I enjoy playing and hosting board games.
Here is a link to a list of the 1000+ games and expansions I’ve played and ratings for each. I also include comments for many of the games I played: Bharat’s Board Game Thoughts
Here are the main criteria I use to rate games:
- A high level of interaction through table talk.
- Support for forming a long term strategy without having to calculate multiple moves in advance.
- The ability to make decisions through table talk and watching players’ moves over a silent analysis of the game state.
- A wide variety of viable options and the ability to remain competitive after a tactical blunder.
This is how I assign ratings to games:
- 10: Games that I consistently enjoy playing that are my favorites.
- 7-9: Games I enjoy with some gameplay elements that make me not want to play them sometimes.
- 5-6: Games I occasionally enjoy in certain settings.
- 3-4: Games I dislike that I could be convinced to play.
- 2: Games I dislike that I will refuse to play.
- 1: Games I will not play due to ethical concerns around the theming, art, or gameplay.
- “-“: Games I have thoughts on that have not rated.
Some of my game designs
In 2013, I started working on a board game that was intended to be an enhanced version of Risk. Eventually it turned into a deckbuilding/area control hybrid based on the board game Go.
In 2013, I took a course on game design taught by a designer from Volition Games, Jason Scott. During the class, we worked in groups to design several board games. Here are the games that I worked on.
Galaxy Escape
