As a limited edition release a small expansion for the Green Box of Games is now available. The expansion includes:
The Green Box of Games is once again coming to SPIEL, the gigantic game fair in Essen, Germany, in October. This year we have joined forces with other Norwegian indie designers and publishers, and you can find us in Hall 5, booth 5-F109 under the banner of the “Norwegian Tabletop Game Publisher Association”.
If you want to book a meeting, to discuss distribution, game design or anything else, please send an email to contact@greenboxofgames.com.
This summer there has been a design contest for new games for the Green Box of Games. The contest has been running for the most part on the BoardGameGeek forums and in the Green Box Community Group on Facebook.
There have been a total of 14 new games proposed, most of them original, and many of them very good games, and the rules for all of them can be found on the Wiki.
And the winners are…
The Green Box of Games community is growing, and now a wiki has been created on Fandom/Wikia to make it easier for people to publish, share and discuss game ideas and designs.
The Green Box website will contain the “official” games from the rulebooks, purchase information and other official information, but new game ideas will from now on be published to the Wiki. The Wiki is completely open, so anyone can add or edit information, even without a registered user.
Link to the Wiki: http://greenbox.wikia.com Continue reading “Introducing the Community Wiki”
The “Second to None Edition” of the Green Box of Games comes with rules for 16 different games, which can be downloaded here or browsed here.
But there are many games that didn’t make it into the rulebooks for this version, mainly to avoid having a book that was too large, while also making sure that the book had sufficient variation and balance in terms of different styles of games suited for different styles of play.
So here are a few of the games that are good enough that they could have been in the rulebook, for which we just didn’t find room. Continue reading “Top 5 games not included in the rulebooks”
The number of games you can play using the Green Box is continuously growing, and it might be difficult to know where to start. This post includes all the games included in the official rulebook that comes with the Second to None Edition (2017) of the Green Box of Games. Continue reading “16 games from the rulebook”
This page contains a list of all games published on this site. We’ve attempted a very simple categorisation of the games, to help you find the games you will enjoy the most. Most games fall into the following categories, with a few self-explanatory exceptions.
All games are also categorised on the dimension of luck vs strategy. “Balanced” means the game includes both luck and strategy in fair amounts. The complexity rating can be interpreted as how long it takes to explain the rules. Continue reading “Updated list of games”
During the Kickstarter Campaign no less than 18 new games have been created or suggested for the Green Box of Games by players, backers and fans from different parts of the world. Most of them are published in the forums on BoardGameGeek, where they are also discussed and developed further.
UPDATE: New rulebook designed for download, containing 12 games designed by the community: Download here (PDF 7 mb) Continue reading “Kickstarter Community games roundup”
The components for the upcoming new edition of the Green Box of Games have gone through a full redesign. In addition to looking a lot better, they have also got a couple of new features. Continue reading “New design for the “Second to None Edition””
