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Photo impression of .... Spiel'19 Essen take a sneak preview ....

Posted by Henk Rolleman

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31 Oct 2019

Henk Rolleman

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Utrecht

The first photos I have now uploaded from Spiel'19 you can find them via this https://www.boardgamegeek.com/tag/henk.rolleman.spiel2019 the rest of the images next the coming days with the same tag. The report will follow later ... Enjoy!]]

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Photo Impression of ... a flash back of Essen '18 ... What we did last year ?

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04 Oct 2019

Henk Rolleman

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Utrecht

Many people are already working on Essen 2019 ... the lists, the hypes, the people and encounters.
What did last year in Essen .... what were the highlights and the titles that appealed to us.
Here is another image report from last Essen and a look back. Which titles appealed to you?
Last year I had the opportunity to visit the fair for only two and a half days. With my camera I try to capture the atmosphere, the people, the beautiful game elements and all the craziness.

I always make an impression of the fair, showroom and boardgame prices, people & designers with their passion.
Below a report from my point of view at Spiel. For those how are not able to visit Spiel is it maybe a little touch of the boardgame world in Essen. A flashback and enjoy!

Crossing the German border

Some road to go ...

... and some Downforce needed

Finally arriving at the Messe for Spiel

The Press conference with
with Ms Metzler, Mr Hutter & Mr Zirpins

With information from the board game industry trends and developments

The "Neuheiten Schau"

Some loud cheaters

Cracking Codes ..

Under presure ....

Tom Vasel under suspicious circumstances .... not approved!

Having Fun!

War or Peace ... The Peacemaker

People & Boardgames

Looking for that beautiful gem

Oh happy days!

Board Game: Dice Hospital: Deluxe Add-Ons Box

Is there a docter in the house .... Mike Nudd

Yes there is a real docter in the house

With some Game Changers as medicine with Dr Qwispel

Some Crazy Dutch...

Some F(i)eld Workers ... hard to beat!

Bringing people together

Or not ....

70 Years of Scrabble

Board Game: Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game

Under investigation

Some wonderful Expansions .... thanks to Antoine

Some beautiful game designs

The Kraken has come .... Antoine Bauza

Board Game: Architects of the West Kingdom

Architects of new Kingdom

And vikings from the north

Die Hard gamers ... or Soccer fans

Some lost Romans with Forum Frajanum

Some notorious Portuguese adventurers

Some heavy Stuff

Monstrously fun word games with Vlaada Chvátil

Colorfull People .. Ying-Tan Liu

Dress to impress

You got That!

Drawing new Paper Tales - Christine Alcouffe

Paper Tales

Quicker than Quick .... @#$%.. with Liu Xianmiao

Some new strategies with Wei-Cheng Cheng

CSI Essen with Ignacy Trzewiczek & Jakub Łapot

Education .... learing kids How to rob a bank

Franchise

Lift Off

Cuzco

Arraial

Raids with the family

Race to the New Found Land

Gallaria

Indonesian Boardgames

Indonesian pavilion

Spel Magazine writes about Indonesian boardgaming and
the relations with the Dutch

People are People

Some take the highway .... Inka Brand & Markus Brand

Supply and demand

That look if you know he's gona lose .... Stellium

Greetings from Polynesia .... Raiatea

Where the Roman meets the far East - Forum Trajanum

Board Game: Evolution: The Origin of Species

I love that selling from the suitcase ...

Mystical Seeds ... are growing

Solenia

Carpe Diem

Dreaming is over ... live at Essen

Okavango

Reykholt

Chartered: The Golden Age

Majolica

Orbis

Discover: Lands Unknown

The River

Almost One Week of Essen .... One Week Ultimate Werwolf

Strangely smelling jars on the table

New flying object ... with Sébastien Dujardin

Father & Son

International Gamers Awards Winner - Code Names Duet

International Gamers Awards Winner - Raja of the Ganges

This is what Essen does ..... Mr & Mrs Dujardin

Driving home again ...

