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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. The Networks: TV from Public Access to Prime Time. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new posts via email.
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Track Meet – The best and worst of scoring tracks | Formal Ferret Games
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. Track Meet – The best and worst of scoring tracks. My newest game The Networks. Has a scoring track. It’s been a bit of a pain at times, but it’s let me do things I wouldn’t be have been easily able to do otherwise. It’s also made me think a lot about what makes a good and bad scoring track. Let’s check out some theory and practice behind this humble component. Image credit: BGG user “vekoma”. Image credit: BGG user “Gelatinous Goo”. It serpentines....
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4P | Formal Ferret Games
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. I think the #1 mistake most new designers make is overvaluing their ideas. Heck, even NaGaDeMon. Tells you to spend a lot of time on your components, but you only need to play once. I say this is a load of honk. Game ideas are worthless. Rules to games that have never been played are worthless. People don’t play ideas for games. They play games. So, I propose the 4P challenge for all of us, myself included. Here are the rules…. As I’ve said in the past,...
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Lessons from Origins 2015 | Formal Ferret Games
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. Lessons from Origins 2015. Origins 2015 was a landmark convention for me. It wasn’t my first con as a vendor, but it was my first time actually having products for sale! I debuted the expansion to Battle Merchants, New Kingdoms. At Origins, and sold it along with the base game. Minion Games. Was kind enough to supply me with a few of their other games to fill out my stock. Things I did right:. We demoed our games quickly and interactively. At that point...
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What makes a good podcast? | Formal Ferret Games
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. What makes a good podcast? Ever since the year began, I’ve been listening to podcasts a lot. I’m finding them a great way to stay connected to the board game community and its various goings-on. I’ve sampled a few podcasts – not as many as I’d like, but they do take some time to listen to – and I’ve come up with some thoughts on what makes one podcast better than another. 1 Get to the point. But I’m here to listen about board games. I don̵...The sho...
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The Networks: TV from Public Access to Prime Time | Formal Ferret Games
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. The Networks: TV from Public Access to Prime Time. Economic strategy board game. You and your opponents are new television networks , and you need new programming. For this, you’ll need Shows, Stars, and Ads. Finally, Shows age and viewers lose interest, so you have to keep your lineup fresh by canceling shows and sending them into reruns. Fortunately, you can get viewers from your reruns, and the player with the most viewers from reruns each season...
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Demo, Convention, and Tournament Schedule | Formal Ferret Games
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. Demo, Convention, and Tournament Schedule. Every so often, I show off my games in public. Sometimes it’s a demo, and sometimes it’s a tournament. If you live within an hour’s drive of New York City and you would like a demo of a Formal Ferret game for your local game group or game store, contact me. We can work something out. Note that attendance is subject to change, but this is what I’m planning for 2016. Connecticut Festival of Indie Games.
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Formal Ferret Games | Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games | Page 2
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. September 5, 2016. A defense of low-interaction games, and why I hate the term “multi-player solitaire”. 8220;Tabletop Players” icon by Delapouite (modified), CC BY 3.0. So-called MPS games usually have some interaction. It’s subtle, and sometimes it only emerges once players have experience with the game. But to exaggerate and call them “solitaire” is inaccurate enough that it makes me question credibility. Also, there are many kinds of interaction in ...
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Prolix | Formal Ferret Games
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Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. Players score points by coming up with words whose letters match those of the Letter Chips on the board. Unlike other word games, you don’t need all the letters of a word to be on the board to use that word. This means that you are free to use all those words you always wanted to use in other word games, but were always a few tiles or cards short! Prolix was released by Z-Man Games. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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The Formal Ferret Gen Con 2015 schedule | Formal Ferret Games
https://gil.hova.net/2015/07/19/the-formal-ferret-gen-con-2015-schedule
Gil Hova designs, publishes, and plays board games. The Formal Ferret Gen Con 2015 schedule. I’ve been planning Gen Con 2015 ever since I returned from Gen Con 2014. In two weeks, we’ll see the results! It’s going to be an amazing convention for me. I’ll be showing the final manufactured copy of Bad Medicine, previewing the most current demo of The Networks, and selling the Battle Merchants: New Kingdoms expansion. Here are all the places you can find my games at Gen Con 2015! 9 am – 6 pm:. 9 am – ...
