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  1. I decided to freeze the action phase changes for iteration 3.5.

    The structure is cleaner now: unified locations, fewer exceptions, and up to 3 actions per move.

    I’m currently solo-testing it as five players, while shifting design work to the entertainment phase.
    Goal: more tactical competition for characters, more player interaction, and better tempo.

    #BoardGameDesign #GameDesign #TabletopGames #HistoricalGames #WIP

  2. Small Congress scandal: at the opening ball of the Congress of Vienna, rumour had it that a quarter of the 10,000 silver teaspoons bearing the imperial crest quietly disappeared into the crowd.

    I would treat this more as a perfect Congress anecdote than a precise inventory report — but honestly, that makes it even better.
    Diplomacy, spectacle, gossip… and apparently a few unofficial souvenirs.

    #History #CongressOfVienna #Vienna1814 #HistoricalGames #BoardGameDesign #WanderingPine

  3. Everybody, please stop naming European countries. I beg you. The magic die list is finally complete 🎲
    Number 6 is Romania — specifically Transylvania 🧛‍♂️

    Tomorrow the die decides which country gets the next deep dive into a real person connected to the Congress of Vienna.

    Final list:
    1 — Andorra
    2 — Finland
    3 — Austria
    4 — Serbia
    5 — Greece
    6 — Romania / Transylvania

    #BoardGames #BoardGameDesign #History #CongressOfVienna #HistoricalGames

  4. 🎉📜 Behold, a game where you can flex your mental muscles by placing events in chronological order—because everyone needs a break from #adulting to play historical jigsaw puzzles. Who knew email addresses could be so exciting? 🤔💌
    timdle.com/ #historicalgames #mentalchallenge #jigsawpuzzles #funandgames #chronologicalorder #HackerNews #ngated

  5. The #Inform7 #sourceCode for my two released #parser #TextAdventure / #InteractiveFiction games (Border Reivers and Napier's Cache) is now in the #IFArchive, in the games/source/inform directory. This is part of a move this year to release more IF game source code publicly. ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archi #ComputerGames #Adventure #HistoricalGames #ScottishGames #Code #GameDev

  6. We are less than 6 months away from four days of historical gaming in Greater Kansas City!

    HistoriKC Fest - Overland Park, KS - August 17-20, 2023
    historikcfest.com/
    tabletop.events/conventions/hi

    Featuring all this and so much more:
    - Next War Con
    - ASL Summer Sizzler
    - Last Hundred Yards Skin in the Game
    - Learn to Play
    - Open Gaming
    - Great Prizes
    - Designer interactions.

    #wargames #historicalgames #HexesForever #boardgames #boardgameconvention #boardgameevents #hexandcounter #consim