Background

Specter Ops was a 2015 release by Plaid Hat Games and designer Emerson Matsuuchi and belongs to the hidden movement genre, a mechanism I have found very enjoyable and frankly under-used in board gaming. Try and think of a few...you'll probably name Fury of Dracula, Letters from Whitechapel and Scotland Yard; there are others of course but these are arguably the most famous games in this category. Scotland Yard is a light family game, Letters from Whitechapel is a bit more grizzly thanks to its theme but the gameplay is fairly straightforward, and Fury of Dracula is a deeper and longer experience that has benefited from two new editions over the years, the latest also released in 2015.

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Ever wanted to see your name in lights? Dreaming of your 5 minutes of fame?

We are looking for bloggers who are a little bit different; people who write for the fun of it; people who adore table top gaming. If you're interested in blogging on The Great Indoors then please email Peter .

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Background

Waggle Dance was released in 2014 by Grublin Games and designed by Mike Nudd. As is standard operation for Cornwall-based publishers Grublin Games, the game was crowdfunded by a Kickstarter campaign and is now available from retailers. Speaking personally, it can be frustrating when a game is created for a Kickstarter campaign but then unavailable for those who didn't back it. No fear of that with Grublin Games: we salute you!

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Background - Why I bought Crisis

When I found out a few weeks ago that I would be going to my first Essen Spiel, one of the first things I looked at was the Spiel Preview page on BGG, curated by the fantastic W. Eric Martin. This is a one-stop shop for all games being released at Essen and believe me, it was exhaustive: 32 pages long at the last count. Sorted by publisher, you can find details on just about every game either being released or demoed prior to Kickstarter campaigns etc.

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I got into board gaming through a friend at church, the right honourable Neil Curtis. Because he's an unassuming, diffident kind of chap, he let me pick the games from his collection that I wanted to play. Rather than condescending by starting me off with 'gateway' games, he let me chart the course, probably reasoning that it's more important to garner enthusiasm for this wonderful hobby than to insist on starting with simpler games and moving from there.

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