is a brand new 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Tabletop Game Designers of all types of tabletop games, including board games, role playing games, card games, miniature games, and others, whether mass market, specialty, or hobby. They are launching today!

The founding board members are trustworthy and talented board game designers who have published successful games in the industry. They include Geoff Engelstein, Elizabeth Hargrave, and Sen-Foong Lim. We are happy to support their efforts and this new organization!

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Star Trek: Super-Skill Pinball

Original Release: 2022

Developer: Geoff Engelstein

Publisher: WizKids

Platform: Board Game

A roll-and-write pinball game with a Star Trek theme. Super-Skill Pinball is a series of similar games, and the Star Trek one brings its own twists.

Super-Skill Pinball is one of those games that sounds very complicated when trying to learn it, but is simple when you get the hand of it. Each turn, two dice a rolled and you pick one of them to “move” your pinball. You start at the top of the pinball machine and have to drop down to a lower level onto a space matching your chosen dice, which you then fill in.

Once you reach the flippers, you can then launch the ball to a space that matches the colour of the flipper, dropping down again in later turns. If there are no spaces below you that you can reach, you lose your ball. The game is played over three rounds (with one exception) and each board has unique features.

Starfleet Academy is the basic board, with one unique aspect being the “Kobayashi Maru” section which needs a roll of 7 on the dice to complete (there is a way to complete it using other parts of the board).

The Trouble With Tribbles is all about managing tribbles – you’ll keep track of your current tribbles on your backplate. You can manipulate how many tribbles you have and even transport them to other players.

Lower Decks plays differently to the others – there are no rounds. Instead, the entire board flips for every 10 points you gain. This one is a little bit broken in that you can create an infinite loop to make the game last for hours.

Borg Attack has you preparing for a Borg Invasion for two rounds, unlocking ships, torpedoes and modulations. In round three, you use what you have unlocked to fight a Borg cube, starting from the bottoms and working up to the number 6 at the top. The borg attacks your ships as the pinball bounces back and forth between your fleet and the borg.

This is a fun solo game, but I don’t think it works as well with others – due to how the game works, people will be finished and have to wait around for everyone else to finish theirs – which on some boards can be a while. Having to wait for everyone to decide what to do on their turn (everyone uses the same dice roll each turn) is also frustrating.

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Fat Abomination Vs Geoff Engelstein

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Preorder Versailles 1919 from GMT Games

In Versailles 1919, players will represent the four major powers – all looking to forward their own agendas – in negotiation following the 1918 armistice.

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Sigh. With Geoff Engelstein gone and the podcast hosted by Gil Hova and Emma Larkins, the Ludology podcast has become ~75% wokeness. Mind you, Geoff is also very liberal, as you can easily determine from Twitter. But he actually wanted to talk about game design from a mechanical perspective on his game design podcast , so the podcast was great. And it just isn't any more.

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Geoff’s Law: Your game is more complicated than you think it is, even when you take into account Geoff’s Law.

Geoff Engelstein

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https://gameosity.com/2017/10/31/gdc-2018-announces-board-game-design-day-talks/

Board Game Design Day is returning to the Game Developers Conference (GDC, the world’s largest professional game industry event)! The exciting gaming conference will be host to many talks and sessions on behind-the-scenes of board game design. Fantasy Flight Games’ Andrew Fischer will be d...

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Pit Crew tabletop game review... 

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The Expanse Board Game - Coming Soon!

The Expanse Board Game - Coming Soon! #games #boardgames

The upcoming board game The Expanse, based on the Syfy hit television series by the same name, will be released this June as announced by WizKids president Justin Ziran. Geoff Engelstein, whose credits include the popular board games Space Cadets, Dragon and the Flagon and the upcoming Fog of War, designed the new game. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the authors of the best selling original book…

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Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Coming to Kickstarter

Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition Coming to Kickstarter @strongholdgames @FryxGames

The other shoe has finally dropped! A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about a “Terraforming Mars-esque” game that noted designer Geoff Engelstein teased on Twitter. And now it’s arrived, or least the Kickstarter launch page has. Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition is so new that it’s not even on Boardgame Geek yet, but Man Vs Meeple broke news about it last night on their Youtube channel in…

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*Top 5 * For my first Top 5 list I thought it would be appropriate to feature games that have been hitting the table at a high frequency lately and those are Roll & Write games. Some of these are in my all time favorites list as well but thought I'd specify Roll and writes so I can talk about my favorite ones in my collection. Starting with my #5 Super Skill Pinball 4-Cade by @wizkidsgames and designed by Geoff Engelstein This is a great Roll and write where you are rolling dice and using the numbers to ricochet you ball(s) around a diverse series of thematic pinball tables. You have themes like the bigtop circus, cyberpunk hacking, fantasy dragon slaying, and Disco dancing. Each table has unique mechanisms and ways to rack up points. While this game can be played 1- 4, I prefer it solo as sometimes one players game could end early if they weren't careful with their choices. If you are a fan of pinball and Roll & Write games the. You owe it to yourself to check this one out. (at Wonder Lake, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccf16CgLNp-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ludology 268 - Pinball Wizard

Gil and Sen are delighted to welcome Geoff Engelstein back to the show to discuss the making of his hit roll-and-write game Super-Skill Pinball. What calls did he make when designing the game, and how much did it change from his original vision?

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Versailles 1919 | Unboxing and First Look

Jeff unboxes and takes a first look at the new political game designed by Mark Herman and Geoff Engelstein, Versailles 1919, from GMT Games.

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Geoff Engelstein talks about how the industry has changed (audio)

https://breakingintoboardgames.libsyn.com/breaking-into-board-games-episode-130-geoff-engelstein

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The Expanse, de Geoff Engelstein, chez @wizkidsgames avec quelques modules de l'extension Doors & Corners! Très bon, très violent avec l'usage de la protomolécule. Que du bonheur. #jeudeplateau #jds #jeudesociete #jeudesociété #boardgames (à Cenon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B84OVNphJGq/?igshid=1s3id00yf4bhc