Mysterious Musings from The Voynich Times...

  Lessons From the Kickstarter:  Airmail Adventures By Brent Price (and interviewing Chris Leigh) Chris Leigh is an avid gamer and role-player, creator of a set of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition condition chips and the Tome of Spell Holding; and a gamer who hoped to take his love of games to launch his own mail-based at home mystery game.  Chris launched a Kickstarter called “Airmail Adventures: The Lost Journal of Flintlock Flynn.”  Designed as an at-home mystery puzzle experience, it was kid-focused, planned as 6 episodes, and used paper components, maps, a compass, a journal, letters., and more to take you on an adventure stemming from a family secret!   After sending several prototypes out for reviewers, the game went up on Kickstarter on May 2nd of 2019, and was cancelled on May 30th, having only achieved 31% of the required funding.  Always curious as to the experiences of creators and how we can learn from them all, I decided to interview Chris about his experience, and he w

  Review:  The Vandermist Dossier (spoiler free) You are the one who can help solve the mysterious disappearance of Abigail Vandermist! You receive a desperate letter from her sister, Helena, in the hopes that you are the one who will help her solve this personal disappearance...a case that has yet to be solved...a case that will take your special set of skills to crack... The Vandermist Dossier is the first part of a planned trilogy of Mystery Puzzle Games by Diorama Games (formerly known as Puzzlepost).  I received an early release review copy.  The final version is expected to be functionally the same, but with some upgraded artifacts. Bottom line The best praise I can give this game is that I will be first in line for the two upcoming sequel games! From the story, to the puzzles, to the quality of the components, this is the exact type of game that I love! The Vandermist Dossier The game comes in an actual file-box filled with documents and items from the case, including an old fo