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An excellent game I’ll never have

28 listopada, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek 2 komentarze

It’s an excellent game. It has everything the WWII board game should have. It has small miniatures of tanks, small trucks, mortars, and all the other little toy soldiers we love. It has dice and uses a good chunk of them; when your Sherman fires, you take 10 dice in your hands and you throw them on the table.

The rules are simple and yet give so many tactical choices. In your round, you can activate any of your 3 units. With 20+ units on the table, it is pure joy. Use your mortar to slow down tanks. Move out with the Saper unit from the dangerous position. Risk and charge with your Flamethrower team. You need to do everything, but you have only 3 activations, and then your opponent plays.

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What kind of game Thorgal is

25 listopada, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy
Thorgal is one of the biggest comic book series in Poland. Created by Jean van Hamme and Polish artist Grzegorz Rosiński became a nationwide phenomenon. Polish fantasy book? Witcher. Polish comic book? Thorgal. Even though van Hamme is a Belgian writer, we all here in Poland treat the comic book series like our national treasure.

When the owners of rights to Thorgal reached us and asked if Portal Games is interested in creating a board game, we debated it for some time. 2, maybe 3 seconds. Then, we wrote ‘Heck, yeah.” and clicked send button.

And then the question – how to even start? You have rights to your beloved IP, and you can do absolutely everything. Should you do a fast-to-play deck builder like Hero Realms? Should you go for a dungeon crawler like Bloodborne: the board game? A story-driven game in the style of Sleeping Gods? A strategy game like War of the Ring?

There is an infinite number of possibilities. All tempting, all whispering to my ears: “Choose me, choose me.”

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It’s here!

23 listopada, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

My most expected book of the year arrived. It’s not a new novel from Brandon Sanderson. It’s not a new Stephen King novel. It’s not even the new novel about my beloved Troll Slayer. It’s Dice Men by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. It’s about the beginnings of the Games Workshop. 

You know, I am a sucker for everything that covers behind-the-scenes information. I loved these extras that back then were added to DVD discs. I loved documentaries about creating and developing games (like Indie Game: The Movie). I cannot express how I enjoyed  Designers & Dragons series by Shannon Appelcline. And now this – the origin story of the Games Workshop! OMG!

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Days of Wonder did it right!

21 listopada, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek 2 komentarze

Heat is one of the best racing board games I have played. And let me pair this statement with another one: I am a sucker for racing games, and I played a lot of them. When I say the game is great, I really mean it.

It has a simple and brilliant heat mechanism that forces us to think desperately about what to do before each turn and curve. It’s a small deck – our valuable resource. How much do you want to burn it this time, how many cards from this deck may you risk discarding this time? With this one rule, designers Asger Harding Granerud and Daniel Skjold Pedersen created the best board gaming equation: maximum player excitement achieved with minimum rules complexity. 

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Let’s go on an adventure

9 listopada, 2022 by Ignacy Trzewiczek Brak komentarzy

It was 2015, I think. Our fan base in the US was growing like crazy, it was almost 10 years after our Essen debut, and I felt stunning support from the geeks’ community. At some point in the office, we came up with the idea to make a photo contest for our fans. It was almost a decade ago, far before Tik Tok, Facebook groups, and all that jazz. Instagram was already a thing, but not too much in the board games niche. We had a ton of standard product photos but wanted some creativity. We asked fans for help.

The contest, as you can assume, was super successful, we received many photos, photos that I was posting on Portal Games’ social media channels for years. The creativity of Portal Games fans was impressive. The photo above is the one that won the contest. It’s been years, and I cannot express how much I love the simplicity of the idea behind it and the message it sends.

It’s exactly what Robinson Crusoe is all about. The unknown. The walk. The adventure.

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I strongly believe that good board game is the one that tells a good story. You play it and suddenly you are sucked into it, you feel chills on the skin. Emotions grow. In a moment you defend castle. You hear roar of warriors. You smell boiling oil. You are into it. That's how I design my games. I always want to tell a good story. I want players to be into it. As deep as possible.

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Nobody in the USA cares for soccer.
Also, half of the print run for Eleven sold out in 4 weeks.

I appreciate you. Thank you for being awesome.

Link: https://shopportalgames.com/collections/eleven

Nobody in the USA cares for soccer.
Also, half of the print run for Eleven sold out in 4 weeks. 

I appreciate you. Thank you for being awesome.

Link: https://t.co/9u1ztHzmi9
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OMG! It's only been a month since the release of Eleven: Football Manager Board Game and half of the print run is already sold out!

We are incredibly proud, thanks to you! 😁

Check out here:
https://shopportalgames.com/collections/eleven/products/eleven

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Today we published our monthly debrief, so buckle up and see what’s happening at Portal Games!

https://portalgames.pl/en/monthly-debrief-march-2023/

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Great selection of the new releases, including our Eleven at Games and Stuff!

Great selection of the new releases, including our Eleven at Games and Stuff!
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Happy Monday! Time to start the week off right with some board game excitement 🥳

Which game are you itching to add to your collection this week? Let us know in the comments 👇🏼 and let's make this week a blast! #boardgames

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If you missed this news, you can find all the most essential information about the two expansions for Eleven here 👉 http://bit.ly/Solo-Stadium-release

Be the best football manager on the board and expand your collection! ⚽

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