Hollandspiele
The official channel of Hollandspiele, a niche board games publisher. This also hosts the video essay work of Hollandspiele co-founder Amabel Holland, usually concentrating on the history and future of board games, but also sometimes about old movies.
Tight Focus # 1: Alienation in THE BETA TEST (2021)
Boxes: Selling, Framing, Meaning
10th Annual Hollandays Sale: Nov 14 - 23, 2025
Sixteen Years of WHITE BUTTERFLY: the joy of moving brick walls
Belinda's Big Bonus - a Belinda Blinked board game (overview)
SKITTLE (Aurora): the board game series that destroyed its publisher
Player Counts: Scaling in Board Games
How Editing & Reshoots Saved "A Thousand Clowns" (1965)
A Battle, Furious, Bloody, Repulsive, Crimson, Gory, Boisterous, Manly, Rough, Fierce, etc
Uncredited: Searching for Lost Board Game Designers
A Look at Sykes-Picot
Victims, Survivors, and Those In-Between
Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning
Buy My Book (& Channel Update)
Shame, Desire, Betrayal: Politics & Sexuality in Johnny Guitar
Oblique
Vonnegut’s Board Game: Preservation, Annotation, Context
Sympathy & Alienation: two performances by Anton Walbrook
2024 Hollandays Sale Overview
The Horror of Being a Story
Rules As Play: The Human Art of Writing, Learning, and Breaking Rules
Hollandspiele August 2024 Update
Tate (1960): The Show About the One-Armed Gunfighter
Games as Toys: Physicality, Function, Design, and Art
The Girl Is Out There: Finding Myself In “Go Fish”
Q and Amabel July 2024
“It is impossible to make an antiwar film.”
Amabel Recommends: Lines on Sides & Unmurk
Hard Mode: Difficulty, Agency, and Narrative Gates
City of Six Moons