We used the same battlefield as last time (http://bradfinlayson.com/heroscape-battle-02-mountain-fate-vs-batcastle/), Ice Mountain vs Castle with a wide river in the middle. There is a bridge crossing the river, and ruins on the flanks. We did a 2v2 team battle this time. Here are the armies: Team Thanos Justin: Thanos (360) + Krav Maga Agents (100) + […]
Shannon Lentz (the founder and organizer of Terminal City Tabletop Convention) and I were interviewed on CBC radio about playing and making games. Check out the awesome article here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/why-people-get-addicted-to-board-games-according-to-a-game-designer-1.4009643 AND the full audio interview here: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/889866819549
It had been a while since we played Heroscape, and my brother Grant, who had found most of my collection at thrift stores for me, was coming up for visit, so it seemed like a great reason to get a battle in. I still had the castle and ice mountain I had built for a […]
I have weekly game nights at my place, and there is usually one other game night somewhere else another day of the week as well. At my game nights we change between BYOG random tabletop games, and an RPG night where players involved in a campaign show up and we play that exclusively. Currently I […]
I was interviewed on George Jaros’ “People Behind Meeples” blog about game designers. I got number 55! One of my favourite numbers: My number when I was playing hockey, and part of the Fibonacci sequence! http://gjjgames.blogspot.ca/2017/03/people-behind-meeples-episode-55-brad.html Be sure the check out the rest of his awesome content and games while you’re there!
I first started working on Wizard’s WARdrobe as my class project for a game-building class I was teaching at a local school. I spent a couple hours each week with a few different age groups, and guided them through the rudimentary steps of game creation. I started working on Wizard’s WARdrobe during one such course […]
Upon introducing Mage Wars to my play group, who are mostly Magic: the Gathering & strategy card game players, they immediately fell in love with it. It’s embodies the total feeling of being a mage in combat, with brilliant, balanced, and easy to remember rules. There was also no losing to bad draws: you pick […]
Heroscape Heroscape is a fully 3D tactical miniatures game released by Hasbro in 2004, but discontinued in 2010. It has been revived and rethemed as their Magic: the Gathering battle board game, Arena of the Planeswalkers. Heroscape always piqued my interest as it had a couple things in common with the G-Aim system I am […]
This is the first of hopefully many future tech roundups where I share some upcoming advanced technologies and how they relate to our lives in reality and fiction. The theme of this roundup is “Hover.” Specifically boards, bikes, and beams. Yes, that’s right. Hover beams. I would like to thank the creators of these technologies […]
One of my favourite genres of film are what I like to call ‘Reality Shifters’ because reality shifts during the film in such a way that they cause viewers to question the current state of reality in the movie, and possibly in ‘real?’ life as well. They often weave together multiple dimensions, timelines (more on […]
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