Bruno Faidutti

@faidutti.com

Boardgame designer, historian

I finally got this morning my author copies of Friendly Fishing, designed "with" Alex Randolph, which looks really cute. I was expecting the box to be bigger, but it's much better to have this game in the same collection as my Venture Angels and one of my favorite card games, Trinket Trove.

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I won't be Indy's Gen Con. It's far away, it's too big, it's expensive, and I've blown my carbon footprint these last few years. Anyway, there will be two and a half new games from me there this year : • Seashells, a light collection game with really cute pieces at KTBG.

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Dans le débat sur l’euthanasie, quand un catho dit « la vie est sacrée », il faut entendre « mon Dieu veut des offrandes de souffrance humaine ».

Democrazy is back in Spanish, through GDM games. Jolly Thinkers' bilingual Chinese / English edition, Animocrazy, is also still available. Democrazy est de retour en espagnol, chez GDM games. La version bilingue chinois/anglais chez Jolly Thinkers, Animocrazy, est également toujours disponible.

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I'm leaving tomorrow morning for the Cannes "festival des jeux". If you are a publisher curious about my prototypes, or interested in revamping some of my old stuff, or if you are just some interested, in meeting me to discuss any games related matter, please message me.

Soirée autour de mes jeux au Duchesse, le bar à jeux de Belleville - Fruit Cocktail, 6 Suspects, Harvest Valley, et tout au fond le prototype de Get a Pet, qui cherche toujours un éditeur.

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Cela faisait longtemps que je n'avais rien ajouté à mon site sur la licorne, juste quelques images ici ou là. Je ne sais pas encore si je vais vraiment m'y remettre, mais voici déjà un article sur l'orfèvrerie de, ou à la manière de, la Renaissance et l'âge baroque. faidutti.com/blog/licorne...

Travaux d’orfèvre

Les orfèvres de l’âge baroque ne croyaient guère aux licornes, mais ce n’était pas une raison pour cesser, entre rocaille et nautiles, de les représenter. Les orfèvres de la Renaissance ont à l’occ…

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Moon Colony Bloodbath is about 2000 times more fun than Dominion. The old Magical Athlete was goo, the new one is fantastic. Two very different old style games, two great games. There's a French proverb which says that the best soups are made in old pots.

If you are a new boardgame publisher, or just someone I don’t meet regularly, and are interested in having a look at my prototypes in Cannes, just message me. I scheduled very few appointments so far this year, and still have many free spots.

Alii neminem unum civem tantum eminere debere, ut legibus interrogari non possit: nihil tam æquandæ libertatis esse, quam potentissimum quemque posse dicere causam. Quid autem tuto cuiquam, nedum summam rempublicam, permitti, si ratio non sit reddenda? Livy, History of Rome, book 38.

There is some dark irony in the US trying to destroy the EU and, at the same time, telling they want Europe to be more like the US. If there is one domain in which we should copy the US, it's in creating United States of Europe.

I don‘t know if Biden was becoming senile or not, but even if he was, at least he still had enough wits to delegate decisions to the adults in the room. Doesn‘t seem to be the case now.

Even when Trump loses the midterms and is more or less neutralized for the two next years, the harm is done. The rest of the world now knows that the US is no more an ally we can trust.

Le jeu qui aura mis du temps à arriver, mais j'ai finalement reçu mes boîtes de Fruit Cocktail - que je vais donc présenter ce vendredi soir au Duchesse. The game was delayed a bit, its publisher being taken over by another one, but it's now here and I just got my author copies of Fruit Cocktail.

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I'm surprised that no one seems to make the parallel between Donald Trump's recent attack on Europe's internet regulation and Britain's opium wars. Of course, we're not at war with the US, so it's far less serious, but the reasoning is the same.

So Trump is giving up helping democratic Europe fend off Russian encroachment, is giving up helping Japan, Korea and Taiwan limit Chinese influence, and has the US army focus on hitting fishing boats in the Caribbean and marching through US Cities. Is this making America great again ?