This is a weekly post where you leave your suggestions and feedback for Board Game Atlas! Some things to think about are:

• Feature requests (be creative, think wild!)
• What sort of content would you like to see by Board Game Atlas? (we currently do interviews and news coverage. Anything else you'd be interested in?)
• How can we make your experience here even better?
• Mention your favorite/least favorite feature
• Suggestions for industry professionals to interview (designers/artists/publishers/content creators/etc.)
• Bugs/annoyances

Also, I have two questions for everyone:

• Home page - How should we change it to look less like a store? How can we make it look lively to indicate there's an active community?
• Profile page - What sort of features would you like to see that's useful? (customizable profile page, ability to combine different users' lists, helping you pick out a game from your list of owned games based on certain criteria, etc.)

One last thing--The giveaway ends on Sunday at 9 PM PST! Thanks for everyone participating and I will do my best to make the next one even more lively :) 

What kind of gamer are you? Solo gamer? Small group? Large group? 

What does your game group look like? How did you meet them? How regularly do you meet?

What types of games hit the table most often for your group?

Personally I Game most with my children. Daughter, soon to be 8, and daughter, soon to be 6, are the ones I can most easily convince to play with me. Of course that means we can’t play for very long or very complicated games.  But we are playing Imperial Assault! Ha.

My real game group is with a really good friend from church and his brother. We don’t meet near as often as we would like - mostly every couple of weeks - but when we do it’s very fun. 

I wish we could meet more regularly but our spouses are busy and we have young children. Some day!

We seem to be developing a nice little community here! Let’s take a minute and introduce ourselves. 

I’m Brian from Rochester, MN. I’m 32 years old, married, and my wife and I have 3 beautiful girls - ages 7, 5, and 2. 

I’m the head pharmacist with a grocery store chain and spend way too much time at work. This week I’ll have put in about 45 hours. Blech. 

Nice to meet you all!

Ok, this is an update on my previous post: https://www.boardgameatlas.com/forum/ffW5oTKBpD/which-board-games-would-make-great-avatars-for-our-library

I thought about editing that post but it was going to be a bit too much to stuff in there. So here's the update on the avatars I'll be setting up and adding in the upcoming days!

• Sushi Go Party
• 10 each for Raiders and Architects and I can contact Shem Phillips for any of his other games
• Champions of Midgard and all other Grey Fox Games (which games would you like to see added?)
• I've filed a ticket on Roxley's website and waiting for a response
• Games by Alderac Entertainment Group (this is my main question--which games would make great avatars?)

EDIT: The avatars for Raiders and Architects are up!

I have realized that this type of game is lacking from my collection and I like it as a mechanic, but I don’t love it as the ONLY mechanic (think Dominion). 

I am curious if you all have some good games that use deck building around a creative theme or other mechanics? I am intrigued by Great Western Trail and Aeons End because the deck building feels like a complimentary piece. I’ve looked into Clank but it doesn’t interest me a ton. Thoughts? Suggestions?

If you haven't done so already, go and sport an avatar of your choice! https://www.boardgameatlas.com/avatars

So my question is, which board games can you think of that have awesome character designs, faction symbols, or fun iconography? If you let me know, I can reach out to the publishers behind those games and try to get their permission.

For example, I'd love to get characters from Root and Santorini added into our library some day.

Do you watch board game video content on YouTube or other sources?

Who are some of your favorite content providers?

Why do you watch video content? Board game reviews, top 10 lists, learn to play? All of the above?

When living in Minnesota, fall, winter and early spring are all prime board gaming times. As the temperature swings wildly up here right now I start to think about what I want to focus on during this most wonderful time.

The Underworld expansion for Root should be delivered to me soonish and it got me thinking that I want to hit that game hard. Play as much as I can with as many factions as I can. Use the new boards. Really get the most out of it. 

What are you looking to get the most out of his Board Game Season?

Would love feedback on my draft. After doing a couple more editing passes, I'll export to PDF and upload it.

• Rule book
• Just the card appendix

Game play changes:

• Striked out executing the bonus card due to all of the comments I've seen about it
• Changed "Score 1 card from hand" description in the card appendix to "must" from "may" since it doesn't depend on non-public information
• Erred on the side of color-boosting being cards on the same route rather than any card after the current since it simplifies teaching.
  

I am finding myself getting stuck in this place where there are games I am super interested in, but my main group of gamers either are not interested in them or they are too heavy. 

