Author: murmak
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The Road to Arnak
Developing and publishing Lost Ruins of Arnak amidst a global pandemic has been a harrowing adventure of its own, to say the least. Hitting exciting milestones, like recently winning the 2020 Golden Geek award for Medium Game of the Year, certainly helps to keep our spirits high, but this trek…
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Brazil in quarantine
With our friends from Devir, we work together to bring our games to several countries. They already sent us how it looked in Spain, and now the situation in Brazil. Brazil is, as we write this message, the epicenter of the pandemic in South America. All our territory is officially…
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Situation in New Zealand
Since the start of the blog, we had a lot of coronavirus reports, but none was that far from the Czech Republic as this one. Our friends from Pixelpark sent us what is happening in New Zealand: March 24th, the New Zealand Government enforced a 4 week National Lockdown at…
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How to play Trapwords over the internet
We are continuing to work on many projects to help people survive social distancing. A few weeks ago, Tony Gullotti, our PR manager for North America prepared a video showing how to play Codenames with friends over the internet. Today he shared a video showing how to play Trapwords using…
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Adrenaline Solo Play DLC
Three weeks ago, in a post How to play Codenames over the internet, I mentioned that we are working on several things for you to survive social distancing more enjoyably. Two weeks ago, we released an update to the free print and play game Under Falling Skies – which now…
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Greetings from Baltics
Our friends from Brain Games operates in all three Baltics countries. So it is interesting to see a different approach by these countries to the current situation: Brain Games handles distribution and retail in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. Each morning all our team leaders meet for a video chat to…
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What about Canada?
One of our partners in Canada, Lion Rampant Imports (recently acquired by Asmodee), sent us their view of the current situation: Like most countries across the globe, Canada hasn’t been spared from COVID-19 and in early March, both federal and provincial governments put in place safety measures to minimize the…
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How it is in Germany
Our dear friends in HeidelBÄR Games wrote to us how is current situation in Germany: Covid19 caused a similar dramatic situation in Germany, as in many other countries. As a freshly restored publisher, the situation is challenging for us, too. But being a smaller and more flexible company has its…
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Situation in Greece
Our friends from Kaissa sent us how the situation in Greece is: The situation in Greece seems a little bit better than the situation in Western Europe. Our government was really cautious from the beginning, afraid that our weak medical system wouldn’t be able to accommodate enough ill people. It…
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Under Falling Skies – free print and play game
As I mentioned in last week’s post, How to play Codenames over the internet, we are working on several things for you to survive social distancing more enjoyably. Today I have a pleasure to present the second one. Before we get to it, though, let me tell you a story…