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Vincent Dutrait, brings his unforgettable hand painted artwork to the Nature Jurassic Module, creating illustrations that are truly larger than life.

Lauren Helton, a biologist and scientific illustrator, brings the Nature Flight module to life by depicting birds in their natural habitat.

In Nature Jurassic, size is power, and the bigger your species, the more untouchable you'll feel. 

Nature takes place over hundreds of millions of years as species adapt to a continually changing environment. It isn’t easy to relate to such a vast expanse of time..

Nature combines lessons from my days as a pro-Magic player and everything I’ve learned from 12 years as lead designer of the award-winning Evolution series. 

Nature is Calling  In the wilds of Nepal, animals flock to the nearest watering hole...    While these lands offer abundance for the species that visit, dangers lurk in the shadows… From the publishers of the award-winning Evolution series comes a brand new expandable game system, Nature, where players create and adapt...

5 Great Co-op Board Games for Puzzle Fans To celebrate the launch of Paint the Roses, our new cooperative puzzle board game set in the world of Alice in Wonderland, we’ve put together a list of 5 great co-op puzzle games for you to try at your next game night....

I’m Ben Goldman, designer of Paint the Roses. I’ve been developing board games at NorthStar for 6 years, working on Climate, Most Wanted, and Oceans but this was the first time I’d had nearly complete creative control over the design and I learned a lot through the process. After years...

Our latest title, Paint the Roses, is a brand new cooperative puzzle board game headed to Kickstarter on Oct 12th. Set in the world of Alice in Wonderland the game features brand new art and illustrations reimagining its characters.   Today I’m joined by Jacqui Davis the illustrator of Paint the Roses. Jacqui is...

Oceans is a journey into the unknown, where you discover powerful traits that hardly seem possible in the realm of biology, and yet they turn out to be real. But coming next summer, you will be able to discover things beyond the realm of science... 

  This is the sixth post in a series about our upcoming game Paint the Roses, written by the game’s designer, Ben Goldman. I went to art school for graphic design, where I spent as much time designing board games as graphics. Games were how I slacked off. It turned out...

    This is the fifth post in a series about our upcoming game Paint the Roses, written by the game’s designer, Ben Goldman. Nothing keeps people from playing games more than having to learn rules. Imagine how many fewer movies we’d watch if we had to read an instruction manual...

This is the fourth post in a series about our upcoming Alice-in-Wonderland-themed game Paint the Roses. The Dictator's Handbook, by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, has a simple proposition: a ruler’s position determines his behavior more than you’d think. What looks like bad behavior from the outside is...

This is the third post in a series about our upcoming Alice-in-Wonderland-themed game Paint the Roses.As we design components for Paint the Roses, we hope readers can help us get one key component right: a sculpted Queen of Hearts who spends the game trying to behead you. We want to...

  This is the second post in a series about our upcoming game Paint the Roses, written by the game’s designer, Ben Goldman. Ask any gamer what the biggest problem with cooperative games is, and they’ll tell you it’s quarterbacking.  Quarterbacking is when one player who knows the game well...

Prototype box art for Paint the Roses This is the first post in a series about our upcoming game Paint the Roses, written by the game’s designer, Ben Goldman. Why has Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland endured? It was published in 1865, the year the American Civil War ended. But we’re...

The most massive project North Star Games has ever tackled is starting to surface. After going dark for nearly a year, the next stand-alone game in the Evolution series is finally coming up for air. 

Have an idea for a city we didn't include?  Here are some tips on how to mix Action Cards.  If you've come up with a unique combination of Action Cards that you enjoy playing with, share it with others by leaving a comment!

There was a time, let’s call it “the early 2000s”, when there was a sharp distinction between party games and strategy games. That's no longer true. A new kind of game has evolved that spans the gap.

Sometimes two old ideas can combine to make a brand new one. There’s a strange alchemical magic in it. A good example is King of Tokyo, which combines Yahtzee with Kaiju. Now we have a game like that. It's called Most Wanted, which combines Poker with Old West outlaw shenanigans.