Games Quarterly Gets All PDF On Boardgaming Scene

Thanks to OgreCave for pointing to the debut freely downloadable PDF issue of Games Quarterly Magazine, an also-available-in-paper magazine "devoted to non-electronic games: board games, educational games, role playing games, card & collectable games, family and general interest games!" Among the articles in this first issue are "Educational Games That Play In Under One Hour, by David Niecikowski", "Remember The Alamo? How Hollywood Inspires Gaming, by Marcelo A. Figueroa", and "The Settlers Of Catan Phenomenon by William Niebling."

Comments

Board games are underappreciated

[Nomihn0]

Good ones at least. Check out board game geek if you are a player and board game designers forum if you are a designer.

Don't forget Classic Gamer in PDF

[jeblucas]

Classic Gamer magazine also moved to PDF. You can get the first PDF issue here with the second to follow shortly. I, for one, really appreciate this publishing method. They can still turn out nice product and the distribution is far less complicated. A lot of niche magazines will head this route, I'm thinking. Well, the tech-savvy ones at least.

Chicks dig Settlers

[TheGreatGraySkwid]

No, seriously. It's a game that you can get your wife/girlfriend/whatever involved in. They love the communicative aspects of the play. We get together to play Settlers of Cataan at least twice a month, with as many as 14 people showing up. All the spouses/SOs like to play at least as much as the guys do, so it's one of the rare events that joins both sexes in talk and play. Of course, when you've got that many people, you can't just play with a regular peanut...and thus, the Linear Trinut.