Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...

One of the cards in “Pantheon,” John James Anderson’s creative-career board game, should grab the rueful attention of aspiring artists — and anyone who writes about them.

Glistening blue and green orbs and biomorphic shapes erupt from a dense black background, drawing our gaze into and around the pulsating canvas. Oscillating like a close-up of atoms, we confront our ...