Friday Tea Break: Crafting the perfect beer game, Rooky errors

Hello you! Alcohol is always on my mind at this point in the working week, but especially so today amid the news that craft beer-based board game Brewing USA is on the cusp of filling up its Kickstarter, with only the foamy top still to go. Like a pint of beer! You see?

Brewing USA

 

Brewing USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m a big believer in board games and alcohol being a superb mix – not literally, my copy of Pandemic stinks of red wine, and some of the role cards are distinctly pink following an elbow-related incident last year. I also been drunk enough playing the Resistance that I’ve forgotten I’m a spy and accidentally battering rammed the good guys to victory. It’s since turned out that I’m ALWAYS a spy in The Resistance, so that’s a bit easier to remember. Anyway, Brewing USA takes booze and games a bit further by having you create and launch a myriad of beer types into different parts of the US, with the option of challenging other players to something called a Brewfest if they already control a certain city. Brilliant. Thinking caps on for a drinking-game version of this please. There’s a quick interview with designer Adam Rehberg in his local online rag here.

 

A beautiful chess piece

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Poor, bullied Brendan from Shut Up and Sit Down has created another enticing long read for the site, this time about his rediscovery of chess following a brief childhood stint playing the wrong rules. There aren’t many people around writing gaming stories with such strong imagery and humour, and even if you don’t give a rook’s arse about the game you should load this up and let it lap over your eyeballs. Brendan also writes similarly deep, thoughtful pieces about video games over at Rock Paper Shotgun - you can check out his recent Elite: Dangerous diaries (there are five of them) here if you like that sort of thing.

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