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How Development of Little Alchemists was Different for CGE
Over the last 15 years of developing and publishing board games, Czech Games Edition has learned a lot and made many incremental improvements to how we make games. It’s been an ongoing process of experimentation, iteration, and refinement that continues with each game we release. With Little Alchemists being the…
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SETI Designer Diary #1: The Beginnings of SETI
Designed by Tomáš Holek, SETI: Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is a new scientific space euro for 1-4 players that we’ll be releasing at Essen Spiel 2024! It’s a heavy engine building and hand management euro that pays homage to space and planetary exploration, astronomy, the ongoing search for signs…
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Designing the New Campaign Meta Game in The Missing Expedition
Adding in more layers of replayability, and giving players the opportunity to make choices that can unlock surprises, is an important piece of the puzzle in the upcoming expansion. That’s where the all-new meta game elements come in. They introduce more weight to the choices you make as you navigate…
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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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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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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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COVID situation in Poland
I still have a backlog of reports from our partners from last week. So without further ado, here is today’s dose of COVID stories around the board gaming world. This time from our partner Rebel.pl from Poland: It is probably more or less similar to Czech. In essence, schools and…
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Slovenia and France
Slovenia, a small country in southern Europe, is not hit as hard as it’s neighbor Italy. But still, even there situation is not easy, as our partner Ponva wrote to us: It has been almost a month, and now we are reaching 1200 infected (this is week old info, sorry…
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How to play Codenames over the internet
Over the last several weeks, we were working on many things that might help people to survive social distancing more enjoyably. Most of them are still being worked on, but I am glad that we have the first one ready. Tony Gullotti, our PR manager for North America, prepared a…