News
08/11/23 (535 unique games on Board Game Geek) 622 total games, 74 Puzzles, 26+RPGs (We’ve grouped by system) The website is behind please use Herefordbgamers | User Collection | BoardGameGeek
Year of released added to all games.
14/09/23
Lots more games being added. Working on improving tags. Accessibility and Educational focus tags to allow better search of the library.
30/11/22 50 games added, More puzzles, and RPGs still to add.
We have around 441 games not counting expansions, over 50 jigsaws, RPGs and more. As far as I know the only free community lending library!
19/09/22 3 games added. New tags
New tags: EventGames, ShortLoans, WelcomeGames.
11/07/22 13 more games added
10/07/22 New donations from Bedsit Games a second copy of Paupers ladder. added Around 50 items leaving a dozen to so to go!
27/06/22 Tags removed from Puzzles to make games easier to find. new tag 1000 piece for jigsaws (other piece counts to be added) Headings made clearer and order changed on menu. We are working on improving the search options. 51 games and 1 jigsaw to be added (atleast)
30/04/22 3 puzzles added. Designer Tags added to thank our sponsors (Tags will be added when a sponsor designers and donated 3 or more games otherwise it will be too noisy)
24/04/22 40 Games and 3 Puzzles added Mix of publisher donations and individual 🙂 360 games 52 jigsaws. (not yet on the website)
5/2/22 2 New games added, Publisher donations, Rockpool and Six Gun showdown. One puzzle to add.
06/01/22 39 board game and 15 puzzles added to the website. Nearly fully up to date! 1 new game donated this week as well. Total now stands at 314 games, 49 puzzles, 4 RPGs and 8 lots of tables.
24/12/21 Record week,. 11 loans in week, 6th loan of a table, and 76 items out at once! Still another 48 items to add to the website.
17/12/21 48 Items added to main register. Slowly being added to the website. New Category / Tag Vintage
28/09/21 16 games, 2 equipment and 3 giant games added. Added a few new categories (Dinosaurs, Roll and Write) and tags (Notagame, not english language) Still need to add Vintage games and Jigsaws!
23/08/21 13 games 2 puzzles added. (still have giant games, molkky and furniture to add)
19/08/21 Minor updates, new booking button, widgets rearranged. Some text improvements based on feedback
05/08/21 30 games and 5 puzzles added (Back log almost caught up)
02/05/21 9 new games added
18/04/21 1 new game and 1 puzzle
10/04/21 8 new games added (Sussed Card games)
31/03/21 2 new games added Also Tabletop magazines back issues and mental health well being books.
30/03/21 1 puzzle and 1 new game added.
15/03/21 1 new puzzle added!
02/03/21 Photos and basic details added to all outstanding images, Author changed to Puzzle/ Board Game / RPG to make it easier to sort too. Library stands at 210 items (Duplicates aren’t shown on here properly)
01/03/21 7 games and 3 puzzles added (No pictures or data yet)
28/02/21 Lots of games and RPGs added (No pictures or data yet)
23/02/21 6 puzzles added to the website. (No pictures or data yet) Library stands at 200 items (Duplicates aren’t shown on here properly)
To do:
Cross reference and stock check
Review all tags / Categories
Add more tags i.e. Lunchbreak
Update information page
Improve recommendation engine
Update links
Add more text information to each page
17/02/21 1 new games added (unlock) Missed previous, revamped the age categories from child to 6 / 8 / 13.
15/02/21 3 new games 1 puzzle added! Accessibility category added, 3 categories Low / No Text, Lots of text and Colour Blind issues. Not all games have been updated it will take a while to assess 160 game items.
Related post widget redone. Related posts should be better but still need work!
12/02/21 Lunchbreak tag added 33 games perfect 2 player under an hour games!
11/02/2021 15 Games added to the website
08/02/2021 15 games added. 11 games from Coiled Spring and 4 personal added to Board Game geek. Not yet on here
18/01/2021 10 games added. Expansion Category Added
23/12/2020 Red 7 and two puzzles added. Puzzle Link added to top menu.
25/11/2020 5 more games added, Entries basically created but need fleshing out.
05/11/2020 Entries for the new items mostly fleshed out and pictures added. They aren’t complete but they will do for now.
04/11/2020 5 games and 7 puzzles added to board game geek and partially added here.
23/10/2020 Simple A to Z list of in stock items added to the website. Five new games added to the library on BGG but not yet on this site
21/09/2020 Added 6 puzzles to the lending library.
03/09/2020 Created a gallery to show what people are borrowing http://herefordshireboardgamers.co.uk/library/about/what-are-people-borrowing/
24/08/2020 Updated Pinned post, and add in on loan category. So you can filter both ways on categories and tags.
17/08/2020 Missing data added. Pinned post and Video added. Please let us know if information isn’t clear. There are a number of actions still open and we need feedback to make sure this website is easy to use.
15/08/2020 Paupers Ladder (publishers donation) Iceflow and Shear panic (Personal donation) added but information is needed to be added.
10/08/2020 117 games in the library. Xanadu (Welsh water Grant) No thanks and Yahtzee (Personal Donations), we now have a complete A to Z of modern board games 🙂
A number of open issues / improvements still exist
To do list.
1) Refine Rules / Process
2) Proof read all text
3) Expand all game pages to include more information
4) Fine tune / fix related games
5) Make the home page dynamic to show random games rather than reverse chronological order. (Almost Z to A)
6) Where embedded links don’t work they need to be converted to HTML.
7) All categories are too be reviewed for completeness and accuracy – MOSTLY COMPLETE
8) Accessibility review. Including add alt text to all images.
9) Instruction guide on how to book – MOSTLY COMPLETE
07/08/2020 Buck of Doom (Personal Donation) added
06/08/2020 Barenpark (Personal Donations), My First Carcasonne (WW grant) and Evolution the beginning (Personal Donations) added to the library
27/07/2020 Categories reviewed and aligned better. Booking form updated with more examples and definitions.
27/07/2020 Booking form instructions including screenshots added. Let me know if the instructions are clear enough.
27/07/2020 Over 14 hours of work and all 104 posts representing 110 games are fundamentally complete with picture, link to publisher, and publishers blurb. All games in the library are categorised buy various categories which you can click on to filter. The search has been modified so you can type in (exact spelling) more than one category to search for example ‘3 player fantasy’ would bring up Bloodrage and other 3 player fantasy games.
The website is definitely not complete and the processes are still very much draft. So effectively in open Beta but we want your feedback..
If you see any gaps let us know i.e. games with no pictures, or categories or anything like that.
To do list.
1) Refine Rules / Process
2) Proof read all text
3) Expand all game pages to include more information
4) Fine tune / fix related games
5) Make the home page dynamic to show random games rather than reverse chronological order. (Almost Z to A)
6) Where embedded links don’t work they need to be converted to HTML.
7) All categories are too be reviewed for completeness and accuracy
8) Accessibility review. Including add alt text to all images.
9) Instruction guide on how to book
More stuff later. but the above will bring us to a functional point.
24/07/2020 New Website to host the games library to make the games library easier to find. This is very much work in progress. Watch this space.