so I screwed up and was basically absent the weekend I set the doodle poll for (forgot about an event I was going to) so I’ll reset the poll for the upcoming weekend and actually plan better.
Okay, I signed up this time. Yay!
So having just read about mysterium without having played it yet, how hard would it be to play a variant where one of the participants in the séance is actually the murderer? Prior to the game beginning only the ghost and the murderer know the exact details of what went down, so the murderer spends the deliberation phase trying to get other players to focus on the wrong parts of their cards?
It’doesn’t basically be like Avalon or something, adding weird role cards as more people join the game.
This sunday, at 1 pm pst we will play board games online. We’ll use the sb discord channel for voice chat
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OK, I’m in the discord chat
I’ll set up the tts server and make sure it’s functional.
server has been set up
look for the selectbutt server, password “hi tim”
Hey, sorry, I had to drop so early! My wife was trying to clean a mattress and accidentally mixed two things that should not mix, and the whole house filled up with fumes. It was pretty great if you’re into being dizzy haha
Anyway uh next time I will block out two solid hours of no-chemical-mixing time
The card game the world deserves is here:
http://www.hatchetgear.com/into-the-echoside/pre-sale-into-the-echoside
Into the Echoside is a fast-paced, highly entertaining, tactical deckbuilding game designed for 2 to 4 players that is set in a world inspired by the music of the Insane Clown Posse and Juggalo subculture.
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is a sentence that will always make me indescribably happy
I played FLASHPOINT which I keep incorrectly calling OPERATION FLASHPOINT.
It’s a pretty fun and original little game (it’s about fighting fires and saving people trapped in buildings), but like a lot of co-op games, I’ve found that I would honestly rather play it as a single player strategy PC game. In fact, I’d REALLY like to play that.
Also some of the specialists are totally useless.
We managed to finish the game (the easiest board) saving everyone, moments before the building collapsed.
Did someone in here say OPERATION FLASHPOINT???
Thanks to whoever recommended Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, which is kiinnddaaa like a multiplayer hunt the wumpus. I just played my deluxe copy and I looovveee it, even if I’m terrible (I kept killing other aliens by accident). The rest of my group seemed to really enjoy it too, and the fact that it goes up to 8 players means it’s one that we can pull out often.
I wasn’t too impressed with the condition it arrived in though. It was packaged poorly so the box has a few dents, which annoys me because I want it to be perfect if I pay full price. Some of the player cards also came marked, meaning I can already tell which character some players are. Luckily we only had five players so I just took out the marked ones. I’m going to contact them and see what they say.
Also thanks to whoever recommended Witness! I’ve actually had it for ages but never had the right amount of people. The best way I can describe it is like those Osbourne puzzle books, except you rely on others to give you the information you need to solve the puzzle. Really enjoyed this one (and I did really well) but some of the others didn’t like the stress of having to remember everything (others thought it was comedic), and the whole whispering thing. So I really enjoyed it, but I may need to swap out some people to make a better group for it.
Also one of my friends seemed to have no idea how to whisper and basically said everything at full volume.
this is totally off topic but I used to do this and it turns out my ears were clogged and my hearing was at like 30% of normal people, so I thought I was whispering but I was really talking at a normal volume. So maybe they need to get their ears cleaned
Does anyone else find deckbuilding games really unengaging? I just don’t get the appeal. I mean, they’re okay, but it just feels like competitive solitaire by the end.
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Well, the better ones are more interactive, but yeah, that’s about the gist of it.
Most deckbuilders are bad, yeah. The good ones tend to avoid being solitaire but I am pretty sure there are only a few good ones. I think maybe deckbuilding works better as a mechanic in a larger game, a la mage knight
I like the idea of deckbuilding but it seems like the problems with it always have to do with having to actually fit both the deckbuilding mechanics and the actual game in one experience and it tends to weaken both parts if you treat both equally
and as I’m typing this tulpa’s post comes up so yeah basically that point
but something about the experience of putting together a sick deck of cards that you’ll totally win with and it’s YOURS and NO ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU is compelling to me
maybe the way to do that is to turn it into a literal physical contest and just have people grab cards in real time as fast as they can and then have a game to play after like a weird galaxy truckers thing
The current brawl (cycling game type) in hearthstone is basically a deck-builder. They give you a whole deck of these guys:
and it’s a pretty neat spin on the whole thing. You have to spend mana to discover stuff, which is a weird little mechanic, and there’s a lot of different ways to approach things. Also, since that is a spell, it makes a lot of silly interactions happen, which is always fun in a brawl.
Has anyone ever read a good post-mortem on what it’s like to program a digital board game? I’ve been working on something and I think it might work better digitally than on an actual paper, even if it might generally expect all players to be physically in the same room. I’m wondering if anyone out there has a few words that could tell me what I’d be getting into.