I've been reading: Family Games: The 100 Best
(I haven't actually got a copy yet, but if I pretend I have my blog gives me a nice cover picture to sit alongside this, so shhh!)
After a delay of quite a few months this book is apparently just back from the printers. But on a production with this many contributors, the odd hiccup is to be expected.
As with the previous one, it's a book of short essays on the favourite board, card & hobby games of a bevvy of games designers & games industry luminaries. This time the focus is on family games, as opposed to the RPG, wargame and CCG slant of the previous volume.
And as with Hobby Games: The 100 Best, once the list of essays was revealed I thought it would be interesting to be able to see the games being written about. So here's my companion piece to the book.
6 comments
Hey Matt,
The Pieces of Eight covered in Family Games: The 100 Best is this one, by Jeff Tidball and published by Atlas Games in 2006: www.boardgamegeek.com/.../pieces-of-eight
I love the visual companion. Thanks! We'll be pointing to it.
Thanks!
-Evan
Posted by Evan Sass on 21 Mar 2010 at 07:43 PM
Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs had better be in there!
www.boardgamegeek.com/.../lost-valley-of-the-dinosaurs-a-retro-review
Posted by Tim Latimer on 21 Mar 2010 at 09:29 PM
Matt:
Thanks, once again, for the visual companion!
Two quick corrections. The Cat game is the John Wick RPG here: rpg.geekdo.com/.../cat and the Prince Valiant game is also an RPG: rpg.geekdo.com/.../prince-valiant-the-storytelling-game
All best,
James Lowder
Posted by James Lowder on 23 Mar 2010 at 07:55 AM
Ooops. One more. the Pokémon game is the TCG, not the board game: www.geekdo.com/.../pokemon-trading-card-game
Cheers,
Jim
Posted by James Lowder on 23 Mar 2010 at 09:22 AM
@Evan & @James:
Excellent, should all be corrected now. I knew I'd have some of them wrong. That's what you get for wrangling a computer into helping you with your dirty work.
@Tim:
No Lost Valley by the looks of it, sadly. But they do have Dungeon! and Crossbows & Catapults so I'm willing to let it slide :)
Posted by Matt Tarbit on 23 Mar 2010 at 10:45 PM
p.s. Sorry for the errors when commenting, should be fixed soon.
Posted by Matt Tarbit on 23 Mar 2010 at 10:47 PM