To see the full report just click here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/247865/what-we-did-essen-...

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Photo Impression of ... Gaming in the Netherlands - Ducosim Fair in Amersfoort and the nominations for the Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2019!

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01 Oct 2019

Henk Rolleman

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Netherlands
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Utrecht

Ducosim organizes a game fair in Amersfoort in the Netherlands three times a year. This is for boardgames, miniature games, and familyand heavy wargames.
This time I went with my son to the Summer edition with an extra festivity namely the
nomination of the Dutch Games Prize for Family and Expert to be made known to all relevant jury members.
One of the conditions for the prize is that the Dutch game rules are present in the game box. Since the Netherlands
being a relatively small country does not translate all titles, but in the meantime, enough beautiful titles are published that last year.

The main hall of the Ducosim Fair

The Dutch Games Prize, the quality award for Dutch-style board games. This game prize was created in 2001 by the national games association Ducosim, to offer the playing consumer an independent value judgment.

The Dutch Games Prize is divided into two categories: the Dutch Games Prize - Family and the Dutch Games Prize - experts. A family game is suitable for a large audience, including children from 8 years.
An expert game requires a little more playing experience.

For the best family game in the Netherlands nominated:

Unfortunately I could only made a small impression cause I had a limited time due to my mother's birthday The fair is also characterized by small publishers and designers with prototypes. Also 999 Games always gives room at this fair to show your own design to a professional team of game developers. Quined Games showed its new Essen releases that could be played. All nominated games from the Dutch Game Prize we presented by the publishers so people and press could discover this great games. One of the nice features of this fair is that you can easily play the new release of all well know publishers, especially in the Dutch language.

De Kwakzalvers van Kakelenburg of 999 Games

Welcome to of Jumping Turtle Games

Clever of 999 Games

For the best expert game in the Netherlands nominated:

Rovers van de Noordzee of White Goblin Games

Gentes of Game Brewer

Wingspan of 999 Games

Some small impression of the convention

Teotihuacan: City of Gods of Jumping Turtle Games

Welcome to

Century: Eastern Wonders

City of the Big Shoulders - Quined Games

Game Overview - Quined Games

Raiders of the North Sea of White Goblin Games

La Stanza of Quined Games

De Kwakzalvers van Kakelenburg of 999 Games

Terramara Quined Gamees

Game Overview

Players view

Wingspan of 999 Games

Raiders of the Northsea (Rovers van de Noordzee)

Gentes

Gentes Close Up

Wingspan

Welcome to

Welcom to Box & Components

The Nominees

The Nominees

Hope you enjoyed a Dutch glimp of our board game community.

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Photo impression of .... The most inspiring and influencing designers of our community

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24 Sep 2019

Henk Rolleman

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In recent years I have been taking photos of the designers who inspire, design and leaving impressions in our playing environment of games. Essen has always a nice atmosphere to meet these inspirers and I try to capture a beautiful picture of their love for our hobby.
In Essen I always try to find new designers, designers who inspire my hobby so much. This year I hope to meet some new people again, the person behind the game.

How many Designers do you know by face or name? .... Without cheating

The Influencers from our community

Board Game: First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet

Board Game: Terraforming Mars: Venus Next

Board Game: Discoveries: The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Board Game: Lancaster: Henry V – The Power of the King

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Photo impression of .... Machi Koro Soccer Edition (Voetbal)

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04 Sep 2019

Henk Rolleman

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The Soccer edition for all sports fans… this game is a rethemed into the world of soccer manager.
Bring you club to a higher level with new facilities, training ground, shops, new players a bigger station better social media and so on ….
It fun, fast and entertaining for soccer fans and is a very light simulation of your favorite football club .

With my two boys we had a lot of fun building up our club, expand and manage you investments and finances. I my option a recommendation for families who likes the soccer matches and the Champions league.

