Since I first started using Kickstarter, I’ve backed about 40 projects, some at the minimum “I just want to help” level and a couple at a higher level with bigger rewards. For the most part, I’ve supported a lot of board games, for which there’s typically a minimum level for ...

Can a card game replicate the excitement and strategy of boxing? Maybe not, but it can make for a fun time!

The Miskatonic School for Girls has a slight problem: all the faculty and staff are either “mind-rending creatures or insane cultists.” The knowledge that they impart to the students is the sort of thing that will drive you to insanity.

Overview: Hike is the second effort from Moosetache Games, an up-and-coming publisher with a knack for designing nature-themed games (their original game, Rowboat, was a trick-taking game with a nautical theme). In Hike, players attempt to empty their hands by following suit from the most recent card played, a mechanic ...

Overview: Your food is at war: First Sergeant Fish Stick is up against a platoon of Private Pancakes — fortunately he’s joined by a Tank o’ Fries, and they brought Ketchup Mechanic with them. It’s a triumph at Spaghettis-burg! Food Fight is a new card game from Cryptozoic, filled with ...

Earlier this summer I mentioned that the deck-building game Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer was coming to the iPad and iPhone. I finally got to give it a shot recently. I think they’ve done a good job translating the game from cards to an app, but some of my original ...

Have you entered to win a copy of Stratus Games’ Launch Pad yet? Well, get on it, because there’s not much time left! A few weeks ago, we reviewed Stratus Games’ Launch Pad, a cutthroat game about building rockets, launching them into space, and sabotaging your opponents’ efforts to do the ...

We GeekDads love games, and independent games doubly so. This means that we collectively spend an inordinate amount of time perusing Kickstarter pages, as this has become an easy and effective avenue through which to acquire funding for indie gaming projects. One such fundraising effort is for card game Flapjacks ...

We GeekDads love games, and independent games doubly so. This means that we collectively spend an inordinate amount of time perusing Kickstarter pages, as this has become an easy and effective avenue through which to acquire funding for indie gaming projects. One such fundraising effort is for card game Flapjacks ...

A final guest post from my 18-year-old son John before he heads off to college! The Struggle for Catan is a new card game from Mayfair Games, based on the popular board game The Settlers of Catan. It’s a simplified version of the board game that is easier to get into and ...