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Welcome

Welcome back! This month’s issue is a really

WHIMSY AND MAGIC

You can spot an Everdell box on a shelf at 20 paces - but what’s the story behind the man responsible for its beautiful art?

MINIATURES ON A BIG SCALE

What goes into making miniatures, especially when they’re based on video games? Elliott Smith, Senior Graphic Designer at Steamforged Games, carves out the details.

BECOMING A FREELANCE ARTIST

With such distinct styles across different games and types, it’s no wonder publishers regularly turn to freelancers for support. Jamie Noble Frier, known best as The Noble Artist, talks about what it’s like to be one

TABLE TO SILVER SCREEN

Filmmaking has long been celebrated as an art, but how does that apply to board games? Kagan Productions fills us in

FEARSOME TO ADORABLE

We catch up with Sandara Tang, the artist behind the distinctive dragons of Flamecraft

BLINDED BY DAYLIGHT

Lifting the YouTube curtain on the sculptures by Blinded By Daylight

A FLORAL DISPLAY

A bouquet of exciting elements, we talk the pair behind Dux Somnium about making Botany an eye catching display

THE ART OF MINIATURES

Bad Squiddo founder Annie Norman fills us in on making accurate minis.

BEHIND THE CAMERA LENS

A game may be stunning, but how do you tell that story? We spoke with Aimée Rumsby about capturing the story of the game through the lens of a camera

VIRTUAL LINES IN THE SAND

THE IMPACT OF AI ART ON THE GAMING WORLD

A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO DICE MAKING

Are you a self proclaimed dice goblin? Have you ever wondered how those artisan resin dice you roll came to be? Welcome to the method behind the math rocks

BRINGING ART TO YOUR HOME

From table to wall, Meeple Design are bringing work inspired by our favourite board games to posters and pieces to live in our homes

ENCAPSULATE 2023

The End Of The Road

ON THE CARDS

We look ahead at some of the biggest trading card game news of the month and discover what’s on the cards…

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

With a flood of new cards, our expert Ross Gilbert takes us through the ones you’ll want in your next deck

Role Call

From magical girls to eldritch abominations, we’ve got something for ever yone in the latest ROLE CALL!

REROLL CAFÉ

SHOP SPOTLIGHT

CYPRUS

around the world in 80 plays

UNFOLD: DARK STORY & VICTIM OF THE PYRAMID

There’s nothing new about Escape Rooms any more.

COPENHAGEN: ROLL & WRITE

Copenhagen: Roll & Write is a game about

THAT’S NOT A HAT

If you say a game contains memory as

TRICKDRAW

It’s a one-deck shoot-out and the guns are

DEEP DIVE

Ioften think that evolution was having a laugh

FREEHAND

Freehand makes a claim on the front of

FOUR CORNERS: GALAXY

Four Corners is an abstract game of matching

ROBOT QUEST ARENA

It is a bold move when a new

PIRATE TAILS

There’s only one squirrel native to coastal areas

CLASSIC ART

Classic Art has quickly become known as “No,

SLEEPING GODS: DISTANT SKIES

The first thing you discover playing this is

ARK NOVA: MARINE WORLDS

There was marginal ‘will they, won’t they?’ about

AHAU: RULERS OF YUCATAN

Ahau: Rulers of Yucatan seems to bridge a

PORTALS

When Azul put proper abstract games right back

HIDDEN ARK

While some aren’t keen on the phrase gateway

KUTNÁ HORA: THE CITY OF SILVER

The premise of Kutná Hora might not strike

CASTLE BREAK

It was Miss Scarlett, in the boudoir, with

THE ARTEMIS ODYSSEY

In The Artemis Odyssey, venture to undiscovered galaxies,

LOST RUINS OF ARNAK: THE MISSING EXPEDITION

When Lost Ruins of Arnak landed a couple

COMET

In any closed ecosystem, the number of non-zero-sum

WILD TILED WEST

There is no board gaming theme that polyominoes

SPELLBOOK

Learning magic is a slow process, or at

SANKORÉ: PRIDE OF MANSA MUSA

Mansa Musa was the richest man that ever

THE PRINCES OF FLORENCE

What do you get if you put a

CHAINSOMNIA

Japanime Games has brought us a mixture of

CANGACEIROS

Life is pretty tough in northeastern Brazil –

KINGDOM DEATH: MONSTER, GAMBLER’S CHEST

Kingdom Death: Monster is the death-metal double album

CITY EXPLORER: KYOTO

City Explorer: Kyoto is a small box Japanese

NOOBS IN SPACE

In some board games, you’ll follow strict rules

FOREST SHUFFLE

Forest Shuffle is one of those games that

THE LONG ROAD

Escorting a talking keg of wine to a

TALES FROM THE LOOP: THEY GROW UP SO FAST

I’m a big fan of the Tales from

BORDERLANDS: MISTER TORGUE’S ARENA OF BADASSERY

Monster Fight Club’s adaptation of the Borderlands video

POKEMON CARDS

This month, we’re taking a look at what to do with what you find in your attic – with the example of a common discover y: early Pokemon cards

PATIENCE

PATIENCE