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Here it is, here it is, the 5th Year-End Review of Scorpion Masqué, in words, thoughts, and numbers!Year-End Review?For newcomers, my name is Christian Lemay, and I founded Scorpion Masqué in 2006. Every year since 2016 I have put together an overview of our previous 12 months of activity, and I give my thoughts on the boardgame industry, and how it has evolved over this time. In addition to this, I also offer up some nice and crunchy financial details.Scorpion Masqué is a boardgame publisher. Our job consists of…

L’article de Mathieu Baiget décortiquant les droits que retire un auteur de la vente d’un jeu a secoué quelque peu la blogosphère ludique l’été dernier. L’auteur y souligne à quel point il est loin de pouvoir vivre de ses créations, malgré des ventes de 5 000 exemplaires de son jeu. Je vous invite à le lire ici.

During our development of Zombie Teenz Evolution, we ran 2 successive playtesting sessions: the first with 5 families, and the second with 4 families. Here is what we learned.Most people will invent a rule rather than look it up.It turns out that the majority of people will not refer to the rulebook when they question a game's rules, and would rather invent or guess a rule instead of looking it up.Most people will read the rules once before the first game, and then never again.