https://www.boardgamequest.com Board Game Reviews, News and More Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:26:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 38014872 https://www.boardgamequest.com/sherwin-matthews-lead-designer-of-elden-ring-interview/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/sherwin-matthews-lead-designer-of-elden-ring-interview/#respond Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:09:11 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=51261 I love board games. I love video games. I love coop games. I had a chance to play Horizon Zero Dawn, and while I went in with low expectations, I enjoyed the game. I looked up the designer, Sherwin Matthews, on BGG. First game? Not bad! Monster Hunter is one of my favorite video games. […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/sherwin-matthews-lead-designer-of-elden-ring-interview/feed/ 0 51261 https://www.boardgamequest.com/jamie-jolly-designer-of-oathsworn-interview/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/jamie-jolly-designer-of-oathsworn-interview/#respond Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:03:38 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=50918 I had the pleasure of meeting Jamie Jolly, designer of Oathsworn, at Gen Con 2022. I wanted to back Oathsworn but did not have the finances at the time the original Kickstarter was live. I knew I wanted to try the game and there were limited pledges on sale (if you were lucky enough to […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/jamie-jolly-designer-of-oathsworn-interview/feed/ 0 50918 https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-the-queens-dilemma-and-the-kings-dilemma-game-designers/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-the-queens-dilemma-and-the-kings-dilemma-game-designers/#respond Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:11:41 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=51036 Once there was “The King’s Dilemma”… Now, we look forward to the sequel, “The Queen’s Dilemma”. Both games are published by Horrible Guild and are co-designed by Hjalmar Hach and Lorenzo Silva. “The King’s Dilemma” is a legacy narrative game that introduced a unique Dilemma Card System mechanism that is exceptionally original and engaging. The […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-the-queens-dilemma-and-the-kings-dilemma-game-designers/feed/ 0 51036 https://www.boardgamequest.com/attending-essen-spiel-an-interview-from-magic-omens/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/attending-essen-spiel-an-interview-from-magic-omens/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:52:41 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=50284 Magic Omens has invited Board Game Quest to share our views, advice, and experiences regarding attending Essen SPIEL. Magic Omens is a local game store in Zagreb, Croatia. They are helping to grow the local gaming community by organizing daily TCG & board game events and writing cool educational articles and resources for tabletop gamers. Magic […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/attending-essen-spiel-an-interview-from-magic-omens/feed/ 1 50284 https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-elizabeth-hargrave-designer-of-wingspan-and-now-the-fox-experiment/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-elizabeth-hargrave-designer-of-wingspan-and-now-the-fox-experiment/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:59:28 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=50127 There could be no better moment to have an informal chat with the talented designer  Elizabeth Hargrave, who created Wingspan. Elizabeth Hargrave games, Tussie Mussie, Mariposas, and Wingspan, are widely regarded as examples of great talent as a game designer. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I have enjoyed having a friendly chat […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-elizabeth-hargrave-designer-of-wingspan-and-now-the-fox-experiment/feed/ 0 50127 https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-kevin-burkhardsmeier-of-game-toppers/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-kevin-burkhardsmeier-of-game-toppers/#respond Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:21:37 +0000 https://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=24858 When I wandered the exhibit hall at Gen Con, I stopped by the Mayday games booth to check out the new games they had this year. To my surprise, there was something else at the booth that I didn’t expect to see. They had a sunken gaming table for all of their demos to be […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-kevin-burkhardsmeier-of-game-toppers/feed/ 0 24858 https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-game-designer-matt-leacock/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-game-designer-matt-leacock/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:44:59 +0000 http://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=14221 Recently we had a chance to talk a little with veteran game designer Matt Leacock. You may have heard of a few of his titles: Pandemic, Roll Through the Ages and Forbidden Island. It’s no great leap to say that Matt is quite the accomplished game designer. With his newest title, Thunderbirds, now in funding […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-game-designer-matt-leacock/feed/ 0 14221 https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-ryan-bruns-president-of-mayday-games/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-ryan-bruns-president-of-mayday-games/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:49:34 +0000 http://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=12829 While I was at GenCon 2014, I had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan Bruns from Mayday Games. Mayday Games is well known for their amazingly diverse collection of card sleeves and other gaming supplies, but in recent years have expanded to dexterity (Coconuts & Click Clack Lumberjack) and card games (Get Bit! & […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-ryan-bruns-president-of-mayday-games/feed/ 1 12829 https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-ignacy-trzewiczek/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-ignacy-trzewiczek/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:55:09 +0000 http://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=11373 I recently had a chance to chat a bit with board game designer and publisher, Ignacy Trzewiczek. Despite beating out even Corey Konieczka for having one of the hardest names to pronounce, Ignacy is fairly well known around the board game world. He founded Portal Games (Neuroshima Hex, Stronghold, Robinson Crusoe), has been designing table […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-ignacy-trzewiczek/feed/ 3 11373 https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-board-game-artist-xavier-naiade-durin/ https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-board-game-artist-xavier-naiade-durin/#respond Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:37:04 +0000 http://www.boardgamequest.com/?p=9213 I’ve recently been hooked on the amazing progress of the Tokaido Collecter’s Edition Kickstarter campaign. With only a couple of days to go (at the time of this writing), the game has already pass $400,000 in support. I already own a copy of Tokaido, but I’m still backing the collector’s edition. One of the reasons […]]]> https://www.boardgamequest.com/interview-with-board-game-artist-xavier-naiade-durin/feed/ 0 9213