Publications, Reports, Press Review

GTN: Changing the Rules

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:11:00 +0100

Our member Rob Bartel wrote on Global Toy News an interesting blog about the importance of clear game rules and made some innovative suggestions to improve them.

Link to the blog

GTN: Changing the way we play

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:58:00 +0100

Anna van Slee's article about Using Social Media Thinking to Advance Board Game Mechanics was published in the blog of Mary Couzin on Global Toy News on January 04, 2012. Anna was a speaker at T&GCon and SMAPCon and is Account Director at Kunoichi, where she guides the creative interactive strategy for high-profile clients in the toy and game industry.

Link to the article

TricTrac: We are not anonymus!

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:25:00 +0100

The French gamers website TricTrac published on December 15, 2011 an article about the current initiave of the SAZ GAMES ALSO HAVE AUTHORS and the (usually) self-evident to name the authors of the games.

Link to the article (in French language)

Global Toy News: Monopoly - An American Icon

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:00:00 +0100

Michell Parnett from the National Museum of Play - The Strong featured the current exhibition about the history of Monopoly on the website of Global Toy News.

Link to the article

Link to the museum

Bruce Whitehill: Inventing & Selling Games

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:59:00 +0100

Bruce Whitehill, game designer and games collector, published on its website The Big Game Hunter an interesting article for game designers and those who want to start. A variety of experiences and tips makes this contribution especially worth reading.

Link to the article

Mark Rosewater: 10 Things Every Game Needs

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:05:00 +0100

Magic: The Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater has posted a two-part article series (part one and part two) on the Wizards.com website under the title "Ten Things Every Game Needs".

Source: BoardGameGeek News

Global Toy News: Essen ist to Games what New york is to Toys

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:22:00 +0200

Rob Bartel wrote for Global Toy News a short report of the Internationale Spieltage 2011 in Essen. Included is a Link to a very detailed blog with many pictures of Frank Schulte-Kulkmann, who describes many novelities and gives an impression of the city of Essen and its surroundings too.

Link to Rob Bartels report

Link to Frank Schulte-Kulkmann'ns blog

The Game Box - Legal Requirements for Game Packaging

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:49:00 +0200

Bruce Whitehill, The Big Game Hunter, wrote a blog on the website of The Toy and Game Inventor Conference in Chicago about all useful and necessary information on a game box.

Link to the blog

Global Toy News: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:08:00 +0200

Richard Gottlieb of Global Toy News asked Sam Green, manager of Objet Ltd., about the the current opportunities and convincing technology of 3D printing for rapid prototyping.

Link to the article

Bruce Whtehill: What is legally required on a game box

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:50:00 +0200

Bruce Whitehill published on his website "The Big Game Hunter" the article "The Game Box". It is in regard to the legal requirements (in the U.S.) for game boxes, and also covers what is not legally required but strongly suggested (or "demanded", in the case of authors' names).

In Europe we have partly different requirements, e.g. the European Safety regulations (CE) and the herewith connected warnings.

Link to the article