Berlin Game Design

For my 2012 game, Nieuw Amsterdam, soon to be released through White Goblin Games, I returned to one of the staple mechanisms of modern b...

Last weekend, we experienced, for the first and last time, the Einschulung of our chidren (who happen to be twin sons). This is an enormous...

By Jeffrey D. Allers  Editor's note:  this was originally posted on December 1, 2007, on the now-defunct Boardgamenews website.  I am...

Kaput  is one of those few German words that I did not need to learn after I arrived in Germany. Like Gesundheit, kaput has a firm plac...

I've finally finished translating my guest lecture from last October at Berlin's Technical University for it's first year arc...

Germany's prestigious Game of the Year award was announced today in Berlin.  The international buzz surrounding the event demonstrate...