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Year metric

I've been a fan of Matthew Gray's month metric. Now I happened unto his Every year 2007 update, focusing on the year metric. I haven't been bothering with that, believing I wouldn't have many high-scoring games. Well, I thought, why...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2008 12:32 PM

Lahti games weekend, Friday

Another Lahti gaming weekend is over now. Organised by Peter Munter of Puolenkuun Pelit, the event is rather merry occasion. The participants were all-male invite-only group of friends and friends of friends. The average age of the players is probably...

Posted by Mikko on March 15, 2004 9:27 AM

Independence Day games

Even though next board game club meeting is tomorrow, I invited Robert and Olli to my place for some games. It was a very good way to spend the Independence Day in my opinion, especially as Johanna was out of...

Posted by Mikko on December 6, 2003 9:15 PM

HelCon II - Saturday

Saturday was the first day of HelCon II. We got up early, packed the car and headed towards the location. Which was quite nice, really! For once the space was open and had windows and even the bathrooms were quite...

Posted by Mikko on November 10, 2003 11:49 AM

The Games Journal

A new issue of The Games Journal is out. In includes a rather interesting article about categorizing games based on player experience by Richard Vickery. There's also an article by yours truly about tournaments, a story about the Sid Sackson...

Posted by Mikko on February 3, 2003 9:38 AM

What's new

I've been doing lots of stuff lately, just haven't had time to document it here. I've played T&E at BGG, bought games, written about games and so on... I lost my first game of Tigris & Euphrates at the BoardGameGeek....

Posted by Mikko on November 27, 2002 1:42 PM

T&E Play-by-email at BGG

I've started to play Tigris & Euphrates at the Boardgamegeek. The interface is pretty ok - if you have decent Internet connection. It is quite heavy, so modem users might want to skip this one. However, if you're not afraid...

Posted by Mikko on November 22, 2002 4:58 PM