Essen Spiel 2018

Flying across the world for four days of a game fair was well worth the experience.

Connected with some great people, learned about some cool companies, and played a ton of fun games.

Highlights:

• Cool games: Planet, 8Bit Box, Sorcerer, Trade on the Tigris, Luxor
• Meeting designers Reiner Knizia and Uwe Rosenberg
• Catching up with folks I met at Gen Con
• Meeting new publishers/companies, like BackerKit (from San Francisco) and Helvetiq (from Europe)

Unfortunately, playtesting wasn’t quite a focus of the fair (for example: there wasn’t a Protospiel).  Nonetheless, it was a great experience to attend.

An attempt at playtesting

Such an honor to meet such great designers!