The Game Mechanics

This series is called The Game Mechanics. It will be a series of blog posts that will focus in on a specific game mechanic and use an example game to dive in a little deeper. This is a great series of you are getting into game design or are just interested in how games work. Also we are interviewing game designers to see what makes them tick.

The Newest Posts

QE a Review of a Bidding Game to Big to Fail (Its Not That Big)

Quantitative Easing is what QE stands for. What does that even mean? Its a monetary policy Central Banks use to help combat deflation and keep money flowing during economic down turns. In QE players will take on the role of a Central Bank and buy up assets to keep their country's economy going. They have to be careful to not spend too much money while doing this. QE is far less complicated that this paragraph was. Lets take a look at QE from All Play games.

Variable Setup in Board Games: Explained

Variable setup appears near the top used mechanic of board games on boardgamegeek.com Variable setup is exactly how it sounds, every time you start a new game the game is different somehow. I know that there can be a barrier to entry with the jargon people use to describe games. So as part of what I do with Bert’s Tabletop Games I want to reduce that barrier to entry by explaining it in plain language though my series call The Game Mechanics.