Three Cool Things About: Meltwater
Meltwater, from designer Erin Lee Escobedo and published by Hollandspiele…
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Winter Thunder: PnP vs Retail
I'm a huge fan of Print and Play wargames. Regular…
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Diagonal Move Monthly Update: October 2020
It’s monthly update time here at Diagonal Move and I…
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Sticks and Stones: Unboxing
Sticks and Stones is a 2 Player tactical hex and…
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Meltwater: Unboxing Video
Meltwater is a 2 player strategy game designed by Erin…
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Guilford, Saratoga, Brandywine Tri Pack (GMT Games): Component Overview Video
There's a lot of stuff inside GMT's Battles of the…
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Interview: Tom Russell, Co-founder of Hollandspiele and Designer of Irish Gauge.
Tom Russell, co-founder of independent publisher Hollandspiele, joins Diagonal Move…
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Three Cool things about…Blood Before Richmond: Gaines’s Mill
During the last week I have been getting to grips…
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Diagonal Move Monthly Update: September 2020
Time for another (belated) monthly update! And…September was relatively quiet…
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SpaceCorp (GMT Games): Solo Playthrough – Starfarers Era
This final video in a series of three playthroughs of…
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SpaceCorp (GMT Games) : Solo Playthrough – Planeteers Era
This second video in a series of three playthroughs of…
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SpaceCorp 2025 – 2300AD: Mariners Era Solo Playthrough Video
SpaceCorp 2025 - 2300AD, designed by John Butterfield and published…
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Winter Thunder (Battle of the Bulge) – Overview/How to Play Video
Winter Thunder is the second in my series of playthrough…
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Interview: Phil Walker-Harding, designer of Sushi Go and Barenpark
Phil Walker-Harding, designer of Sushi Go, Barenpark and Gizmos joins…
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Learning Peloponnesian War – Video
Peloponnesian War, designed by Mark Herman and published by GMT…
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Adrenaline: Solo Playthrough Video
Once upon a time...I played far more video games than…
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The Battle for Ramadi: Playthrough Video
I'm a huge fan of PnP wargames. I may have…
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Interview: Gemma Newton, Plotalot Designer and Founder of Moonstone Games
Gemma Newton, designer of Plotalot and founder of Moonstone Games,…
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Diagonal Move: Monthly Update – August 2020
Hello! Welcome to the first (actually fourth) entry in an…
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The Joy of Print & Play
I'm a huge fan of Print & Play games. They…
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Clinic: Solo Playthrough Video
Hello again. You may be thinking that I've featured Clinic…
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COIN Series
Interview: Volko Ruhnke, creator of the COIN series
This week, Volko Ruhnke, designer of Nevsky, Labyrinth: The War…
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No Retreat! French & Polish Fronts – A Quick Look Video
No Retreat! The French & Polish Front is a 2-player,…
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Interview: Cameron Art, on Real Time Word Games and Publishing Online Magazines
Cameron Art, publisher of online magazine The Board Game Bulletin…
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Battle Hymn Vol 1 – System Overview/How to Play
Is it me or are there just not enough, game…
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Interview: Brian Train, Designer of Colonial Twilight and Brief Border Wars
Brian Train, designer of A Distant Plain, Colonial Twilight, and…
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Sprawlopolis – Solo Playthrough Video
I'm in a city building mood at the moment. After…
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Battle Hymn Vol 1 – Gettysburg Campaign AAR
Battle Hymn Vol 1 is a hex and counter simulation…
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Town Center – How to Play Video
Town Center from Alban Viard, published by Ludicreations, is one…
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Wingspan – A Quick Look Video
1-5 player wildlife themed engine builder, Wingspan, has created quite…
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Interview: David Turczi on Complex Game Design (Part 2/2)
In part 2 of our interview with David Turczi, he…
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Interview: David Turczi talks about Anachrony, Kitchen Rush and his career so far (Part 1/2)
David Turczi, creator of Anachrony, Kitchen Rush and many more…
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Machi Koro: A Quick Look Video
Machi Koro, a 2-4 player city building game, was the…
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Interview: Richard Breese, ‘Key’ series creator and founder of R&D Games
Richard Breese, designer of Keydom, one of the first games…
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Minecraft: Builders & Biomes – Component Overview Video
Well, this is new. After several years of writing about…
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Interview: Rita Modl on Men at Work
Rita Modl joins Diagonal Move to discuss the development and…
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Wendake: A Quick Look Video
Designed by Danilo Sabia and published by Placentia Games, Wendake…
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Battle Hymn Vol 1 – Quick Look Video
Battle Hymn Vol 1 landed on my doorstep the other…
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Interview: Matthew Dunstan, designer of Monumental
Matthew Dunstan, designer of Monumental and co-creator of the Adventure…
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So you want to design a board game?
During a recent interview with Hermann Luttman, the creator of…
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