I've created GameGeek Offspring...

Just thought I'd post some new pix of my squids playing games with me...












These were taken during a couple different games of Dragon Parade, which seems like a much better game with kids than with a group of adults... :)

Reiner Knizia Addendum

First off, for those of you who don't know, Reiner Knizia is a very prolific and incredibly talented German game designer of which I am a huge fan.
His website is here.

Secondly, I was asked for more specifics about the experience:
Q: So what was he like in person? Serious? Funny? Totally focused on the game?

A: he was all three....definately focused on the game...he was very much doing his "job"...
he had two hours to get as much ideas and opinions out of us as he could, so when conversation strayed he brought it right back to the game...

but when one of us would think out loud something like "hrm...what can i do to get him"(speaking of reiner) he would say something like "oh, don't worry about it too much, there's nothing you can do to beat me" in a totally friendly and joking but also most of the time totally true way.... :)

he was super nice and funny, but way too damned smart... one game we ganged up on him and he came in second instead of first... :)

it was really interesting experience though...
he would say, "ok, here is a game i've been working on that i'm not happy with....the rules are...blah blah blah...." then we'd play it, and he'd say what he didn't like, we'd make some suggestions and talk about it....then he'd say, "ok, let's try THIS"...
and we'd play again, and it'd be WAY more fun.....then one of us would say "how bout THIS"...and we'd play it again and it'd be WAY more fun again....

it was awesome....it went exactly that way for 3 different games we played....he knew exactly what feedback we gave him would make the game way better, while we were just throwing out ideas...

Knizia!

Just thought I'd start off my new blog with some pix from this weekend.

Here is one that I had a fellow gamer take of me with Reiner Knizia after getting to playtest games with him for two hours.

It was awesome, but I can't talk about it because it would breach confidentiality.





Here is his autograph on my copy of Through the Desert...









Then that saturday night, after getting to meet Dr. Knizia in the morning, I went to go see MC Chris at Dante's and got to meet him also!


What a great weekend!!!


I just realized that not only do I have MC Chris' autograph on my Kniziathon Fact Sheet, but in my picture with Dr. Knizia I'm wearing my MC Chris t-shirt... HAH!