On Apr 11, 8:03 pm, Rick Jones <r.t.jo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Harald Korneliussen wrote:
> > On Apr 11, 6:58 am, Rich Hutnik <richardhut...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> Boardspace.net Summer 2008 Hive + Mosquito Tournament
> >> This event begins June 1, 2008. The creator of Hive will be awarding
a
> >> trophy and introducing the new Mosquito piece.
>
> > Hive is an interesting success story, I think. Wasn't it self-
> > published originally? How often does it happen that a self-published
> > abstract actually succeeds commercially?
>
> Silverton is another example. The designer self-published the game
> under the Two Wolf name. It is now licensed to Mayfair, which has made
> some nice improvements to the rules and the components. I do not know if
> this licensing came about before or after he passed away.
> I recall seeing the designer demoing the game at Strategicon in L.A.
> when he first published it. It is, in my opinion, the *best*, most
> realistic railroad game on the market. The varying prices of commodities
> and the possibility of claims playing out are excellent features that
> make it much more realistic than Empire Builder or anything else I can
> think of.
Abstract strategies, without some sort of theming hook, usually have a
hard enough time going about it. Hive ends up being one of the
exceptions.
- Rich
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