I biked over to the farmer’s market on California Ave this Sunday. HODO Soy wasn’t there again, and their spot was taken by a crepes stand. It makes me wonder if they will be coming back to the farmer’s market or if they called it quits. I decided to grab some bolani, got Steph some more of the yogurt she likes, and had a lamb curry wrap for brunch. The ride was very nice, even though it was a little cool out.
Last night Michael and I went over to Andrew’s place to join him and Adam in a small MTG draft. It was a good bit of fun, and I always enjoy learning the new mechanics. I had a really fun little deck based around the heroic ability. Some of the combos I was able to play got pretty out of hand like 2 Phalanx Leaders and a Dauntless Onslaught or Triton Tactics. The outcome of the draft was that I got a close second to Adam. First round was Me vs. Michael (2:0) and Adam vs Andrew (2:1). Second round was Adam vs. Me (2:1) and Andrew vs. Michael (2:?). We did a third round of Me vs. Andrew (2:1) and Michael vs. Adam (2:1). All in I think that means that Adam was the overall winner with me just behind, but it was nice to have a rock/paper/scissors kind of win base. Adam’s removal cards were what really did me in, and I should have had a few counters since I was playing blue/white.
We went to Oren’s for lunch and brought along a bottle of orange sauce. It was soooo tasty, and I ate way too much. We might make a habit of taking the orange sauce out to eat since it was so good.
We had lunch and then went to Hacker Dojo to meet with some of the people Steph knows about the game idea we have. They thought it was a great idea and gave us a good launching point, and hopefully they will be able to point us in the right direction on some stuff once we get our roadmap done.
I went up to the city on Friday to work with Bill and Steven at Steven’s place. They are doing well and Preet stopped by for a visit as well. I’ll probably go down to visit them from time to time.
Steph, Tina, and I played some Race for the Galaxy yesterday. We did 2 round with Steph winning both handily. I got some setups going and then just didn’t get any of the cards needed to pull them off. It was a little disappointing, but that tends to happen in Race. I’m not good enough to quickly switch strategies midway through.
This game was tons of fun, and the expansion added a lot of really interesting new elements that make the ship building much more complex and interesting. The lasers everywhere approach isn’t nearly as powerful on this version, as the internal intruders will take out a good bit of that kind of ship. I figured out a lot about how to use the new components a little late in the process, but next time I play that it will be a great time. I played with Chris and Jeff. Jeff was way behind, but I got 100 points with Chris getting 107, so the game was pretty close. Had I been the first player in any round I probably would have taken the win.
Last night I had a really great round of Tzolk’in. Adam, Illia, and David were playing with me, and I was going full out god pleasing. Surprisingly I didn’t use the end of the food track that much, but instead used the more powerful top of the building track. I think next time I’ll employ a similar strategy, but instead of doing the food track focus on the resource track. I ended up with a score of 86, which is one shy of the highest score we’ve seen in the game.
Last night we played video games at Beachhead. We had 2 TV’s running and got a good number of systems there. We had the XBox, Wii + U, PS3, and GameCube. I mainly played super smash brothers. I also got some people to play test one of the games I’m working on and they had good feedback on it.
