Our recent Summit convention in San Diego featured a number of excellent seminars for attendees, featuring game designers, podcasts, writers, and more discussing numerous areas of importance to historical games. One of those panels, on narrative in solitaire games, was Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce Amabel Holland’s video essay “Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context” as the recipient of the 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched last year in memory of our Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the winner of the fourth annual Summit Award. The Summit Award aims to recognize a historical board game published in the preceding year that most broadened the hobby through Read More …
This post is from Alex Knight. Alex is the designer of Land and Freedom: The Spanish Revolution and Civil War, which received the 2024 incarnation of SDHist’s Summit Award (for games published in 2023). That award recognizes the historical board Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2025 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched last year in memory of our colleague and friend, Robert “Bobby Factor” Nunes (seen above during a Read More …
This post is from Trevor Bender. Trevor is the designer of four published games or game expansions, including the Labyrinth: The Awakening and Labyrinth: The Forever War expansions for GMT Games’ Labyrinth: The Global War on Terror. He is also Read More …
Thanks to everyone who attended our SDHistCon Winter Quarters 2025 convention on Feb. 8! More than 150 people came for some or all of a full day of gaming events, covering game demos, topical panels, company updates, and more. Here Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce Liz Davidson’s Beyond Solitaire podcast interview series as the recipient of the 2024 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched this year in memory of our colleague and friend, Read More …
The San Diego Historical Games Convention (SDHist) is proud to announce the finalists for the 2024 Bobby Nunes Memorial Award. This award, launched this year in memory of our colleague and friend, Robert “Bobby Factor” Nunes (seen above during a Read More …
This post is from Akar Bharadvaj. Akar is the director of the Zenobia Award. He was previously selected as the first-place winner of the award in 2021 for his game Tyranny of Blood, on changes to India’s social structure under Read More …