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Film you've seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LotR or Marvel.

Head and shoulders image of a man with grey hair swept to one side. He smiles at the viewer. He is wearing an open-necked white shirt and a blue suit jacket. Visible behind him but blurred are several board games on shelves and a giant wooden pawn. Asmodee CEO Thomas Koegler.

Head and shoulder photo of a woman smiling broadly at the viewer. She has closely braided dark/grey hair on one side of her head, which falls in a cascade of red and black braids on the other down beyond her shoulders. She wears a white top and green/brown open cardigan. Zaria Davis, interim executive director at board game trade organisation GAMA.

Upper body photo of four people standing underneath a sign which says Panda Game Manufacturing. Two women are in the centre, the one on the left with long black hair, the one to the right with long blond hair. They are flanked on the left by a man with a black polo shirt and orange lanyard, and to the right by a man wearing a dark blue t-shirt which says Boardssey. The black-haired woman is holding a cartoon wooden panda head. Panda Game Manufacturing CEO Michael Lee, far left, chief marketing officer Jennifer Lee, left, and Boardssey co-founders Anca Bujor and Luis Francisco Baroni Coutinho at Spiel Essen 2025.

Head and shoulders photo of a man with a bald head and short dark beard with grey in, showing a big smile. He is wearing a very, very pale blue shirt open at the collar, and a dark blue jacker. Steve Buckmaster, CCO at board game giant Asmodee.

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Next year the autumn Game Market is 1 week before SPIEL!!?!

Will be tough to go to both.

With Game Market over the convention season this year is over, too.

In 2026 we start again with IdeaG in Parma on January 10-11.

They did a bunch. Also toys.
In this one the dice looked cool but it seemed to be a very basic sugoroku game.

Found this old Nintendo board game at a flea market in Tokyo today. It is not on BGG as far as I can see. I didn't pick it up. 10k yen was a bit too much, even with the good exchange rate.

Check out the dice.

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Yes I had a good nights sleep. Poor man's first class.

Arrived in Seoul. Had the whole row to myself so I could lie down. Now on to eat some delicious food.

The owner of Mayday games copied our games TOC TOC Woodman and Coconuts and after he lost the distribution license.

Good job!

People who stop moving after an exit. You gotta love them.

On my way to Seoul to put my luggage and then onwards to Tokyo for Game Market.

Uff soweit bin ich noch nicht, dass ich zwei separate Gruppen habe. Das ging immer nach hinten los.

Schwanhäußer family on the road

Love it that we have two Game Markets on the same weekend.

Would be cool to have something like it in Europe, too.

Thanks I will check them out.

I remember back then I played it for 12 hours straight like in a trance, but at the end of the flight I hit some kind of progress limit. So I am wondering how it changed since then.

Not much! I bought it the day it came out at Early Access for another flight from Seoul to Germany and have not touched it since. I think you convinced me.

Thanks! Bananza is almost complete and Silksong I am at a spot that needs a lot of focus, so that would be great to finish both games, but at the same time I am a bit addicted to Ball X Pit right now.

City Chase funktionierte auch wunderbar, genauso wie Coconuts aber da habe ich keine Lust mehr die Kokosnüsse aufzuheben. Fantastische Reiche und Karak hab ich noch nicht ausprobiert, dafür letztens Boss Fighters QR und das wurde auch sehr positiv aufgenomen.

Nach einigen AG Terminen mal eine Zwischenbilanz:

Strike geht wirklich immer und allen gefällt's.
MicroMacro mag ich ja total gerne aber da war nie die Ruhe für nach einem Schultag. Flip7 dagegen ist mein Spiel für große Gruppen, wenn mal andere AGs ausfallen und ich mehr SuS habe.

For tomorrow's flight to Seoul I want to bring only one:

Steam Deck with Ball X Pit, Vampire Survivors, Hades 2
or
Switch 2 with Silksong, Balatro, DK Bananza

Which one would you choose?

Have fun in Venice!