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SomaSim games figured out something early on in the lifecycle of Steam - PC gamers love strategy games.While consoles have proven out a market for your run of the mill platformer, action game, or FPS, the allure of sitting in a room and just thinking abou

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My screen is chaos. A monkey man, stationary in the middle of the screen due to magical boots that root him to the ground, casts lightning bolts that bounce between an encroachment of demonic beasts and deities. The lightning bolts kill my enemies in thei

Cole Wehrle is, by all accounts, one of the greatest boardgame designers working today. His games, chief among them Root, the meteroic smash hit about warring factions of anthropomorphized woodland creatures, are standouts in their field.The continued cri

No Quarter is NYU's annual games event that features original games, all commissioned by the university, that showcases new games by up and coming designers. If you're into indie games/games culture/etc., it's by far the coolest thing that regularly happe

Last episode, I mentioned Armello as a great example of a digital boardgame. And I wasn't kidding - it's truly best in class and loved by players all over the world.However, Armello's creators, League of Geeks, didn't stop making games. Instead, they took

Digital boardgames are a strange beast. By pure number alone, most exist as adaptations of their physical counterparts, published as a mod for Tabletop Simulator or on one of the online boardgame portals like Board Game Arena, Rally the Troops, Screentop,

Jon Perry is one of my favorite game designers working today. He's also that rare breed that has found critical and commercial success in both digital and physical games.The latter best represents his output from the past few years, with spectacular relea

Hello everyone!For the inaugural episode of GAME DATA I'm pleased to have gotten to interview none other than mobile game legend Arnold Rauers.Arnold's games label Tinytouchtales has consistently put out some of the most interesting games available on mob

Hello and welcome to Game Data!I'm Kyle Kukshtel, the developer behind the tactical strategy game Cantata, the game data editing tool Depot, and the 2D C# game engine Zinc!Through working on Cantata, I started to get interested in data management techniqu