We’re currently in the position of having to do some heavy-duty purging of possessions. Books, DVDs, rare art-works pilfered in daring heists across the continent – they all have to be abandoned in line with our new life situation. More on that in a later posting – it’s not the…
Category: Special Feature
Tabletop Scotland 2019 and the Great Cull
We were at Tabletop Scotland this weekend, and my plan for the second of our Patreon funded editorial/special features was going to be a diary of the event. Unfortunately, life intervened and instead of having fun at a convention I’d been looking forward to for months I came down with…
Ten Modern Games to Replace Classic Games
Many of us seem to think that we’re doing something unusual by being board-gamers in this day and age. I understand why. It’s kind of weirdly retro and largely a hobby that isn’t particularly likely to be common amongst the other people in our lives. There’s a well-known saying in…
Key Product Features
This is the main ‘splash’ of the UK Amazon product page for Monopoly. Note that it’s broken up into two main parts – the image, and the game details. Pride of prominence on the right hand side is given to bullet points that are used to give some targeted data…
Board Games with Great Lessons for Accessible Design
I know it looks like it, but this isn’t a top ten list. Yes, it’s a list. Yes it contains ten(ish) games. Yes it’s in the template that I’ve used for previous top tens on the site. But there’s an important reason why this doesn’t count as a top ten…
How We Should Talk about Plagiarism and Professional Malpractice
I know, I know – I said I was going to shut up about ethics for a good long while after I published our hobbyist media code of conduct. To be fair, I said that completely unprepared for what was going to happen a mere week or so later. In…
Top Ten Video Games for Board Gamers 2019
Hey, people seem to like top ten lists. Did you know that? I guess I knew that and didn’t realise quite how much. I’m completely prepared to sell out on this topic if it’s going to lead to more people reading Meeple Like Us and being exposed to our primary…
Meeple Like Us on BBC Radio 4
This is just a quick update post for everyone that isn’t following on Twitter or Facebook. Those that do have already likely seen this. Several times. A week or so ago I was contacted by the producer of the BBC’s In Touch programme asking if I would be available for…
Top Ten Best Board Game Apps 2019
It’s sometimes hard for me to find the time to play physical boardgames, and harder still to find that time when others have time also. That makes board game apps one of the primary ways in which I engage with this hobby. It’s not my favourite way, but it’s a…
Happy Third Birthday to Us
Three years. Three years. Three. Years.That’s how long Meeple Like Us has now been running – it’s our birthday today, you see. As such one of our Patreon funded special features of the month is going to be a look back on 2018/2019 to see where we are in comparison…
The Soft Power of Word of Mouth
In our last special feature we looked at the financials of Patreon and what’s happening behind the scenes of our own campaign. Essentially it was the Patreon post I would have liked to have existed at the time I was planning for our launch day. I’ve had a fair number…
Behind the Scenes of A Game Blogger’s Patreon
One of the things I really like to do with Meeple Like Us is write the stuff that I wished had existed before I made certain decisions and agreed to certain things. It’s something I do a fair amount in academia too – when I can’t find a paper that…
The Meeple Like Us Top Ten Best Board Games, 2018 Edition!
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Welcome to the Meeple Like Us Top Ten Best Board Games 2018 Edition! This is the second entry in a glorious tradition started all the way back in 2017 – at least, as far as we’re concerned. Was anyone doing top ten lists before that? I doubt it. I’m pretty…
Building an Accessible Game Library on a Budget
It’s all well and good we here at Meeple Like Us telling you about the games we’re examining and how accessible they are. That’s valuable work but it doesn’t answer a question I am occasionally asked – ‘where would I start building an accessible game library?’. What should…
2019 – Michael’s Depth Year
This is a more self-indulgent editorial than we normally publish. I’m sure you’ll agree – coming from a man who wrote a post on applying the Bloom Taxonomy to board game reviewing that’s quite the trick. I’m writing this because if I don’t document it somewhere it will become as…
AXS Chat with Michael
I did a thirty minute video interview with Neil Milliken, Debra Ruh and Antonio Santos on friday. We were talking about board game accessibility, and it was I think an interesting discussion. At least, I remember it being that way. I’m not a fan of watching myself on video so…
Play a Game with Meeple Like Us at Tabletop Scotland!
Tabletop Scotland is getting Really Close and we’re doing a seminar there! You may have already seen our UKGE seminar video – this one is going to be a companion to that. More hands on, less waffle. More getting into the nuts and bolts of a game and squeezing it…
Colectia de Sahuri – Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mrs Meeple and I are currently in Bucharest, Romania and it is ‘pissing down’ as people say here. ‘A real brolly buster, what?’. That’s another thing people say in Romania. ‘Crikey, it is raining cats and dogs and no mistake’. Bucharest is full of colourful local idioms for rain. Anyway,…