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	Complex German Games
		In fact, there were four games called, originally enough, the "big four" that any German game collector worthy of the title was supposed to have in their collection.
		Given the amount of development time that goes into a game it may not have but, it was the first release of a more complex game in a professional package and, by winning game of the year, seems to have opened the door to more complex and longer playing designs by major German game companies.
		The game won game of the year but, there was enough call for Amigo to release the Elfengold expansion in 1999 which effectively returned the game to Elfenroads.
	www.thegamesjournal.com /articles/ComplexGermanGames.shtml (1060 words)

	Out Of The Box Publishing: Bosworth Reviews
		All games are alike in that they keep the hierarchy of the pieces and the objective of the game and only adapt the basic conditions to the new medium.
		Ferdinand Bork thought he could proof this for the game of skat with many bold number mythological considerations in his Einfhrung in die Schachgeschichte (Introduction to the history of chess), of which only 70 copies were published (Klanxbll 1951).
		Twice per game the king has the option to free himself with a rochade when the opponent is about to capture him.
	www.otb-games.com /bosworth/reviews/dikus.html (1296 words)

	Gamerdad - Something for the Kids
		Advertised as a game for children and families, Eagle Games' Lord of the Rings is a kid's board game that includes strong thematic ties to the books and movies while remaining a simple game with a playing time short enough for the young ones.
		The result is a fun game for young and old fans of the story, but remains a decent game for those that are not.
		The game pieces are wooden and sturdy cardboard and combine well with the watercolor art that conjures up memories of the Lord of the Rings book cover art of the 70s and 80s.
	www.gamerdad.com /print.cfm?itemID=708 (1336 words)

	Gamerdad - Games For Two
		Games with too much randomness may not be fun for the enthusiast to play, while games that require deep strategy may soon bore a more casual gamer.
		After a number of games equal to the number of players, the overall winner is the one with the lowest total score.
		To win the game, a player must be the first to collect a majority of cubes in three of the five colors by turning them in for a symbolic victory card of that color.
	www.gamerdad.com /print.cfm?itemID=717 (1474 words)

	Catan Online - About the Game
		While working with the board game publisher Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH and Co (Kosmos), it was determined that the scope of the game was too ambitious.
		Klaus worked with Kosmos over the course of the next year to refine the development aspects of the game and eventually published it under the German name "Die Siedler von Catan" for the German market in 1995.
		Based on the estimates by the various Catan publishers, there are more than 15 million active players of The Settlers of Catan around the world that play the game on a weekly basis, and the audience is continuing to grow at a rapid pace.
	catanonline.com /about/history.htm (435 words)

	Games Recommended by Matt
		Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers is another spin on the game which simpifies scoring; Carcassonne: The Castle is a highly recommended version for 2 players, and Carcassonnne: The City is a beautifully packaged version that captures much of the flavor of the Castle but allows for more players.
		These games take on average about 15 more minutes to learn that those in the "German Games Starter Kit," and play lengths are extended a bit, but the time investments are paid off with the ability to form deeper strategies.
		Based on the board game, Starfarers of Catan and the Settlers of Catan Card Game, both of which are based on Settlers of Catan.
	leacock.com /games (2078 words)

	1# Insider Info: boardgame inventors, retailers & suppliers
		Before we start discussing German games, let us take a look back into game history when we purchased games from the U.S. It started in the early 80ies with the role-playing game D and D (TSR), and was continued with many fantasy games like Wizards and Magic Realm (Avalon Hill).
		These games could be divided into two categories according to their themes: fantasy and science fiction games and war games.
		One of the best examples is Acquire, a game which also fits most of the given criteria, but the author is American, it was first published by 3M, an American publisher, and it also published a long time before the expression German game was created.
	www.discovergames.com /wolfgang.htm (1643 words)

	Kulkmann´s Gamebox - Hellas
		The game itself is focused on two different tribes battling each other to win predominance over the islands of ancient Greece.
		Distributed on these islands known at the beginning of the game, each player starts with four cities of which each is manned with one soldier and one ship.
		A bit of a weakness may be that some games tend to end rather quick and possibly unspectacular, since players can decide to spend quite a bit of time on discovering new islands, making battles quite unnecessary.
	www.solicitor.de /gamebox/reviews/hellas.htm (826 words)

	Kulkmann´s Gamebox - Caesar & Cleopatra
		At the beginning of the game, 21 roman nobles are distributed on the table.
		During a game turn, a player decides whether he wants to place 1 secret influence card or 2 open influence cards in front of one or more of the nobles-groups.
		Although the influence and the action cards are drawn at random (players may decide the order of their action-cards in the standart game), no player gains an advantage which rests for the rest of the game.
	www.boardgame.de /reviews/cc.htm (958 words)

