[Green Ronin] Family Games: The 100 Best at the printer

[JLowder]

Family Games: The 100 Best, the companion volume to Hobby Games: The 100 Best, has finally gone off to the printer. Should be back and available in a couple of weeks.

In the book, the top game designers and publishers write about the most enjoyable, most cleverly designed titles of the last one hundred years. Their essays cover the spectrum from board games to card games, wargames to miniatures games to role-playing games, including old favorites and little known gems. These are the games that the designers themselves play, the ones that have inspired their most popular inventions.

Final cover is up on the Green Ronin website:
Green Ronin Online Store: Family Games: The 100 Best

The final author list:

Mike Gray: Foreword
James Lowder: Introduction and Appendix B (Family games in HG100)
Wil Wheaton: Afterword
David Millians: Appendix A (Games and education)

ESSAYISTS:
Andrea Angiolino
Keith Baker
Wolfgang Baur
Carrie Bebris
Uli Blennemann
Bill Bodden
Mike Breault
Richard Breese
Todd Breitenstein
Alessio Cavatore
Leo Colovini
William W. Connors
David "Zeb" Cook
Monte Cook
Luke Crane
Dominic Crapuchettes
Elaine Cunningham
Richard Dansky
Karl Deckard
Dale Donovan
James Ernest
Matt Forbeck
Anthony J. Gallela
Richard Garfield
Marc Gascoigne
Stephen Glenn
Eric Goldberg
Andrew Greenberg
Ed Greenwood
Jeff Grubb
Scott Haring
Bruce Harlick
Jess Hartley
Rob Heinsoo
Fred Hicks
Will Hindmarch
Kenneth Hite
Joshua Howard
Steve Jackson (Games Workshop)
Steve Jackson (Steve Jackson Games)
Paul Jaquays
Seth Johnson
Matthew Kirby
Corey Konieczka
John Kovalic
Robin D. Laws
Matt Leacock
Jess Lebow
Jon Leitheusser
Ken Levine
Nicole Lindroos
Ian Livingstone
Michelle Lyons
Hal Mangold
Jason Matthews
Erik Mona
Alan R. Moon
Colin McComb
Bruce Nesmith
Kevin Nunn
Peter Olotka
Phil Orbanes
Andrew Parks
David Parlett
Sébastien Pauchon
jim pinto
Mike Pondsmith
Chris Pramas
Lewis Pulsipher
John D. Rateliff
Sheri Graner Ray
Philip Reed
Thomas M. Reid
Susan McKinley Ross
Charles Ryan
Steven Schend
Robert J. Schwalb
Emiliano Sciarra
Jesse Scoble
Mike Selinker
Bruce Shelley
Lester Smith
Jared Sorensen
Warren Spector
Stan!
Gav Thorpe
Dan Tibbles
Jeff Tidball
John Scott Tynes
Monica Valentinelli
James Wallis
James M. Ward
Darren Watts
Tom Wham
Bruce Whitehill
John Wick
Kevin Wilson
Ray Winninger
Teeuwynn Woodruff
John Yianni

We'll reveal what games everyone covered shortly before the book ships.

Cheers,
James Lowder

 

[DaveMage]

James - did you discover new games (to you) during this process? And if so, have you tried them out?

 

[JLowder]

James - did you discover new games (to you) during this process? And if so, have you tried them out?

Absolutely. I started with a good collection, but I ended up buying at least a dozen games after Hobby Games: The 100 Best and am on my way to that number from Family Games. Some were games I hadn't heard much about, others were titles I'd heard of, but I didn't understand what it was that people liked about them. I've also bought several games as gifts based on the essays.

Cheers,
Jim