*It's been a rough year.
*For everyone, worldwide. And it still is.
During this strange time we welcomed more and more players from all around the globe, more developers, more publishers and, overall, more games.
We would like to send our warmest thanks to all of our Premium users: you're not only helping support the infrastructure, but also publishers and game designers from anywhere in the world.
Also, we received many emails telling us about how Board Game Arena helped many people stay sane while in lock-down. To play with friends, family, relatives...
*We keep thinking about all of these messages. And we're thankful to all of the people helping us in here.
It's also a curious time, since having close to **5M player accounts **on BGA isn't something easy to manage. But our small team is on it, 24h a day, 7 days a week, to keep things as enjoyable as we can.
We're improving, tinkering, ding-a-ling every part of the website.
It's not perfect, but we try to improve it: next year could bring some new things to BGA, and a lot of improvements are in progress.
We expect you to be able to witness and enjoy all of this next year.
**But for now, we're close to end this one, since tomorrow we'll be in December.
**
As the year was hard, we wanted to thank you for playing on BGA and supporting us.
We have more publishers joining BGA every day, as well as developers.
And we just can't keep the usual Wednesday Release schedule.
Not that we're missing games, but actually the opposite: we have a lot, and we need to release more of them!
That's why we came up with a simple idea: Like an advent calendar, let's make this one an
"OPUS MAGNUM CALENDAR".
Opus Magnum is Latin for Masterpiece. Could also be used as "Work well done".
We pushed our team to the limit, with the help of our developers, to bring you a special FULL month of NEW games.
How ?
Starting from today, you might have seen a new block below the headline blocks on our home page:
A December 2020 Calendar.
Each days of December, you'll be able to click the daily gift that will show you our release of the day.
Yes.
ONE New Game Release EACH DAY. For 31 Days.
That's 31 Games for December.
From classics to novelties, indies to famous titles, you'll have a new game to discover each time the moon rises (on Paris time).
You'll be able to click on the calendar to see the new games, and you'll also be able to find the releases listed in this post.
But we added a small feature on the calendar: if you come each day to click on the daily gift, you'll get a Trophy as a reward depending on how many days you were able to do so in a row.
That's a way for us to know what has been seen, what has been clicked, and a way to know if that kind of idea can be used on front page to offer more things, later.
*So, for now, here are the games released (the list will be updated daily):
1st December release:
Thurn & Taxis, 2006 Spiel des Jahres, designed by
Andreas Seyfarth & Karen Seyfarth and developed for BGA by Volker78 & tutchek
2nd December release:
Welcome to AND Welcome to VEGAS, designed by
Alexis Allard & Benoît Tupin and developed for BGA by Tisaac & JustinFernal
3rd December release:
99, from
public domain and developed for BGA by QuasarDuke
4th December release:
Flaming Pyramids, designed by
Norbert Abel and developed for BGA by DrNob
5th December release:
Small Islands, designed by
Alexis Allard and developed for BGA by Galeelox
6th December release:
Map Maker, designed by
Louis Lafair, Joshua Lafair, Becca Lafair and developed for BGA by gkz
7th December release:
Solo Whist, from
Public Domain and developed for BGA by Jimblefredberry
8th December release:
Kami, adapted from
Goïta Shogi and developed for BGA by LeSteffen
9th December release:
Luxor, from
Rüdiger Dorn and developed for BGA by Cpasbanal
10th December release:
Hungarian Tarokk, from
Public Domain and developed for BGA by LaszloK
11th December release:
Cacao, from
Phil Walker-Harding and developed for BGA by ExtraPaul
12th December release:
Piraten Kapern, from
Haim Shafir and developed for BGA by VinceS
13th December release:
Off the Rails, from
Andrew Platt, Stuart Platt and developed for BGA by paramesis
14th December release:
Connect 6, from
Professor I-Chen Wu and developed for BGA by VinceS
15th December release:
Spades, from
Public Domain and developed for BGA by VinceS
16th December release:
Saint Petersbug, from
Bernd Brunnhofer and developed for BGA by Marcuda
17th December release:
Cribbage, from
Sir John Suckling and developed for BGA by MikeIsHere
18th December release:
Yokai, from
Julien Griffon and developed for BGA by Galeelox
19th December release:
Quantik, from
Nouri Khalifa and developed for BGA by lyconide
20th December release:
Nanga Parbat, from
Steve Finn and developed for BGA by jonsmiley
21th December release:
Oh-Seven, from
Alex Weldon and developed for BGA by Xom
22th December release:
Bandido, from
Martin Nedergaard Andersen and developed for BGA by Harkle & ophelopède
23th December release:
Concept, from
Gaëtan Beaujannot & Alain Rivollet and developed for BGA by Tisaac
24th December release:
Haiclue, from
Will Leaf and developed for BGA by Volker78
25th December release:
Via Magica, from
Paolo Mori and developed for BGA by CuriousTerran
26th December release:
Martian Dice, from
Scott Almes and developed for BGA by KuWizard
27th December release:
Dungeon Roll, from
Chris Darden and developed for BGA by MGoulet
28th December release:
Con Sonar!, from
Christian Boutin and developed for BGA by Feunisher
29th December release:
Big Time Soccer, from
Andrew S. Fischer and developed for BGA by DrKarotte
30th December release:
Forbidden Island, from
Matt Leacock and developed for BGA by jeffdi
31th December release:
Klaverjassen, a popular traditional four player trick-tacking card game in the Netherlands,
developed for BGA by wolmot.
