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The board game Calico is very deceptive. If someone draws you in with a theme like sewing a nice quilt to attract cats then you’d absolutely be forgiven for imagining a chilled out and gentle game. However, it’s actually a really tricky tile-laying puzzle and exactly the kind of game that I love. The ruleset […]
When I first started getting into modern board games (over a decade ago at university!), my group of friends had a few that we played again and again – being poor students we weren’t exactly grabbing the latest releases or adding to the collection frequently. So when one of the group got a copy of […]
I’ve talked and written a lot about video games, but I love a really wide variety of games and play of all sorts. Video games of course, but also arcades, bowling, laser tag, table top RPG games, karaoke, escape rooms… the list goes on. In fact just yesterday my partner and I went out for […]
A friend recently gifted me the game Strange Horticulture. It’s a puzzle game about plants with a story about the occult and naturally, as the local provider of strange botanicals, you find yourself becoming intertwined in the mysteries as they unfold. The game is told over the course of 16 days plus an epilogue, and […]
Recently, I took a moment to be vulnerable with folks and talk about my writer’s block and how it was caused (at least initially) by Death Stranding. I was really heartened by the response and someone suggested that I just essentially publish my notes because “anything can be a piece”. I liked that idea a […]
I’m going to state this right up front – I am a brand ambassador for Big Potato Games, and that’s what has led me to write this blog post. I’ve been thinking about party games a lot more than I usually would (which would be at a party/gathering, I guess!). I’m sure if you’re a […]
Here’s a complete list of mods being used in my Skyrim streams, including my fundraiser for Gendered Intelligence. I’m playing on the Skyrim Special Edition which includes all the DLC (Dawnguard, Dragonborn, Hearthfire) and using SKSESE (Skyrim Special Edition Script Extender). This is a dependency for many mods. I’m using Mod Organiser 2 to manage […]