Familiar Moments in Games

Obviously board games are great - the things themselves, that is. Amazing art, the beautiful simplicity of a great mechanic, an elegant scoring system, a stunningly-sculpted miniature, the texture of a card or piece…. and man, that new game smell. But of course games are really about people. The friends and enemies you play with, and the times you have. We could start off our blog with a game diary about how Beastly Bust-Up came together - how we built the rules, how we found the fun and how we made - and keep making - mistakes. I’m sure that would be great for one or two of our best friends and Ben’s mum and our paid hangers on, but instead we thought it might be more interesting to focus a bit more on people, particularly the stories and moments that make up an evening pushing bits of cardboard and plastic around. So here’s a series on moments - on being in the lead, and being realising you’re out of the race, on messing about, and on planning ahead - and a few more.