Hey, game friends. I wanted to write a quick post keeping you up-to-date on some things going on with the website.

This week, I decided to do a bit of fiddling with the tags that appear on game pages. You can now filter for games that are Solitaire (or have solitaire versions included in the game), Cooperative (or primarily cooperative), and games for Large Groups (playable with seven or more players, though not strictly limited to that many). I’d like to add more tags in the future. Grouped by publisher or genre? Bold, but possible. We’ll see.

You might notice that a couple weeks ago, there was no update posted to the site. But I was also working on site maintenance then! I uploaded a few new banners for the website headers. Which, you might notice, no longer contain an update schedule. That’s a deliberate decision; after over two years(!) of weekly posting, I think I need to pull back on the reins a bit. I’m certainly not stopping updating, but I need to give myself a little more freedom with when I post. Part of this decision is a financial thing (games cost money!), and part of it is a time thing (not only would it be nice to have a little more free time in my schedule, but I’d also like to work on some projects that might take more than one week to complete).

So what lies ahead? I’ve got a few larger board games (such as Scythe, Agricola, and others) that are a little heavier on rules, and take more time for me to learn, as well as turn around to teach people and write rules summaries for; it’d be nice to make posts on those games in the future. I’d like to work on producing more Games in One Minute videos and not officially titled Podcasts, but I’m also tempted to look into doing some board game streaming on Twitch, technology pending. I’m not entirely sure how to make these things happen, but I’d love to take steps toward getting there.

As always, you can follow updates to the site by following our Twitter, @FirstGameRule. Wait, how have I never mentioned this on the site yet? Yes, this account’s been running since I started the website, though I was rough at consistently posting updates toward the beginning. No, I’m pretty sure I never mentioned it on here before now. No, I probably won’t remember to add links to it anywhere on the site for a while, because I’m dumb at social media stuff.

Anyway, that’s the news for this week. For those going to Origins this weekend in Columbus, stay safe and have fun!