http://cheyne.net/blog A minimalist blog, with a pretentious title, about strategy board games. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:08:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After listening to the latest Point2Point podcast, I tried out Wargameroom this weekend. I am very impressed. It has to be the best bit of Java coding I have ever seen. The game files are tiny and load almost instantly. The user interface is very intuitive and the game rules ... http://cheyne.net/blog/2008/04/wargameroom/ Burn the rope - with sound turned on.I found this over at Play This Thing, Greg Costikyan's video games blog. http://cheyne.net/blog/2008/04/burn-the-rope/ The Geek is offline again, so now is a good time to update.AgricolaChris got the most amazing set of Agricola figures and resources in a math trade, all handmade in polymer clay. Apparently the guy who made them only traded them as he had made another set. As Chris's English ... http://cheyne.net/blog/2008/04/april-catch-up/ Moritz Eggert's eulogy for Gary Gygax is the best I have come across. You learn about the man and the early history of Dungeons and Dragons - which was my gateway into the hobby.A transcript and a podcast are available. http://cheyne.net/blog/2008/03/gary-gygax/ Five came along to our regular games night for the first time in months, so we narrowly missed out on a game of Agricola with Chris' stunningly improved set - more on that in another post. Instead I press-ganged everyone into playing Breaking Away. When they saw the poor ... http://cheyne.net/blog/2008/03/breaking-away/