Events
▼ Past SLUG Events
![SaltCon 2015: Castles of Mad King Ludwig](/uploads/exclusives/9618-pic1961827-crop-396x288.jpg)
SaltCon 2015: Castles of Mad King Ludwig
In this competitive eurogame, you compete to build a castle that will win you the most victory points at the end of the game. Trouble is, you have to satisfy a whole host of conditions for each room in your castle and compete for choice room types and sizes. … read more
![SaltCon 2015: Flash Point: Fire Rescue](/uploads/exclusives/9617-flashpoint-crop-396x288.jpg)
SaltCon 2015: Flash Point: Fire Rescue
Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a delightfully elegant cooperative board gaming experience. The players take on the role of a specialist in a team of firefighters who must save as many people as possible from being burned to death in a house fire. … read more
![SaltCon 2015: EAE Showcase](/uploads/exclusives/9615-1555512_745507092195475_1873713598142333373_n-crop-396x288.jpg)
SaltCon 2015: EAE Showcase
At the far end of the exhibit hall, a couple of student teams from the University of Utah’s EAE program had set up game demos. … read more
![SaltCon 2015: Cthulhu Wars](/uploads/exclusives/9614-dvm-crop-396x288.jpg)
SaltCon 2015: Cthulhu Wars
As a game, Cthulhu Wars follows the Risk template of conquering the world bit by bit, except instead of raising armies to fight nobly on the field of battle, you’re summoning Elder Gods and their wretched spawn to corrupt and conquer the Earth. … read more
![SaltCon 2015: Villages](/uploads/exclusives/9613-671969c6c23773757129a444727ae24f0344a2f1_converted-crop-396x288.jpg)
SaltCon 2015: Villages
I have a personal weakness for board games with pixellated video game art, and Villages capitalized on that weakness immediately. … read more
![SaltCon 2015: Eight-Minute Empire](/uploads/exclusives/9612-pic1443212-_1_converted-crop-396x288.jpg)
SaltCon 2015: Eight-Minute Empire
This wonderful board game both designed and illustrated by Ryan Laukat is a quick strategy game that is as challenging as it is beautiful. … read more
![SaltCon 2015: Artemis](/uploads/exclusives/9611-maxresdefault-crop-396x288.jpg)
SaltCon 2015: Artemis
Artemis was unlike any game I’ve ever played before. It wasn’t a tabletop game, but it definitely catered to that small niche in the gaming community. … read more
![Sundance Film Review: Don Verdean](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/9158-Don-Verdean-1.jpg)
Sundance Film Review: Don Verdean
Don Verdean is a biblical scholar and archaeologist who has built his career on excavating and preserving artifacts from the good book—the film’s opening scene features an antiquated documentary in which Verdean tracks down the shears that Delilah used to cut Samson’s hair. … read more
![Billie of All Trades: Billie Piper](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/9103-img26541.jpg)
Billie of All Trades: Billie Piper
Billie Piper looked like she stepped out of the pages of Tiger Beat circa 1993. With a blue flannel shirt, overalls, fingerless gloves, spats and her hair in a messy top knot bun, she is the epitome of not-giving-a-damn and I love it. … read more
![Slamdance Film Review: Wendell and the Lemon](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/9102-Wendell-and-the-Lemon_Slamdance_2015.jpg)
Slamdance Film Review: Wendell and the Lemon
Wendell (Todd D’Amour) picks up the lemon on the street, shortly after a breakup, and he quickly incorporates the lemon into his daily routine. He’s cast as a sort of neurotic, overly anxious character, also adopting an eye patch to cover a twitching eye—though he can’t remember which eye has the problem.
… read more