I was thrilled to hear from John Baichtal last week. He let me know that he was working on a review of ULBG for the geekdad blog. I answered a few questions and told him how glad I was that someone was still interested in posting a review about the book.
I’m happy to report that the review has been posted and I think he had some really kind words to say about the book.
Check out this cool pic of the new cover art that he posted:
Allan
As some of you may know, one of my other hobbies (besides LEGO building, cycling, watching movies, listening to music, reading etc. etc.) is designing games. Not computer games, but rather I prefer to design traditional board, tile and card games. In fact, ULBG features one of my games as an example of how you can use LEGO as a medium to create a game that is fully playable. I’ll write more about that game in another post.
In the meantime I wanted to share with you a link to a site called Game-it-Yourself!. It consists (among other gaming-related info) of lists of games that are free to download and print out. I was searching through the lists this morning and was pleasantly surprised to come across one of my own games there. 
That games is Triangulate and was created for a contest way back in 2001. Yikes! Remember when that was still at the beginning of the “new millenium"? LOL
I realize, in looking at the About.com page, that the formatting is messed up for the board layouts. I will dig around and see if I can find the original graphics that were supposed to go along with those rules. If I can find them, I’ll post them here.
Allan
I thought this was an interesting movie tie-in:
Here’s a link to the page for the LEGO product.
And here’s a link to the movie itself, starring Dustin Hoffman.
I don’t recall the LEGO set getting much press… at least I don’t remember seeing it show up in any of my Google news alerts over the last few weeks and months.
But the movie looks fun. The set looks very interesting. So we’ll see what happens.
Allan
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