Machi Koro Soccer Edition (Voetbal / Fussball)

A Four Player game in progress

Buying a new player for the team

Upgrading you Club in appearance and performance

Creating your fan shop ....

Buying a new Player in the transfer period

Game Overview - The season has started

As you see a little inpirations of the performance of AFC Ajax in the last Champions League season.

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Photo impression of .... Ohanami

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03 Sep 2019

Henk Rolleman

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Ohanami is a little Cardgame in a Japanese setting. The thematically it's light but colorfull and cheerful.

Somewhere in one of the Japanese gardens

Box & Components

Colorful cards like a flower painting

Opening the Box

The four types of Colour cards

Ohanami consists of a deck of 120 cards that are numbered from 1-120, with each card having one of four symbols on it. The game lasts three rounds, with players scoring at the end of each round, in addition to bonus scoring at the end of the game.

Game Overview with four players

At the start of a round, each player receives a hand of ten cards. Each player chooses two cards, then passes the remaining cards to the left. All players reveal their cards at the same time, then decide whether to use 0, 1, or 2 of them in personal rows of cards. When you start a row, you can use any card; to add a card to an existing row, that card must be higher than the row's highest card or lower than the lowest one. A player can have at most three rows of cards. Discard any cards you don't use.

Players hand

The game play will repeat this drafting and passing. When they have played ten cards, the first round will end. Players will receive 3 points for each blue card in their rows on the table.
At the start of round two each one will receive ten new card on their hands. At the end of the 2th round for each blue card 3 points will be given and 4 for each green card.

Close Up

In the 3th round will work the same but at the end player will receive 7 points for each of the gray cards in their garden rows. Also the blue and green will be counted again. The pink Cherries will be counted two but in a pyramidal scoring, one card 1 point, 2 … 3point .. 3 cards 6 point etc. ..

Players view

At the end of round 3 all points will be counted from each round and the gardener with the most points will have the best garden.

The game play is solid and fast and easy to learn. For me it works as a little filler or played with my teenagers at home.

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16 Jan 2019

Henk Rolleman

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The 2018 Picture of the Year contest is open on BGG and post your favorite photo of 2018!

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/251755/2018-picture-y...

Just Catch my Cool Fish !

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Photo Impression of ... Gaming in the Netherlands - Ducosim Fair in Amersfoort and the nominations for the Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2018!

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07 Oct 2018

Henk Rolleman

(henk.rolleman)

Netherlands
Eemdijk
Utrecht

Ducosim organizes a game fair in Amersfoort, the Netherlands three times a year. This is for board games, miniature games, and heavy wargames.
This time I went with my son to the Summer edition with an extra festivity namely the
nomination of the Dutch Games Prize for Family and Expert to be made known to all relevant jury members.
One of the conditions for the prize is that the Dutch game rules are present in the game box. Since the Netherlands
being a relatively small country does not translate all titles, but in the meantime, enough beautiful titles are published.

The Dutch Games Prize, the quality award for Dutch-style board games. This game prize was created in 2001 by the national games association Ducosim, to offer the playing consumer an independent value judgment.

The Dutch Games Prize is divided into two categories: the Dutch Games Prize - Family and the Dutch Games Prize - experts. A family game is suitable for a large audience, including children from 8 years.
An expert game requires a little more playing experience.

For the best family play in the Netherlands nominated:

Luxor - Forgotten Treasures - Queen Games

Azul - Asmodee Netherlands / Hot games

The Mind - White Goblin Games

For the best expert game in the Netherlands nominated:

Chimera Station - The Game Brewer

Gaia Project - White Goblin Games

Paco Ŝako - Hot Games

The fair is meant for the members and also for the public, which plays a board game less often.
In the halls, the new titles are often demonstrated by publishers so you can always sit and play
is explained enthusiastically.

There are often beginning or smaller Dutch publishers at the fair that can be found with a prototype or a starting Kickstarter.
demonstrate their game.

