Author Archives: Ted Alspach

The Fundamental Flaw with The Traitors

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Ted Alspach

Author’s note: Yeah, this is about a TV show, not a game. But it’s a TV show that’s clearly based on a game, and I’ve seen a ton of social media posts about how this is Ultimate Werewolf the TV … Continue reading →

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Werewords and Oink

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Ted Alspach

Recently, there’s been a bit of hubbub about a few Tweets from Oink games, claiming that I copied Insider with Werewords after they supposedly turned down a request to license the game from them: This article is to clarify what … Continue reading →

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Bagging Monthly #3: Bagging on the Road

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Ted Alspach

When I go to gaming get togethers, the one question I’m consistently asked tends to be “How tall are you?” to which I say something particularly clever, and then change the subject to boardgame bagging. After all, spreading the love … Continue reading →

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Bagging Monthly #2: Bag Size Consistency

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Ted Alspach

Welcome back to the only regular Opinionated Gamer column that provides an in-depth look at boardgame storage practices, techniques and guidelines. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe the other OG columnists didn’t all clamor to write this first, … Continue reading →

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Bagging Monthly #1: Bag Quality

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Ted Alspach

Years ago, our game group (the infamous California FNVP’s) used to joke a lot about proper bagging of games, from bag quality to how to properly organize game bits within games. Someone (might have been me, not sure anymore) mentioned … Continue reading →

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Professional-looking Prototype Creation

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Ted Alspach

By Ted Alspach Since I’ve been working on Suburbia for a few years, I’ve made several prototypes. In fact, even though I haven’t been keeping count, I believe I’ve made more than a dozen of them, from the original square … Continue reading →

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