What's In The Window | February 2024

Written by Tessa

Black History Month is here! There are so many games that are only on our shelves and game night tables because of Black game makers. We want to highlight them and their accomplishments here and in our February window display of games made by Black game makers or featuring Black characters. Let’s get into some of our favorite games!

Phase 10 is a very simple rummy-style card game designed by Ken Johnson. In 1979, he founded his own game design company, where he started creating games. Soon after, he saw the success of UNO and strived to make a similarly simple and successful game with Phase 10. In this game, you progress through ten phases, and the person who completes all of the phases first wins. Each phase has a specific objective that allows the player to move onto the next phase upon completion. Thanks for this snappy card game, Ken! We're proud to carry Phase 10 on our webstore.

Blood Rage is a fantastic Viking-themed game about the end of the world designed by Eric M. Lang. Lang has worked on many well known games such as Rising Sun, A Song of Ice and Fire and Bloodbourne: The Card Game. In Blood Rage, you control your viking clan, leading them to glory and Valhalla in the wake of Ragnarok. You can complete quests, pillage villages and battle other viking clans to ensure your seat at Odin's side. Start playing Blood Rage with the core box!

Here’s one for our RPG players: Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel is an RPG created completely by BIPOC (Black and indigenous people of color) game makers and writers. Journeys through the Radiant Citadel is a standalone adventure for characters levels 1-14, and it is one RPG in a thirteen-part anthology about the Ethereal Plane. Adventurers travel to the Radiant Citadel to experience the magical city and all of the danger and adventure that comes along with it. Dive right in with the Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel rulebook today!

We love highlighting different communities and everything that they have done to improve board games as a whole. We usually don’t see the faces behind our favorite games, so we love appreciating the people who created them. Thank you to all of the Black game makers who have improved the diversity and quality of games or who have just made fun games for every game night!