Please don't forget that you can report any issues or bugs through our BUG REPORT form, at the bottom of the website. You'll get in touch directly with the developers and that way, they can fix issues quickly. But don't forget to read the games rules before 😉
We're really waiting on your feedback about this special event, that is a way to thank all of our members who are making BGA the world's #1 place to play boardgames.
If you want to help furthermore publishers and game designers, don't forget that you can also buy the real games from many shops around the world, in your area. If you enjoy them, that's also a good way to reward them.
*We would like to thanks all our partners for their efforts during this year.
The best is yet to come.
And next year, we're expecting to continue offering you the best we can.
Take care and... play fair!*
Ian, Greg, Emmanuel and Jurica.
BGA Team.
Desembre Opus Magnum: Finalitzem aquest any estupendament, junts.
Ha estat un any dur.
Per a tothom, a tot el món.
I encara ho és.
Durant aquest temps tan estrany hem donat la benvinguda a més i més jugadors/es de tot el món, més desenvolupadors/es, més editors/es i, en general, més jocs.
Ens agradaria enviar els nostres més grans agraïments a tots els usuaris Prèmium: no només ajudeu a donar suport a la infraestructura, sinó també a editors i autors de jocs de qualsevol part del món.
A més, hem rebut molts correus electrònics que ens informaven sobre com Board Game Arena ha ajudat moltes persones a mantenir el seny mentre estaven confinades.
Per jugar amb amics, familiars, parents...
Seguim pensant en tots aquests missatges.
I agraïm a totes les persones que ens ajuden aquí
També és un moment curiós, ja que tenir prop de 5 milions de comptes de jugador a BGA això no és fàcil de gestionar.
Però el nostre petit equip hi participa les 24 hores del dia, els 7 dies de la setmana, perquè les coses siguin el més agradable possible.
Estem millorant, canviant, manipulant totes les parts del lloc web.
No és perfecte, però intentem millorar-lo: l'any vinent podríem aportar algunes novetats a BGA i hi ha moltes millores en curs.
Esperem que ho pugueu presenciar i gaudir-ne el proper any.
Però, per ara, estem a punt d’acabar-ho, ja que demà serem al desembre.
Com que l’any ha estat dur, volíem donar-vos les gràcies per jugar a BGA i donar-nos suport.
Cada dia tenim més editors que s’uneixen a BGA, així com desenvolupadors.
I simplement no podem mantenir l'habitual planificació de la versió dels dimecres.
No és que ens faltin jocs, sinó tot el contrari: en tenim molts i n’hem de llançar més!
Per això, se’ns va ocórrer una idea simple: com un calendari d’advent, fem d’aquest un
"CALENDARI OPUS MAGNUM".
Opus Magnum és una Obra Mestra, en llatí.
També es podria utilitzar com a "Treball ben fet".
Hem empès l'equip al límit, amb l'ajuda dels nostres desenvolupadors, per oferir-vos un mes COMPLET especial de NOUS jocs.
Com?
A partir d’avui és possible que hagueu vist un bloc nou a sota dels blocs de titulars de la nostra pàgina inicial:
Un calendari de desembre de 2020.
Cada dia de desembre, podreu fer clic al regal diari que us mostrarà el nostre llançament del dia.
Sí.
UN NOU JOC llançat CADA DIA. Durant 31 dies.
Això són 31 jocs durant desembre.
Des de clàssics fins a novetats, indies i títols famosos, tindreu un nou joc per descobrir cada vegada que surt la lluna (a l’hora de París).
Podreu fer clic al calendari per veure els jocs nous i també podreu trobar les versions que apareixen en aquesta publicació.
Però hem afegit una petita característica al calendari: si cada dia veniu a fer clic al regal diari, obtindreu un Trofeu com a recompensa en funció de quants dies hàgiu pogut fer-ho seguit.
Aquesta és una manera de saber què s'ha vist, on s'ha fet clic i una manera de saber si aquest tipus d’idea es pot utilitzar a la portada per oferir més coses, més endavant.
Així, de moment, aquí teniu els jocs llançats (la llista s’actualitzarà diàriament):
Llançament de l'1 de desembre:
Thurn & Taxis, 2006 Spiel des Jahres, fet per
Andreas Seyfarth i Karen Seyfarth i desenvolupat per a BGA per Volker78 & tutchek
Llançament del 2 de desembre:
Welcome to I Welcome to VEGAS, fet per
Alexis Allard i Benoît Tupin i desenvolupat per a BGA per Tisaac i JustinFernal
Llançament del 3 de desembre:
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Llançament del 28 de desembre:
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Llançament del 29 de desembre:
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Llançament del 30 de desembre:
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Llançament del 31 de desembre:
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No oblideu que podeu informar de qualsevol problema o error a través del nostre formulari d’INFORMAR D'ERRORS, a la part inferior del lloc web.
Se us posarà en contacte directament amb els desenvolupadors i d’aquesta manera podran solucionar els problemes ràpidament.
Però no oblideu llegir les regles dels jocs abans
Realment esperem els vostres comentaris sobre aquest esdeveniment especial, que és una manera d’agrair a tots els nostres membres que fan de BGA el lloc número 1 del món per jugar a jocs de taula.
Si voleu ajudar a editors i dissenyadors de jocs, no oblideu que també podeu comprar els jocs reals a moltes botigues de tot el món de la vostra zona.
Si els disfruteu, també és una bona manera de recompensar-los.
Volem agrair a tots els nostres socis els seus esforços durant aquest any.
El millor està per arribar.
I l’any vinent esperem continuar oferint-vos el millor que podem.
Tingueu cura i...
joc net!
Ian, Greg, Emmanuel i Jurica.
Equip BGA.
