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After playing Euphoria recently, and after reading a blog post about worker placement games, I decided to see how quickly could come up with a worker placement game and create a first draft. I was able to come up with a unique mechanic (to me) as well as…
Continue readingTapestry: noun. used in reference to an intricate or complex combination of things or sequence of events. Tapestry is a board game published by Stonemaier. It is a promoted as a civilization game but it is more of a civilization themed game. This is not my observation but…
Continue readingI needed a way to distribute a holiday gift getting guide so here it is… Pax Pamir 2nd Edition
Continue readingI don’t usually write about personal stuff. Almost no one reads my blog and those that do are probably interested in the Linkage program or are curious about… the Linkage program. I also suspect that I get a few reads of programming posts now and then (I actually…
Continue readingAbout a week ago, I played my worst game of Pipeline. I posted about it. The night before last, I played my best game ever. I’m not sure what external forces might have made the difference other than this recent game being a 1-on-1 game in my own…
Continue readingLast night, I played my worst game of Pipeline. I had a good thing going with a machine to run three pipes and multiple contracts for low-grade oil. That got me some income early but I never managed to leverage that into something better. Pipeline is a board…
Continue readingApple did a fairly nice job with the @IBAction mechanism. It’s easy to add code to handle a menu item action in a macOS program. It’s the same with iOS for button taps and other UI actions. But with the menu items, there is a severe oversight that…
Continue readingChampions of Midguard I played Champions of Midgard yesterday. It was the first time I played it and I did fairly well for most of the game. I had the point lead, including all stated points on cards, etc., for much of the game. I came in third,…
Continue readingI hope no one ever thinks that the Tabletop Score Calculator is just a physical calculator that is too big to stick in your pocket! The Tabletop Score Calculator is an iOS app I’m working on that will have virtual score sheets for various tabletop games. After another…
Continue readingI’m working on a board game scoring app. It’s an iOS app because I frankly don’t like writing Java for Android. This is an iOS app written in Swift and it runs on iOS 10 and newer. The score calculator uses some basic iOS UI elements like a…
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