The main example of this right now is Lisboa. I am definitely becoming more interested in it. It seems like a heavy beast that the more you play, the more layers are revealed, which I love in games, plus it is gorgeous. My friends are not light gamers either, we play Gaia Project, Agricola, Terraforming Mars all with no problem (I mean our faces melt off every time we play Gaia Project but it is worth it). 

Here is my main question, do you only buy games that will get to the table? Or do you buy games that interest you (with a solo variant) and hope they make it to the table?

This is an automated weekly post to talk about the games that came out on kickstarter this past week.

• Gùgōng: Pànjūn Deluxe Expansion 1,571% of $25,000
• Yedo Deluxe Master Set 784% of $40,000
• The Path of Chaos Metal RPG Dice Set 375% of $20,000
• After the Empire 298% of $30,000
• BrainHackr: Three More Years 267% of $5,000
• The Geneva Cavern Adventures D&D 5e 252% of $1,500
• Animalchemists 236% of $5,000
• Wild In The Streets - Cybergoths 890% of $200
• Evil Baby Game Night Edition: Kickstarter Exclusive 1,306% of $300
• Star Hat Miniatures for DuckQuest Fantasy Role Playing Games 717% of $2,000
• Animal Empire: the Empire Building Card Game 210% of $3,500
• Oasis of the Elementals (for D&D 5E and Pathfinder 2E) 154% of $1,000
• CATCH THE KING - An asymetric Viking strategy game 146% of $4,000
• BodyShots | Not your average night in 120% of $2,500
• Game of Phones – What Will You Share Next? 104% of $10,000
• 28mm French & Indian War - 'Winter Campaign' French Regulars 183% of $600
• District 9: The Boardgame 182% of $60,000
• Adrenaline: Near Future, Forged in the Dark 179% of $1,000
• Crown and Dragon RPG for Savage Worlds 120% of $1,500
• Occult: A new, fast-paced and chaotic card game 109% of $3,000
• Wargamer Tree Set 103% of $500
• Sins of the Father Companion 94% of $2,000
• Crossroll Hong Kong - A strategic "Roll and Write" game 91% of $30,000
• Eryphir - A Four-Part Adventure Series for 5e D&D (S118) 86% of $2,000
• Totem! 67% of $3,000
• Zombie Run! 21% of $5,000
• Halloween Dice 54% of $500
• The Everyone Shares One Butt Game 21% of $25,000
• Champions of Legarren 13% of $6,000
• Gaons and Golems - Chess meets RPG - A game for 2-4 players 13% of $600
• Custom wooden TCG playboard 16% of $800
• Clash of the Ardennes - a World War 2 board and card game 16% of $29,000
• Curly Fu and the search for Fame 16% of $10,000
• Cast Out the Conjurer: A 2 Player Dueling Card Game 12% of $7,500
• Percentile dice combat module 10% of $2,500
• Wees N' Whoas 10% of $15,000
• Charge! 5% of $5,000
• A small acrylic stand “KANJI PIECE” with one kanji character 4% of $500,000
• The Everyone Shares One Butt Game 0% of $20,000
• CryptoWhales | A Blockchain Board Game 0% of $145,000
• Spunky Word Nuggets 0% of $35,000
• Warriors of the Black Root Forest 1,128% of $500

Back 'The Great Alcatraz Escape' on Kickstarter today, for your copy.  

The Kickstarter campaign is for 29 days.

I have interviews lined up with the following individuals. Do you have any questions related to their respective games or general curiosities about their creative process, personal life, etc.? If I get enough questions, I'll include them in the bottom of the article, something like "Questions From Our Users" for the interviewees to answer!

Again, if I get enough questions, I should be able to include them, but if there aren't enough, it may not happen :(

Here's the current lineup:

• Justine Hillgrove, artist of Battle of the Bards
• Vincent Dutrait, artist of Robinson Crusoe, Lewish & Clark, + More
• Daniel Lieske, artist of The Mysterious Forest
• Jonathan Ying, designer of Star Wars Imperial Assault, Bargain Quest, + More
• Xavier Collette, artist of Abyss
• Kevin Kichan Kim, CEO of Mandoo Games, Korean Board Game Publisher

We all know that Gloomhaven weighs a crap ton physically, but what is your preference regarding game difficulty? I think I'll always prefer heavier-weighted games, but I still enjoy most of the light games as well. What I'm curious to know is what your favorite games are in the difficulty category opposite your preferred type of game. Because I prefer games of a more difficult nature (all things comparatively, of course), I'll list five of my favorite games that don't require too much burning of the brain.

In no particular order, here are some easier games I really enjoy:

• Tsuro of the Seas
• Camel Up
• Roll for Your Life, Candyman!
• Cockroach Salad
• Monopoly Deal