	Game Reviews, Game Articles, Game Previews - The GameWire from Gamefest.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This game seems to be more of a family game than Raja, which is more of a gamer game.
		The co-operative development of a game with a co-author is much livelier, more active and is a lot more fun than developing a game on your own.
		Nuremberg will bring a children’s game (for 4 and up), a clever, lively dice game for the entire family (for 8 and up), a large tactics game (for 10 and up) and a new release of a well-known game.
	www.gamefest.com /news/feature_detail/1407_0_3_0_C (1641 words)

	Marracash Review
		The game is set in the marketplace of Marrakesh, where vendors hawking their wares try to entice customers into their most humble establishments.
		The marketplace is riddled with fountains at various intersections, including the spaces directly in front of the three entrances to the city.
		Any game which gets me thinking about how to approach it next time is a winner in my book.
	www.gamereport.com /tgr14/marracash.html (728 words)

	MVGA: New Games Report - Gathering of Friends 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's a tactical game, and it seemed that point scoring opportunities fell into the lap of one player or another in the two games I played, which had 4 and 3 players.
		After the game was over, I declared that the condition necessary for a second play would be locked in a stuck elevator with a severe claustrophobic who needed to be distracted.
		Card game, with a lot of resource management elements (money is tight through most of the game, so one needs to decide a direction and stick to it).
	www.unitygames.org /mvga/GoF2004.html (4212 words)

	Kulkmann´s Gamebox - Amazonas
		And this is the only part in the game when you must think carefully about what your opponents could want, because with the right choice you can save a lot of money in the following phases (remember that it is always cheapest to be the first one in a village).
		For adults with higher expectations in games there are definitely too few tactics and strategy in the game.
		The design of the game is functional and does fit to the game quite reasonable.
	www.solicitor.de /gamebox/reviews/amazonas.htm (811 words)

	Game Notes #3, Page 1
		The game comes with a host of scenarios that roughly correspond to the old War in the West and War in the East "smaller" campaigns.
		This is the perfect game for frustrated economists, arm-chair "what if?" historians or for anyone who aspires to run a command oriented economy.
		Not only did I have to overcome the fact that it was a card game, but had to deal with the fact that the theme concerned bean farming.
	www.bouldergames.com /gamenotes/gamenotes_3.htm (1768 words)

	Babel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The object is to construct towers of Babel at the different locations; the game ends when a player reaches a set number of points relative to his opponent.
		This is one of the heavier games in the Kosmos line.
		However, while a reading of the rules makes the game sound very strategic, there is a surprising amount of luck and chaos to it, so don't be fooled.
	www.germangames.com /game.asp?gameID=16 (567 words)

	The Game Report: Business Archives
		All games and expansions have collectively sold 6 million copies, of which 3 million copies were of the basic game alone.
		The Christian Science Monitor offers an article about a small game publisher and her efforts to market her game about garage sales called Driveway Deals.
		The article discusses the difficulty in getting established game publishers to consider your game idea, and in getting retailers to stock an independently produced game.
	www.gamereport.com /archives/Business.shtml (267 words)

	Kulkmann´s G@mebox - Tolkien Boardgames
		However, most of these games share the fact that they have been out of print for 20 years or longer, and today they are valued as collector's items and are sold for high prices at any games convention.
		Quite interestingly, quite a few of the older games were not officially endorsed by the Tolkien estate.
		As I found out, Tolkien's publisher had neglected the copyright of Tolkien's books in the USA at that time, and this resulted in a lot of games which actually used topics from the Lord of the Rings.
	www.boardgame.de /tolkien.htm (358 words)

	GameNews.com.au
		Third Wave Games CEO Morten Brodersen said "it has been a pleasure working with Lighthouse Interactive to make War World ready for the retail launch and we are looking forward to giving players worldwide the chance to experience the unique game that is War World: Tactical Combat." For the game website, click here.
		Internal alpha testing of the game was carried out late last year and even included a few very lucky members of the public as part of the internal testing as well as to verify the state of the development, presumably in an effort to assure fans the game was going ahead.
		Gamepro found out from Engage that the game in question was Counter Strike, and in an effort to seek comment from Valve on the issue of in-game advertising, was told by Valve that it was a legal matter now and that permission to run the ads in their game had not be obtained.
	www.gamenews.com.au /Jan_2006.html (1969 words)

	Guenter Cornett Creates and Plays Board Games in Berlin, Germany - Part 3
		Originally the game was designed much differently with every player planning their turn simultaneously and taking turns from back to front.
		Your next game, in a return to Hawai’i, was the sophisticated Kanaloa, which was very pleasing to many players who consider themselves connoisseurs of fine games.
		Because of the economic situation, board games may be too expensive for the poor and too 'cheap' (image) for the rich ones.
	spotlightongames.com /interview/cornett3.html (2531 words)

	The Game Ranch - Game Reviews - Elasund
		Once again, Kosmos and Mayfair have produced a game with high quality, attractive components that are well designed to facilitate game play.
		The rules are excellent, in color and with an overview of the game as well as plenty of examples.
		However, this did not seem to be the case and my games were all in the stated 60-90 minute range.
	www.rozmiarek.info /games/reviews/Elasund.html (2378 words)

