Annual General Meeting 2017
The Melbourne Meeples Inc General Annual Meeting is being held this Sunday 30th of July before the regular NSEG meeting at midday at the Stolberg Beer Cafe, Preston. If you…
Northern Suburbs Eurogamers (NSEG) Dates for 2017
Here are the dates for the Northern Suburbs Eurogamers (NSEG) for 2017. We always love new players, whether new to us or new to the hobby. So come visit us…
OzBunnyCon tickets on sale now
Tickets to Melbourne Meeples Inc.'s OzBunnyCon 2017 are on sale now. Held from April 14-17 in Mt Waverley, OzBunnyCon is a relaxed gaming experience for the whole family. And if…
Annual General Meeting 2016
Another year gone... so it's time again for the Annual General Meeting of Melbourne Meeples Inc. The AGM will be held at the Stolberg Beer Cafe (cnr Bell St and Plenty…
Extraordinary Awards
Melbourne Meeples is a participating in the Extraordinary Awards and that means that all it’s members are eligible to nominate games that will form part of the Melbourne Meeples nomination for the awards.
The awards come in two flavours, ‘most popular’ for games that were released at any time and ‘Best new’ for games released in 2015.
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Annual General Meeting 2015
It hardly feels like a year has gone by and yet it has. So its time for the Annual General Meeting of Melbourne Meeples. The AGM will be held at…
Melbourne Meeples Library: Pandemic: The Cure
We’ve added a new game to our ever expanding library! The latest game to be added is Pandemic: The Cure.
Pandemic The Cure takes the concept of Pandemic (grabbing a bunch of your friends and trying to save the world from four diseases) and speeds it up and makes it slightly more random by using dice instead of cubes.
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Spiel des Jahres awards
We’re a little late to the party, but the announcements for the Spiel des Jahres came out a while ago and there’s some great Australian news wrapped up in it.
For those that don’t know, the Spiel des Jahres (which translates to Game of the Year, but we’ll call SdJ from here on in) is an award given to the best game of the last year that was released in Germany as decided by the German gaming press. Boardgame reviews appear in lots of print mediums in Germany somewhat like movie reviews appear here in the press.
There’s actually three awards, the SdJ (which tends to focus on family games), the Kennerspiel des Jahres (the game for those in the know… or the more complicated game) and the Kinderspiel des Jahres (the game of the year for kids). The winner for the Kinderspiel has been announced already, but the Kennerspiel and SdJ get announced on July 6.
Because of the ‘released in Germany’ in the last year, you get odd nominations and recommendations for games that have been out elsewhere in the world, such as this year, Machi Koro which was originally published in 2012 in Japan, but has taken a while to get translated to German.
So the two games which we’re excited about in our jingoistic way are
- Elysium by ex-pat Matthew Dunstan (now living in the UK, also designed Relic Runners) and UK designer Brett J. Gilbert. Elysium is nominated for the Kennerspiel.
- Cacao by NSW’s Philip Walker-Harding (who also designed Sushi Go, Pack of Heroes, Archeology and more). Cacao is a SdJ recommendation.
Click on the link below to take a look at the other nominees and recommendations!
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The new site
Welcome to meeples.org.au, Melbourne Meeples new home! For some history, we setup nseg.org.au before Melbourne Meeples was formed... or even conceived! It was getting to be a bit confusing having NSEG,…
