Tim and I played Terraforming Mars and Antiquity. There was only two of us again (a few long time players seem to have disappeared) but 1-on-1 is a great way to play some of these games. Here’s the play-by-play action from the days game playing: Terraforming Mars I…
Continue readingAntiquity is a game by Splotter, a Dutch board game publisher. The game has a bit more depth and breadth than most board games I’ve played. I’ll compare it to some other games in later paragraphs. First, I want to describe the first game of it that I…
Continue readingTim and I were at the Biltmore as usual. A new player, Eric, showed up early and we headed to the Tahoe Biltmore private dining room (inside the closed-during-the-week Steak House restaurant). We started playing Terraforming Mars, a favorite for me and Tim. After a few generations (rounds),…
Continue readingCanals is a card game I invented in my sleep a new nights ago. I awoke slowly from a nonsense card gaming dream to find that one of the “rules” in the dream made sense. Here’s what I cam up with: Two players represent architects who are giving…
Continue readingI was just reading a thread on Board Game Geek and noticed someone use the term “Eurobore.” There are two large classifications for games based loosely on things like theme, strategy, luck, and other gaming factors. The Ameritrash games have players relying on luck and have strong themes….
Continue readingI was debugging a new feature in the Linkage program and the program seemed to hang. I couldn’t select anything. I thought it was a symptom of debugging but now a user has reported the same problem, I think. I’m trying to figure out what I did recently…
Continue readingI’m working on a adding a text message under the dimensions entry box int he tool bar. When you click on a connector and the text box shows x and y coordinates, the text under the box will show “x, y coordinates” or something like that. If you…
Continue readingI updated the site so you can now get Linkage 3.7.10 from the Linkage download page. This version has that bug fix that I reported a while ago.
Continue readingSomeone asked me to add this to the program itself, and I’ll do that sometime. For now, here’s a playlist of Linkage tutorial on YouTube that I created: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGxa5y5etMwAY238yKu1orXTnzD9h5nL_ There are two or three simple tutorials that someone else made. You can find them doing a search. Since…
Continue readingI think I finally found a bug in the Linkage software that has been, well, bugging me, for months or even years. When deleting a link that has multiple fastened elements, sometimes the Linkage program would crash. The bug only happened intermittently because the order of links and…
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