Britain Under Steam

The design that began as Britain Under Steam morphed into 18GB: The Railways of Great Britain, and that game was published by Deep Thought Games in 2018. Meanwhile, I've left this blog to languish. But today I wrote up some thoughts about "The 1835 Family" and I need somewhere to post them, and I've decided to use this blog as a suitable site for this article and any other gaming articles that may or may not follow.

Sunday, 1 September 2019

The 1835 Family

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1835, designed by Michael Meier-Bachl, was published in 1990, when it was the third 18xx game to be released (after 1829 and 1830). It intr...

Repurposing this blog

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The design that began as Britain Under Steam morphed into 18GB: The Railways of Great Britain , and that game was published by Deep Thought...
Sunday, 21 February 2016

On Capitalisation

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With the release of version 28 to playtesters, 18GB is basically ready for the wider world.  But if I were to revise it further, I'd be...
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Thursday, 26 November 2015

More streamlining?

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In my most recent post, I reported on changes to address the third-company problem .  Players that managed to buy a third company had been w...
Thursday, 13 August 2015

Increasing liability

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With a number of playtest games on record, I am able to analyze them for common patterns. One such pattern I found was that the player who m...

Streamlining

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Someone commented that I haven't given an update here for six months, which is a fair point.  We have been testing during that time and ...
Sunday, 4 January 2015

18GB Status Update

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I regard the core design of 18GB as stable and I'm well into the development or "tweaking" phase.  This requires lots of test ...
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Dave Berry
Work: I am the Enterprise Architect in the Information Systems group of the University of Edinburgh.
Play: I like board games, particularly those in the 18xx family; music, although I don't play myself; and reading, especially science fiction.
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