Here is a small visual impression:

Paco Sako

A new romance ...

Paco Ŝako - Overview

Enjoying the Reef

Divers View

Let the Reef grow again!

The mind

Spring Meadow of White Goblin Games

Saboteur the Boardgame of 999 Games

Ruthless is a pirate-themed game in which players will gather their crew and fight with their opponents. 999 Games will do the Dutch version of the game.

Lost into Space with Gaia Project - The game was nominated for the Nederlandse Spellenprijs 2018

Gather your ants in Micropolis, and send them through the anthill to do your bidding

Lead a group of tourists through a crowded zoo while being chased by a giant gorilla

Paparazzo will be released in a Kickstarter

Game Overview

A beautiful blockbuilder - The Climbers from 999 Games

Gùgōng - China, 1570. China is under the reign of the Longqing Emperor - from Game Brewer

Game Overview

Chartered: The Golden Age - A new Dutch production of Alexander Kneepkens will be released in a Kickstarter

Chartered: The Golden Age - You are a merchant, looking to profit from the budding trade in Amsterdam in the 1600s and participate in the growth of a multitude of chartered enterprises - A Game from Jolly Dutch Productions

Establishing your first warehouses in Amsterdam, contributing to the city that will grow to become the wealthiest city in the western world

Close Up of the houses of Amsterdam

Amsterdam in 1600

You can become the best merchant, build chartered enterprises and purchase stock to profit from their expected growth

Chimera Station - A new twist to the worker placement genre: customizable workers - From the Game Brewer

Close Up

My son is enjoying the Tombe of Luxor

On the hunt for priceless treasures, groups of adventurers explore the legendary temple at Luxor

Adventure View

Gentes played with my oldest son in the Sunday afternoon

Gentes

All the nominated together the winners will be announced at the game spectacle in Eindhoven on Friday 9 November.

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Photo impression of .... Brass Birmingham

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07 Oct 2018

Henk Rolleman

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When I read a few months ago that Brass got a reissue with new colorful and slightly dramatic images, my interest was aroused.
Brass one of my favorite games of the past decades.
The beautifully streamlined mechanism with the action cards always gives beautiful sometimes difficult decisions.
The new Birmingham card plays well and offers, among other things, the beer and pottery new ways in which you as a player can put your creativity.

In the game, I always taste the historic romanticism of the industrial revolution, although the reality was really different.
The dark pewter also gives me the burden that the heavy work entailed for the ordinary workers.

For the passion of Martin Wallace, I am indebted to him how he wonderfully interweaves history and open game techniques for us
play fun at the table.

During one of the play evenings in Hilversum, I could try the game because one of the members
brought with it. But the box will also be nice in my game box.
Designers Gavan Brown, Matt Tolman, and Martin Wallace have created a beautifully refined product with Artists Lina Cossette, David Forest, and Damien Mammoliti.
brought on the market! They can do this more often!

During the evening I took some photo's during our gameplay.

Brass Birmingham an overview during the game @ the Boardgameclub in Hilversum

The Economy of Brass

Close Up ... Yes, we need some beer!

Investments & Turn order

Player Aid for new investments

Selling to the foreign market

The actions in my hand

Birmingham tells the story of competing entrepreneurs in Birmingham during the industrial revolution, between the years of 1770-1870

Forgive me for my average grammatical English .. some know it as a trademark of me .. but it keeps me
not to support the image with a bit more story.

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Photo Impression of ... Gaming in the Netherlands part two

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27 Sep 2018

Henk Rolleman

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Part two of a small impression of played games during one of the play evenings in Hilversum. Known and lesser-known games come here on the table but always played with pleasure.

Dark Moon

Great Western Trail

Metropolys

Clank!

Patrician Close Up during the game @ Boardgameclub in Hilversum - A fast and smooth game

the Middle Ages when men were men and wealthy men were inspired to build magnificent towers in order to show off how prosperous they were @ Boardgameclub in Hilversum