J. A. Keener

I have owned a copy of Terraforming Mars for a while, but I was waiting to write up my thoughts on it until I had a chance to sink my…

Life the past few weeks has been hard. We packed up everything at the start of the month and moved to Michigan for a great opportunity. The benefits of the…

Designed by Régis Bonnesseé and published by Libellud, Dice Forge is a “resource engine” game that incorporates the luck of dice. As with other resource engine style games, your goal…

I hit 10% completion on the first draft for Of Storm and Sky, so I decided to celebrate by doing a board game review. I have been trying to incentivize…

This is a review I have been wanting to write for a long time, but I wanted to make sure I played through the game a few more times before…

I am slowly but surely closing in the gaps in my board game collection. A lot of the games I owned played up to 4 people, so I have been…

My lovely wife was kind enough to gift to me a pair of new board games for my birthday this year. One of those games, Machi Koro, is a relatively…

Busy, busy, busy! With writing, querying Stormgate around, the new job, and the baby on the way, the website has taken a back seat. But, I decided to take some…

Trains was designed by Hisashi Hayashi and published by Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) in 2013. A deck-building game for between 2 and 4 players, Trains plays very similarly to Dominion,…

I work out of my home in North Liberty, Iowa, and as any telecommuter will tell you, lack of human interaction is the largest and most difficult aspect of the…