I swear, one of these years I’ll formalize the way I do my holiday picks article, but like usual TAGIE, ChiTAG and all the follow up work after it have sucked away the last couple weeks. So here I am, a week late posting my “Holiday Picks” article — still that’s better than last year!
Here it is, a list of games which will make great gifts and entertain your family during the holidays and the long winter (and my top picks of the games I reviewed in 2011 plus 2 …
Whew…ChiTAG is over and I’m exhausted! I will freely admit that between T&GCon, the TAGIEs and ChiTAG it’s my favorite 4 days in the game industry calendar because it feels like everyone is in town and it’s not quite as crazy as New York Toy Fair – although that’s debatable. During those 4 days I tackled: speaking at T&GCon on the “Packaging and Design” panel, I attended the Toy and Game Inventor Awards (and lost), was interviewed by a newspaper and a radio station, met with (what feels like) a …
I can’t express enough how social media has taken me to new and crazy places — places I’d never dream I’d be. For example, this month Fast Company magazine (a magazine I love) and has an article just on me and the “tools of my trade” (which is really just some of the interesting stuff I use to do my job). Amazing! Here’s a screen shot and a link to the article (and the one without typos is in the Dec/Jan print issue, page 84):
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/161/kim-vandenbroucke-game-inventor
Okay, I’m tooting my horn right …
First, thanks to all of you who voted for me – it just wasn’t my year. I will say, I’m okay losing to Susan McKinley Ross; she’s a great inventor and her game Qwirkle won the Spiel des Jahres, so it only seems fitting that she took home the trophy! Congratulations Susan!
Despite my loss, the evening was quite a success! Again it was held at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and this year the museum is hosting a Dr. Seuss exhibit which was quite cool! Dinner even had a …
Before all the craziness last week (Toy Hall of Fame Induction, Neighborhood Toy Store Day, National Gaming Day) I wrote about Befuzzled, one of the many games you’ll see at the Chicago Toy and Game Fair which is happening THIS weekend at Navy Pier. You can get all of the info HERE and you can get a coupon for $2 off admission HERE. And now I’m going to give you a little preview of what kind of games you’ll be able to try before you buy at the fair this …