	Cosmos (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kosmos rocket, a Soviet launch vehicle whose Sheldon name was C-1
		Kosmos (Marvel Comics), a character in Marvel Comics
		Kosmos (South Africa), a village in the North West Province of South Africa
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosmos (364 words)

	Billabong Boardgamers: Caesar & Cleopatra review
		A good strategist will do both during the game to confound the opponent about which cards are high-valued, which are low, and which is the decision-reversing Philosopher.
		The game is always close and rarely ends in a draw (and usually it does only when the players deserve to tie).
		The one complaint I have about the game is that my partner and I are always arguing over who gets to play the Cleopatra side, as we both think those cards are prettier.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~debbiep/billabong/rcaescle.html (323 words)

	Billabong Boardgamers: Kahuna review
		The game can turn around rapidly with the strategic placement of one bridge, causing an Othello-like ripple to occur down the archipelago.
		But wresting control back from the leader isn't always easy, and the game can often end up a whitewash, particularly if one player is stronger than the other.
		One very clever thing about the map board and cards is that they have alignment markers - orange fish and purple turtles - on the corners, which makes it very easy to keep your cards (which also have a map on them for reference) oriented the same as the board.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~debbiep/billabong/rkahuna2.html (233 words)

	Phone Book
		Manufacturers of wargames, current publisher of the classic 3M boardgames (such as Regatta and Speed Circuit), and frequent publisher of Eurogame designs (such as By Hook Or By Crook and History of the World).
		The quality of their games is enhanced by this interplay between the light and the beautiful on one hand and the serious and challenging on the other.
		Their games reflect a second running tension, as well, between Green sensibilities and the need to use conflict to create dramatic tension in their games.
	www.gamecabinet.com /info/GameMakers.html (1515 words)

	Thames & Kosmos > News > 01.16.06
		All six award-winning Thames and Kosmos kits can be found at specialty toy, educational, hobby, and museum stores, as well as through school and homeschool suppliers and toy and gift catalogs.
		Thames and Kosmos, a privately held company headquartered in Portsmouth, RI, was founded in 2001 with the mission of creating high-quality science and technology-related educational products for children.
		Topics covered in the Thames and Kosmos line of over 20 kits include fuel cell and solar-power technology, chemistry, microscopy, biology, physics, crystallography, aerodynamics, optical illusions and human perception, perfume, cosmetics, natural history, geology, earth science, and tube radio technology.
	www.thamesandkosmos.com /news/news011606.html (1018 words)

	GLASS BEAD GAME--Cosmic Play In a Symbolic Universe
		This Glass Bead Game website was inspired by the vision and insight of Dr. John Richter, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, occultist and metaphysician, whose 35 years of research into every field of knowledge were ideally integrated by the conceptual framework presented by Hesse's Glass Bead Game.
		We are willing to provide copies of sections of these writings to individuals who are interested in the development of the Game in exchange for their help in either transcribing or scanning this material into a format which may easily be posted on this website.
		Wortmann's works were published in very limited editions in Germany, and have remained to this day almost unknown, though they represent some of the most profound and advanced works on Esoteric Cosmology ever conceived.
	www.glassbeadgame.com (2855 words)

	Ro Sato plays games in Tokyo - Part 2
		Some foreign board game makers such as Da Vinci, Kidult and Face 2 Face, now include Japanese rules in their games so that is a great change.
		I think the arcade game industry in general is not doing so well due to vast improvements in console platforms and people are simply not going to the arcades as much.
		The communication aspect of these games is really welcome, but I don't think it's a good thing for the game industry (arcade or board game) to rely too much on trading cards or a character-based business model.
	spotlightongames.com /interview/sato2.html (1784 words)

	Boardgame News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It’s a game where you make a map with tiles; I have a complete addiction to these games, and between that and the positive buzz surrounding it, it was a must-have title.
		The second game up is Battlelore, the one everybody’s been waiting for.
		Some games I like; some games I love; some games I admire--I have a serious crush on this game series.
	boardgamenews.com /index.php/boardgamenews/comments/... (1169 words)

	Game Previews of upcoming games from Gamefest.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Granted, games with rivers — be they the Tigris and Euphrates, the Nile, the Rhine or the Congo — have been published before.
		The winner at the end of the game is the first player to manage to build five buildings.
		This game is due to be released in Late April 2004.
	www.gamefest.com /news/preview_detail/744_0_5_0_C (1370 words)

	GeekList: The Settlers of Catan - expansions, scenarios and spin-offs
		Dutch publisher 999 Games released several mini-scenarios, of which this is one.
		We own this game (and many of the others on the list) and it gets the most game play of them all.
		Another game that uses the same basic mechanics as Settlers adding it's own unique elements, similar in a way to the Historical Scenarios (but set in the Holy Land).
	www.boardgamegeek.com /geeklist/16143 (1420 words)

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