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10 Apr
Posted by shadejon as CCGs, Card Games, Classic Board Games, Miniatures
Port St Lucie, FL: Two brothers beat a man who asked one of them for the money he was owed in a card game. (source)
Alexandria, LA: 11 year old arrested for stabbing his cousin during a dice game. (source)
St Louis, MO: Young man shot dead at a backyard dice game. (source)
Chicago, IL: 15 year old shot on the way to a dice game. (source)
Atascocita, TX: Driver crashes car into house while returning from a dominoes game. (source)
Madison, WI: 78 year old woman banned from senior citizens card game for alleged abusive language and physically threatening behavior. (source)
10 Apr
Posted by shadejon as Card Games, Modern Board Games
Imagigrafx a printing company in Kalamazoo, MI, has joined the board game manufacturing game, and is ready to produce board and card games.
They can do everything, including artwork from your sketches. Minimum suggested print run is 10,000 1,000. Update: Ben Clark, Director of Game Development, tells me that they’re lowering the minimum suggested print run, as they would like to capture “the small press market”.
10 Apr
Posted by shadejon as Modern Board Games
The Northwest Federation of Community Organizations has put together a free downloadable board game on the trials of the immigration process.
It details the difficulties encountered in trying to become a U.S. immigrant, the legal way.
(source)
Morpho Board is a board game design tool.
It looks like it provides a prototype out of which to carve relational spaces, or something like that.
It’s free and it’s in beta.