Essen 2012 - Wrong Chemistry
Designer Tony Cimino from Mage Company walks us through the basics of Wrong Chemistry, a fast, fun game of molecular manipulation. Players move tiles and pieces to create basic chemical elements.
Dec 22, 2012•5 min
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Essen 2012 - Ted Alspach
Game designer Ted Alspach chats about three new releases from Bezier Games: Mutant Meeples, Suburbia, and Enter The Passage.
Dec 22, 2012•7 min
Essen 2012 - TableTop
Tabletop Producer Boyan Radakovich chats about plans for Season 2 and his plans for an international game day coming in 2013.
Dec 22, 2012•8 min
Essen 2012 - Stronghold Games
Stephen Buonocore walks us through a bevvy of new releases from Stronghold including: Crude: The Oil Game, CO2, Space Cadets, Article 27, Core Worlds: Galactic Orders, and Revolver 2.
Dec 22, 2012•11 min
Essen 2012 - Sheepdogs of Pendleton Hill
Max Michael from Stratamax Games dicusses their latest release: Sheepdogs of Pendleton Hill. Players assemble and move flocks with different colored sheep through pastures hoping to avoid the wolf and score the most points at the top of the hill.
Dec 22, 2012•11 min
Essen 2012 - Scott Alden - Boardgamegeek
Scott Alden ("Aldie") gives us a behind the scenes tour of the technology used to provide Boardgamegeek's live streaming coverage at Essen.
Dec 22, 2012•13 min
Essen 2012 - Ravensburger
Michaela Magin chats about three new titles from Ravensburger: one for children (Wettstreit im Hexenwald), one for gamers (Saint Malo), and one for parties (Make 'n Break: Party).
Dec 22, 2012•6 min
Essen 2012 - Press Event
There is a Press Event the day before the game fair opens. Publishers large and small display their games to an eager crowd of journalists. 800 new games made their debut at Essen. Here's a small sample of the hundreds of games released this year.
Dec 22, 2012•17 min
Essen 2012 - Plato Magazine
Didier Delhez talks about the new worldwide edition of Plato Magazine. Plato covers the world of board games from a truly international perspective, including interviews, reviews and features stories with designers, artists and publishers in the industry.
Dec 22, 2012•6 min
Essen 2012 - Northwest Passage Adventure
Jaime Vega and Diego Martin discuss Gen X Games' latest release: Northwest Passage Adventure. Use your ship and your wits to discover the Northwest Passage before other Arctic explorers.
Dec 22, 2012•6 min
Essen 2012 - Martin Wallace
Game designer Martin Wallace discusses P.I., Doctor Who: The Card Game, and his new venture into Kickstarter with Moongha Invaders.
Dec 22, 2012•26 min
Essen 2012 - Kosmonauts
Gil d'Orey introduces Kosmonauts, the latest title from Mesa Board Games. Kosmonauts is a rocket race around the solar system with players programming their rocket to visit each planet.
Dec 22, 2012•7 min
Essen 2012 - Jactalea
Timothee Leroy discusses three games: Mana, an abstract strategy game with leather pieces. Docker, a puzzle game about manuevering shipping containers. And Blue Lion, a pattern building tile laying game about jewel thieves.
Dec 22, 2012•8 min
Essen 2012 - HUCH & Friends
Stephanie Schulz introduces us to three new titles: Voll ins Schwarze (a wagering trivia game), Nox (a set collecting card game) and Wolf Im Schafspelz (a speed dice game).
Dec 22, 2012•9 min
Essen 2012 - Goblins Inc.
Designer Filip Neduk talks about Goblins, Inc. a new game from Czech Games Edition. Teams of goblins scramble to build giant robots battling to become the next big Boss.
Dec 22, 2012•4 min
Essen 2012 - Fryx Games
Swedish publisher Enoch Fryexlius shows us mass market versions of two previous titles: Wilderness and Space Station. Then, we discuss Brawling Barons, a strategy card game where players must build, upgrade, and defend a village.
Dec 22, 2012•11 min
Essen 2012 - Freidemann Friese
Noted designer Friedemann Friese chats about the development of his latest title Copycat, a game that "steals" its mechanics from several other well known games.
Dec 22, 2012•10 min
Essen 2012 - European Society of Board Game Collectors
The European Society of Board Game Collectors is an organization devoted to spreading their love of games far and wide. Each year the group selects a theme and creates an exhibit to showcase the many different games that reflect this theme in some way.
Dec 22, 2012•13 min
Essen 2012 - Eggertspiele
Andreas discusses two new releases that draw their inspiration from Asia. From China, we have Qin, an abstract strategy game from Reiner Knizia. And from Japan we have Yedo, a worker placement game set in the early years of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Dec 22, 2012•14 min
Essen 2012 - Czech Games Edition
Petr Murmak discusses the development and manufacturing challenges behind Tzolk'in: The Mayan Calendar. In addition, we learn about Another Big Expansion for Galaxy Trucker and Dungeon Lords: Festival Season.
Dec 22, 2012•20 min
Essen 2012 - Columba
Designer Laurent Escoffier talks about his latest game Columba, a team driven tile laying game about falcons, pigeons, and dovecoats.
Dec 22, 2012•4 min
Essen 2012 - Bruno Cathala
Noted game designer Bruno Cathala discusses three new games: Button Up, Okiya, and Shadows Over Camelot: The Card Game.
Dec 22, 2012•12 min
Essen 2012 - Artipia Games - Briefcase
Designers Nikolas and Sotirios talk about the development of their game Briefcase, a deck-building resource management game where players create their own business empire.
Dec 22, 2012•7 min
Essen 2012 - Artipia Games - Among the Stars
Designer Vangelis Bagiartakis discusses Among the Stars, a game where players compete to build the best space station.
Dec 22, 2012•5 min
Essen 2012 - Antonis Papantoniou
Artist Antonis Papantoniou discusses his career in the game industry and the differences between creating artwork for board games and video games.
Dec 22, 2012•10 min
Essen 2012 - Andreas Steiger
Andreas Steiger talks about the development process behind his first game: Targi, a 2012 Kennerspiel des Jahres nominee.
Dec 22, 2012•8 min
Essen 2012 - Andreas Pelikan
Game designer Andreas Pelikan walks us through the basics of his new card game Meins (co-designed with Alexander Pfister). Meins is a game about crazy collectors gathering obscure and quirky artifacts in hopes of presenting the most valuable exhibit.
Dec 22, 2012•8 min
Essen 2012 - Amigo
Bernd Keller gives us an in-depth look at On the Nuts (a press-your-luck dice game with wooden squirrels) and Bohn to Be Wild (a 15th anniversary special edition of the bean trading classic Bohnanza).
Dec 22, 2012•19 min
Essen 2012 - AEG
AEG's Todd Rowland gives us the scoop on Guildhall, a set collecting game about medieval professions. We also discuss the Tempest series of board games.
Dec 22, 2012•13 min
Essen 2012 - Abacusspiele
Mattias Wagner chats about Abacusspiele's new edition of Hanabi, a crazy, clue-driven, co-operative card game. We also discuss a fast, fun dice game version of Zooloretto.
Dec 22, 2012•13 min
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