Robert and I just put live the kickstarter campaign for the game we’ve been working on for the last 2 months.
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This was quite a nice event. We played two different games while there. Dragon’s Crown and Mario for the Wii U. They were both incredibly chaotic games, and we didn’t do terribly well in either. Luckily they are designed for people who can’t play games that well. One is the hack and slash, and the other is a very forgiving platformer.
Jeremy made his famous dip, and also the elusive pizza dip. They were both quite delicious, and I ate way to much of both of them. He also had a nice selection of beer, and I got some more caps for my collection.
I think I figured out the optimal strategy in this game, finally. It seems that if you push hard for resource tech early, then push hard on the resource wheel, then get some crystal skulls, you can take over the points. I wasn’t able to pull it off this past game, due to time considerations for the others involved. I need to be a lot more awake and ready to do the math for the building costs, especially with the resource strategy.
Last night Steph, Adam, Andrew, Lindsey and I played some open face chinese poker. This was fun, and we had to alternate who wasn’t in. There were a few hands where I had a really amazing hand that would fault by just the tiniest bit. It happened a good number of times, so I should probably be a bit more reserved, or at least have better backups in place.
I ended up 13 down, and steph was 21 up.
I had people over for my housewarming on Monday. It turned out to be a little too warm. When I turned on 2 burners and had the oven going the little amount of airflow that I could get from the apartment just wasn’t enough and it started to heat up substantially. Steve was probably the most effected by it, but everyone felt a little warm to say the least.
I ended up having Jeremy B, Adam, Andrew, Amy, Adelaide, Tina, Amit, Candice, Brian, Nick, Steve, and Steve’s wife over. It was a very large crowd for the space and I could not have fit more people in than were already there. I was somewhat surprised by the turnout since only half of them said that they would be there.
We played some cards against humanity and open faced chinese poker. The games worked really well in the space, and with the crowd that was there. Everyone liked the kitties, and played with them using the laser pointer. I think things went as well as could be expected.
I cooked a baked mac ‘n’ cheese dish, that turned out really well. The bacon was super tasty in it. I think I’ll make it again and take it over to beachhead for dinner on Thursday. Jeremy brought over a cake, Amy brought over ice cream and root beer, Brian brought over some chips and dip, and Wit brought over some really tasty beer. Nick also brought over most of the Liquor that we had built up, I’m assuming once he finds a place he’ll want me to bring over some of the nicer stuff that he likes to his housewarming.
This variant of poker is much more my style of game than other poker variants. I can use strategy and planning in this version, whereas the other ways of playing poker are more about meta game and probabilities. The way the game is played is each player has 3 hands, a top, middle, and bottom. The top hand is only 3 cards and must be the worst hand. The middle and bottom hands are 5 cards each, and the bottom must be better than the middle and top. The players are dealt 5 cards to start, which they can split any way they like. The cards are then dealt out 1 by 1 and each player chooses where to place the card in their hands.
The scoring is the tricky part. If you fault you lose all your hands, that is if the strength of the hands is not bottom>middle>top. From there you go hand for hand against each player. If you beat a player for all 3 hands then you get 6 points from them. If you beat the player for 2 of 3 then you only get 1 point. You lose the respective points for losing in the respective manners. If you have a really good hand (straight or better) in the middle or bottom then you get bonus points. If you have a pair of 6’s or better in the top you get bonus points.
The last rule is called Fantasy Land, and only happens when you have a pair of queens or better in the top. I’m not going to go too much into how that works, but it is really powerful and you get all 13 cards at once.
This game is really well balanced, and automatically so. The way in which you take boasts to balance out the character offering is genius. It is a form of drafting where nothing is ever out of the question. We played 2 rounds. I lasted the longest on the first, but wasn’t able to kill much of anything. The priest is kind of like that if he doesn’t have a great weapon. The second round I was the prospector with a sling. Normally that wouldn’t be good, but since we had some really big monsters and a lot of tiny ones, I was able to use the sling and survive a while. I also got really lucky with a few of the rolls to make me absolutely destroy the others. I ended that round with 28 gold. This is a really amazing game that only takes about 30 minutes to run through and is pleasantly synchronous.
The versatility of this game makes it fun to play over and over again. We played another round of it tonight at 906. This was the first time we had a 5 person game, and I must say that it was a little attack heavy. Even so it was really fun. I got destroyed first turn, where I would have been able to get a fantastic engine going had either of my first two cards I put down survived. That was the most annoying part of this play. Adam won again, with me in second. Chris was a very close third, and nick was a somewhat close 4th. Jeff was far in last, due to him not playing as recently as the rest of us.
I played a really close game of New Era last night, and would have really run away with it if there had been one more turn. Adam got exactly 33 points to end the game, with me sitting at 32 points and a great engine on my board. I didn’t have many point scoring cards, which is what really did me in. I should have gotten a few more, and payed more attention to when I could have gotten them. I think picking up a point scoring card on the third turn would have made my life much easier. I got an amazing start with the New Road card being in my starting hand with a good number of small buildings to put down. I need to focus on not building the engine on turn 3 and 4, but focus on getting points instead. I think that is where I have been falling short so far.
Adam and Andrew came to 906 to play with Nick and I. We might end up having games night there if no one else is hosting.
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