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A Career Ending Talk
For years I’ve wanted to give a talk on imposter syndrome – one that I hope(d) would be useful for students. I got a chance to do it today. …
Promobilia and the Accessibility Stack for Board Games
Anyone who’s getting our regular Patron series ‘Gaming in Gothenburg’ has been treated, if I may use that word, to regular updates on what work I’ve been doing at Chalmers. It’s a breakdown of the grants for which I have submitted applications, and the projects I really want to do…
Ten Great Books for People Serious About Games
As site regulars will know, in my real life I work at Chalmers University of Technology as a senior lecturer in the Interaction Design department. Specifically, my focus is on game design and game development. I’m relatively new in post at Chalmers but I’ve been teaching games stuff for a…
The Five Best Video Games Ever (That I Played During the Coronavirus Lockdowns)
Imagine someone spent their Corona lockdown period playing lots of games so you didn’t have to, and then reported back on the absolute best that they found? That’s this article….
Mrs Meeple interview on Steampowered
Hej hej! Hiatus ends in a few days, and we’ll begin to move forward with Hot New Content in the style outlined a few months ago. Before that happens though, I wanted to put up a quick post pointing y’all to Mrs Meeple’s interview on the new, and excellent, Steampowered…
Top Twelve Best Board Games with which to Start a Collection
Introduction We’ve done quite a lot of lists at this point, ranging from the obvious (top ten best games) to the downright bizarre (top twenty-two games we’d like to crossbreed in terrifying and unethical experiments). They’re fun to write and have the additional benefit of being reasonably newbie friendly. Each…
Managing and Curating a Circulating Game Collection
Back when I was young I had two answers to the question ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’. The first was ‘a librarian, ook’. The second was ‘a fire engine’. Neither in the end turned out to be the path my life took, but I’ve spent…
Top Eleven (Twenty-Two) Best Board Games I’d Like To Ship – 2020 Edition
Okay, I’m going to be the first person to admit that this a bit of a weird one. I had the thought last night while playing Wavelength with Mrs Meeple. The notion tickled me enough that I was convinced there was a top ten in it, and lo and behold …
MLU001 – A Free Training Workshop for Cardboard Prototyping
A couple of years ago I wrote a special feature on Cardboard Prototyping. It was a discussion of how I and my colleague Mike Crabb were using board games as a mechanism for teaching the intricacies of paper prototyping within our user centred design module. It’s a post that I…
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love ‘Self Promotion’
One of the greatest tricks the Devil ever pulled was convincing generations of Internet people that ‘external hosting’ was a sin against community building, and that ‘self promotion’ of content on external hosting was something of which we should be ashamed. That ‘marketing yourself’ outside a platform was inherently more…
The Meeple Like Us Top Ten Best Board Games 2019 Edition
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Welcome to the Meeple Like Us Top Ten Best Board Games, 2019 Edition! This is the third time we’ve done this – you can find the 2018 and 2017 editions elsewhere – but the idea of a MLU Top Ten has ceased to be something special since we’ve been doing…
Top Ten Best Games to Save Christmas
I know, I know – it’s so early to be talking about Christmas. We all wish we could just get it over with in a couple of days, but the festivities start earlier and earlier every year. I swear in 2018 that I went into a supermarket on the 26th…