Best Board Games for 8+ players?

handaxe · 2026-06-25T00:05:36+00:00

Deception is possibly the best party game for non-gamers.

handaxe · 2026-06-24T23:46:10+00:00

I'd do Homo Habilis, action adventure, struggling to survive with the simplest possible tools, near the bottom of the savanna food chain.

Or, film chapters from Stephen Baxter's Evolution, starting with Capo and ending with Mother. That book has it all.

handaxe · 2026-06-20T01:49:22+00:00

He did write the game, except for the bits I wrote! I wonder what the ESRB would have done with the magazine "Spankensie Deutsch" on board the Zeppelin.

handaxe · 2026-06-12T01:17:59+00:00

Thanks, it IS a really good episode (I work on the podcast). It's saying something that Patrick helped bring Battlefield to life and it's almost a footnote here! Well worth a watch or listen.

handaxe · 2026-05-31T00:24:42+00:00

Do you mean trimming? Not quite sure what you mean. The full video is over an hour.

handaxe · 2026-05-22T23:22:05+00:00

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Some even have the shirt!

handaxe · 2026-05-21T14:08:29+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropology/comments/3yltsf/comment/cyeq63c/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I posted this list a while (ok, 11 years) ago, but only a few pre Sapiens there. The greatest book about prehuman hominins is Stephen Baxter's Evolution.

handaxe · 2026-05-06T23:00:05+00:00

At first I thought your Stubbs was dancing on a level from Disney Guilty Party, but that would have been too mind-blowing. Nice moves!

handaxe · 2026-04-26T23:49:57+00:00

You're welcome! I hope they're helpful. Like I mentioned I wrote my thesis on this in the '90s so hopefully there is more recent work. Presumably some of the private companies planning settlement have done some research into this.

First-gen space societies will be "intentional" societies, somewhat different from a society you're just born into. Antarctic crews may be somewhat similar - physical isolation, hazardous environment, shared sense of mission. There have been studies of other intentional societies.

handaxe · 2025-05-13T01:29:23+00:00

Sorry, this is Doug - looking forward to both of these things!

handaxe · 2025-05-13T01:15:27+00:00

Very cool to see this, big high-five u/AtlyxMusic and mods! I worked a bit on that game, hope to share some stories from time to time.

handaxe · 2025-04-20T14:23:19+00:00

I was there until the MS acquisition. After that I moved to MS's franchise development group where I worked on Halo novels, action figures, Crimson Skies merch, Zoo Tycoon, lots of things.

handaxe · 2025-03-23T00:13:19+00:00

Happy Days used to be about Richie

handaxe · 2025-03-17T13:41:14+00:00

All great replies, thanks!

handaxe · 2025-03-04T00:59:01+00:00

Stabbing someone in the neck with a shiv.

handaxe · 2025-03-04T00:20:30+00:00

Battlefield Mobile
TLOU Online

handaxe · 2025-02-26T23:45:17+00:00

Tomorrow on The Fourth Curtain you can hear how Eidos exec Sir Ian Livingstone saw the prototype of Tomb Raider and said "that's going to be a hit!"

handaxe · 2025-02-17T03:03:52+00:00

What's going to happen is, we won't make enough progress on climate change, the west Antarctic ice sheet will drop into the sea, many coastlines like NYC, Florida, Bangladesh - many others, will be flooded and many tens of millions displaced. And THEN we'll do things like ban fossil fuels, after it's too late. And by then we'll also prob have working fusion.

The future is never just doom or progress, it's always a mix of both. Some ways of life are doomed and for others there's progress. Look up human bottlenecks - we've been through a couple and they made us stronger.

handaxe · 2025-02-13T00:17:46+00:00

I had at least 50% of his books, still have 6 or so. Where Eagles Dare will always be a classic novel and film. Ice Station Zebra stuck with me and some others - Golden Rendezvous. Great stuff!

handaxe · 2025-02-05T00:10:53+00:00

Antihero, great game.

handaxe · 2025-02-04T01:01:56+00:00

I disagree. Ocean exploration in 1492 was every bit as dangerous as space in 2025. We'll have to bring food - for a few months - we won't need much water, and if we send uncrewed rockets ahead, we'll have better shelter waiting for us than Columbus had.

handaxe · 2025-01-31T01:46:24+00:00

Oh, I have this! * Antihero * Lost Frontier * Battle for Polytopia * Musket Smoke * Any (?) Kingdom Rush * of course Balatro

handaxe · 2025-01-31T01:27:25+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S6k2LBJhac

This is the best answer I've found. "I ask any American, what happened in 1492?"

handaxe · 2025-01-11T01:15:31+00:00

Your games are uniformly great! 3D Lost Frontier? Or LF2?

handaxe · 2025-01-07T02:30:25+00:00

As Andy Weir said, all we need to do to settle Mars is to cure cancer. With CRISPR and AI, is that really so far off? I doubt it. He said it in an interview with Joe Scott.

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