Tag: cge
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How To Make Spicy’s Hot Bluffing Gameplay Even Spicier
Haven’t gotten a taste of Spicy yet? We highly recommend you check out the hottest bluffing party game around. But what if you’ve already played a ton of Spicy with friends and want to find a way to freshen up the experience? The core game is a ton of fun…
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The Funkiest Food Trucks of Essen Spiel: Burger Battle Edition!
Did you know: there’s plenty to do at Essen Spiel besides run around and buy board games. Eating, for example, seems to be a popular activity here. It’s extremely difficult to navigate the gallery and outdoor food truck areas of the hall during normal human eating hours. Bad news if…
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Diving into the Two-Player Game Experience in Kutná Hora
In our last few articles about Kutná Hora: The City of Silver, we delved into the game’s mining system, asymmetrical guilds, and the use of recycled RE-Wood components. Today, we’re going to shine some light on the two player experience and how it differs slightly from a higher player count game. At its…
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RE-Wood: A New Material for Board Game Components
You may have already caught some of the under-the-radar buzz about CGE’s use of RE-Wood components in our upcoming Essen Spiel release, Kutná Hora: The City of Silver. It’s the first modern board game of its kind to make use of these unique eco-friendly materials. Gen Con was also the…
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Lost Ruins of Arnak: Extras
Explore articles, videos, art progress, and more from the world of Lost Ruins of Arnak.
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The Campaign – Playing Solo vs Co-op in The Missing Expedition
The challenging six chapter campaign in The Missing Expedition can be enjoyed entirely as a solo experience, but it also takes on a slightly different shape when you dive into it with another player cooperatively.
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The Guilds of Kutná Hora
Today, we have a special treat — a designer diary article written by Kutná Hora co-designer Ondřej Bystroň that sheds more light on the asymmetrical guilds in the game, where they come from historically, and how they factor into the experience. Enjoy!
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Mining for Prosperity in Kutná Hora
Mining was an essential part of the city ecosystem in Kutná Hora, and the city might not exist today without having brave miners who were willing to harvest ore to smelt into silver. It was a dangerous job that paid extremely well, considering the risks involved of delving far underground…
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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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Building the City in Kutná Hora
Though there are multiple ways to score and create combos in Kutná Hora: The City of Silver, a big focus of the game—both thematically and mechanically—hinges on how well you build out the city itself. At the start of the game, the city’s infrastructure is empty, but it will gradually begin…