There are blogs that tackle the Should You Take Your Game To Kickstarter? question really well already, based on actual experience launching games both with and without Kickstarter. Well this blog is our experience, and we have yet to publish our first game, but we are having to decide right now if we will go …
Thanks to the fine folks at Board Crazy Games, you can watch complete play-throughs of 2 matches. The fact that both play-throughs, along with a full explanation of the rules, can complete in 30 minutes tells you how fast this game plays. Plenty of twists and turns in both fights, check it out! They also …
I’ve noticed that there isn’t really a good place to post pictures of Epic Duels. Would people post to a Facebook or Instagram account? We can’t really post at the Wiki and the boardgamegeek photos section isn’t ideal, either. We could fire up the old Yahoo! group, lol. Join our newsletter! For now, we can …
Last night I assembled all of my materials for Cage Match! and put together 2 complete review copies, inserts and all. Today, I mailed them off. Nerve-wracking stuff, I tell you. I’m not even going to say the names of the reviewers in case they don’t like it. You never really know when you’re ready …
After announcing the end of organized Epic Duels tournaments, and many of the game’s most creative deck designers moving on, it might have appeared like interest in the game was coming to an end, but in fact it was just warming up for the second act. Sign up up to stay updated! Roll Call So by the …
As I’m preparing to launch my first original game, I got to thinking about just how long I’ve been involved with Epic Duels and how, at this point, I’m mostly working with a new group of people that may not know all the history there is to this game. Epic Duels is probably why you’re …
When I write “mini-review,” do I mean small or do I mean miniatures? The answer is yes. Sign up for our newsletter! I had never been to Adepticon before, but as a gamers in the Chicago area it was past time for Deri and me to go. Adepticon bills itself as “THE WORLD’S PREMIERE WARGAMING …
Read through the rules at boardgamegeek and while Unmatched is very similar to Epic Duels, there are some interesting differences. Sign up up for our newsletter! Object: Defeat the opposing major, called the hero, or both opposing majors in a 2v2 game. (nothing new there) Game Board The battlefield is made up of circular spaces …
Check out the really excellent podcast by Rolling Dice & Taking Names with Rob Daviau and his business partner (and blog commenter) Justin Jacobson. If you want to see the game in action, you can get a glimpse from Roll for Crit on YouTube. Sign up up for our newsletter! Some highlights: In battle there …
By now, you’ve surely heard that Rob Daviau and Restoration Games are publishing Unmatched a new, multi-series, tactical dueling game based on the original Epic Duels, per Rob and per Restoration Games. I’ll post all the official Tweets here: It kicked off with this tweet: Unmatched is a new take on the design of Star …