Dan Hill

Board gamer and fledgling designer. On twitter to learn and connect. Loves heavy strategy and interplay of theme and mechanisms

[Dan Hill @Hilltop_Games]

@erik_a_sunden No worries, thought you might have the data sat there. Always like to swim against the crowd.

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@TabletopiaGames Frostpunk, if you're after an extremely gritty character drama

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@OspreyGames I believe I am duty bound to say Huddersfield!

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#SunshineCity is a neat little #pnp #rollandwrite from @peterchayward @PlayJellybean on @Kickstarter now. Moving three figures round a rondel - a penguin builder, a dragon inventor and a stegosaur lobbyist (meeples also work)

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@DiceAndNames That definition is a "gamer term", as orthogonal does not mean #AdjacentButNotDiagonal. What you should do when the rulebook says "place the square tiles orthogonally" ... #geometrypedant

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@DeepWaterGames I so want to make a Civ-style legacy game, where the ordinary people persist, but the kingdoms and empires come and go

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@TheHappyLuza @BlueOrangeGames It's all relative ...

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@TheHappyLuza @BlueOrangeGames A diagonal is a straight line joining two opposite corners of a straight-sided shape, typically a square or rectangle. Orthogonal means at 90° to and intersecting. Here are some orthogonal diagonals!

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@wisegoldfish Thanks for the game, looks like it'll be another hit in our household

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@jambapg War of the Ring: Second Edition

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@colewehrle This looks amazing. Fortunate to have a great gaming group, but I've been looking to really dive into a Cole Wehrle game. To do that it needs to get in the family game rotation and direct player combat pretty much rules this out. How much of the game is driven by player combat?

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@KosmosGamesUK #SwitchandSignal Love an @djackthompson design and already know the kids like this one after having a go at @SPIEL_Messe in 2020 via @TabletopiaGames inplementation @Fairtradelady @pastclimates

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@travisdhill Usually followed by either dismissing it as a crazy idea in about 2 minutes the following morning or losing 2 weeks to an interesting wild goose chase, that ultimately leads nowhere. Or is that just me?

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Looks like its time to #ReturnToArzium #NowOrNever @RedRavenGame @ryanlaukat #storybookgames #boardgametrilogy

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Introduced #Voyages (from @postmark_games, @wookiebait and @wisegoldfish) to boys tonight. Unfortunately it went down so well we had to play another round. #latetobed

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Read interesting #althistory article yesterday https://t.co/17mvXdQLj0 from @Prof_MCherry, partly based on local history, and now have functioning #sologame / #coopgame. Needs some refining, but good start to "The trials and triumphs of General Ned Ludd". #Luddites #Huddersfield

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@OspreyGames "Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space" is pretty sweet!

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@OspreyGames I'd love to see some 'civilizations' that are more in tune with their environment and maybe have some interesting mechanisms to reflect their unique settings. For example, the Polynesians (Pacific Islands), the Inuit (Arctic), the Toureg (Sahara) or the Arawak (Amazon).