Last night I played a Funko's Scream Game with three other people, and the overall feeling I get is that is perfectly emulated the anxiety of working in a disfunctional team: someone understand rules badly, everyone's shouting at the same time and no one plays cooperative, but trying to get rid of their objective.
Hey boardgamers with your resources represented by various coloured wooden cubes. When thinking about #immigration, remember that #immigrants are one of those resources. Sure, every 20th light brown wooden cube or so may come with a point penalty. But the net effect of receiving those cubes is super strong. It's how you win the game after the Demographic Transition.
The #Scifi Book Stores in #Stockholm, #Gothenburg and #Malmö are one of Sweden's most profitable businesses in book retail. They sell tabletop games as well. So at their recent equity issuance I did something unprecedented and bought some stock.
The Stockholm #Scifi Book Store is bang in the middle of the Old Town's main tourist street, where almost every other shop space offers either tacky souvenirs, meals or snacks. Big shop, hundreds of square metres on two floors. It's amazing that they can make that work!
Tried my hand at another game of #TinyEpicDinosaurs but this time used a more balanced solo variant from the BGG forums and it was much more enjoyable. I won by 5 but never felt like I was running away with the game.
Took folks to school playing #PaoloMori's #LibertaliaWindsOfGalecrest, but just literally speaking, as I was teaching the game. 😁 I did win, but just a squeaker of a couple points. Tight spread between players at the finish, which always makes for a more tense game. Chaotic, but so much fun and underrated in my book.
Started playing Don't Get Got with the family and it's vicious! It's a game that goes on in the background as you do other things, potentially over days.
Everyone has 5 tasks - things that they need to get someone else to do. If they call you out on it, the task fails. Whoever completes 3 first, wins.
Tasks are mostly inconspicuous stuff, like "Get someone to do a dance", or "Tell a player something is voice-activated. Get them to try it".
If you haven't checked out the latest video on #TheFoxExperiment click the link below. It'll take you only 3 minutes to learn about this game and see if it's right for you.
Heute das erste Mal #skyteam gespielt. Das ist ein interessantes Spielkonzept, ein Flugzeug zu landen. Allerdings, ob man ein Stichspiel (#dieCrew), ein Kartenanlegespiel (#tippitoppi) oder was anderes kooperativ spielt (#SpiritIsland oder #SwitchandSignal ), spielt an sich keine Rolle. Das klingt hart, ist aus meiner Sicht aber so.
Was wir machen müssen, sollte bekannt sein. Zwei Personen spielen Pilot und Copilot. 1/3 @boardgame@brettspiele#Brettspiele#boardgames
Played through Aeon's End: Legacy with my friend Dan in two weekends flat. That was a LOT of fun, and made for us two custom, unique breach magi that we can use in (re-)playing the New Age box and then the Outcasts campaign.
All in all, loved it. Tempted to do a custom box to hold our magi. Planning an expedition for the two of us for the next time we get to play.
Tried the reworked Starship Catan and apart from a few dodgy component choices it seems a worthwhile update. Particularly as our old copy was getting quite worn. I actually performed worse than I ever have and only got to 4 VP before Raphael won.
UKGE games played summary below. Event itself was intense but rewarding.
Saturday extremely busy and we hunkered down in the gaming area mostly to avoid the throngs. Sunday was calmer and we spent more time slowly visiting the various booths and occasionally gaming. After nine year hiatus, I think I probably would go again next year. We shall see.
Finally got around to playing A Song of Ice and Fire - the miniatures game and quite liked it. Was very skeptical about having entire units on trays, but it was fine. Loved how visceral the combat felt - a hurt giant can do some serious damage. The background diplomacy board thing was also more interesting than I thought it would be. You can include non-combat units in your army, then activate them to move them onto the diplomacy board for helpful effects. #asoiaf#boardgames#TabletopWargaming
Looking forward to trying this mini expansion for Forest Shuffle, which apparently addresses some of the balance issues with those wolf and deer combos. Oh, and also a sweet little promo card.