Isolation Day 53 Game: Spy Alley
In Spy Alley, everyone is a randomly determined spy working for one of six countries. Each player knows who they are and what country they work for, but it̵...
Author: Reay
Gamma testing a game
My daughter came up with a board game today. I can’t say how well thought-out it was before she drew it onto a large art book-sized page–she’s...
What I read this month
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo seems to be pretty divisive. Either you like it or you don’t. After making a solid go of it and getting pretty deep into t...
Isolation Day 38 Game: Labyrinth
In Labyrinth, each player is a wizard seeking secret treasures in a maze where the hallways and walls are always shifting. The game board is designed with squar...
Isolation Day 37 Games: Sushi Go!, Fast Flip Pizza
Tonight’s games were a carbon copy of those played back on Isolation Day 19, and I don’t have much to add beyond a couple of things I noticed: Sushi...
The unexpected benefits of an unexpected walk
When I went to get the snow tires swapped out at the dealership today, I was told that there were already a few people waiting inside, and so for the sixty to n...
Old dog, new tricks: Stop motion videos
I’ve occasionally wondered if there are apps to help create stop motion video. Today it hit me again, and this time, rather than allowing my brain to get ...
Isolation Day 30 Game: Qwirkle
Qwirkle is a game of creating lines of like colours or shapes but not both. Each player gets six small tiles with a coloured shape on it: One of a combination o...
Old dog, new tricks: Learning ukulele
My daughter has been playing the ukulele for a couple of years now through school classes, and she’s getting pretty good at it. And as all parents can app...
Isolation Day 30 Game: Carcassonne
Carcassonne is a competitive yet collaborative game where players build up a 2D region using modular tiles to get points as the game goes on as well as at the e...