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In the first part of this personal interview, Jamey Stegmaier explained how he acquired the key skills to be so successful with Stonemaier Games. In the second part, Jamey Stegmaier from Stonemaier Games describes how he would like to be remembered.

Jamey Stegmaier from Stonemaier Games reveils which personal skills helped him become so successful.

Fields of Arle is a complex worker placement game for 1-2 players by Uwe Rosenberg and Feuerland Spiele. Its setting is farming in the small East Frisian town Arle where Uwe’s father grew up.

Yinsh is an abstract 2-player strategy game within the so-called “Gipf” series by Kris Burm. It’s on rank 2 for abstract games on boardgamegeek, followed by two other games from the Gipf series.

Board games that try to simulate the feeling of a sport usually fail. It is difficult to create the same kind of dynamic of a sport in a board game. Heroes of Jugger TTG  positively surprised me as a game designer and jugger player.

Marco Polo is a complex strategy game and has won the Deutsche Spielepreis in 2015. Especially the very asymetric characters contribute the strategic depth and popularity of the game. Thus, I want to share some really useful hints in this Marco Polo strategy guide.

2015 is about to end so I am wondering which games were the best of 2015.

When I host a gaming session I often struggle which game fits best with our group size. So I went through Boardgamegeek (a popular board game forum) to find the best 20 party games and sorted them by best play count, minimum age, average playing time and weight.