On the table this evening: a couple of light games while we chatted design. Faraway (I love this game and its backward scoring), and Diced Veggies. I picked up the latter after I started working on a game with a similar theme, but different mechanisms. Which was just an excuse—I would have bought it anyway because KTBG do such a great job :) Really consistent style by Josh Cappel across the catalog. If you play games with kids, use that as an excuse to get their titles. Where was I? Oh yeah. Puns. More games need puns as titles.
[#]boardGames
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Dear phone manufacturers, please… fucking stop this. Let me swap out a battery without having to disassemble the entire device.
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This afternoon's* soundtrack contains Brian Bromberg.
https://brianbromberg.bandcamp.com/album/lafaro
[#]jazz
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Our local (#Adelaide) game design (#boardGames) group has its first session of the year this coming Saturday afternoon. Ping me for details if you're interested.
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A snapshot of 2024.
Faraway;
Windmill Valley;
Deep Dive;
Freelancers: A Crossroads Game;
The Guild of Merchant Explorers;
Rebuilding Seattle;
Waffle Time;
Architects of the West Kingdom;
Ark Nova;
Brian Boru: High King of Ireland;
My City;
Creature Comforts;
Cthulhu: Death May Die – Fear of the Unknown;
SCOUT;
Finca;
Five Tribes: The Djinns of Naqala;
Ra;
Forest Shuffle;
Gnome Hollow;
Heat: Pedal to the Metal;
Arkham Noir: Case #1 – The Witch Cult Murders;
Iberian Gauge;
Cantaloop: Book 1 – Breaking into Prison;
Junk Orbit;
Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest.
[#]BGStats #boardGames
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Does anyone have a recommendation for an infocom disassembler that I can run on OSX? I'd like to pull something out of a .z5 file as I've found a very cryptic calendar entry I made several years ago for an upcoming date.
[#]interactiveFiction
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“Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, is a school teacher and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent.”
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Long Kiss Goodnight is on ABC iview if you’re in need of a #christmasMovies tonight.
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/long-kiss-goodnight
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Wishing all a metal Xmas
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kKak4tYikrY1hU9laA3jAjZqGrZUhlQNo
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Made a new friend this afternoon
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Sadly Jennell passed away earlier this year. Her game designs brought so many people so much happiness.
Thank you, Jennell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennell_Jaquays
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[#]TotAN — Tales of the Arabian Nights
About 14 hours left on the campaign!
Going Solo. With all of the gamebooks like Fighting Fantasy in the 80s it’s not surprising that the original game had a solo mode. To win you had to reach your Story and Destiny goals, become Fabulously wealthy, and complete 2 quests before the event deck ran out.
Did you know there were plans to produce a computer game version in the 90s? New solo tales were written by the talented Jennell Jaquays and Kevin Maroney. These recently came to light, and they’re now the basis of the new solo mode for this edition. (I’m going to try to find out more about this computer game)
In the 40th Anniversary Edition you’ll start with a Solo Quest card that will start you on your journey. The story unfolds over a series of milestones across the map that relate to the new paragraphs in a dedicated book. I’m really looking forward to giving these a good play through when I’ve got a chance. Trying to typeset and avoid spoilers might be a bit hard. squints
https://gamefound.com/projects/play-to-z/tales-of-arabian-nights-40th-anniversary-edition?refcode=GTqm-p1CJEWLTAw3y9UtJg
^ link has a Fediverse-only refcode (I'm trying to get 'em on here!)
[#]boardGames #gameBooks
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Going a bit earlier than that to the 12th century is Al-Idrisi’s world map. I absolutely love that blue ocean colour. The lumpy mountains are a theme in some later cartographer's maps…
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"The map should look like a 13th century Arabic map!"
Al-Qazwini’s world map of the inhabited world:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Cosmography_Zakariya_al-Qazwini.jpg
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(Thanks to @leece for the photos of the 1st edition board!)
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[#]TotAN — Tales of the Arabian Nights
Maps! I love cartography, but I’m not going to make that a hashtag because anyone actually involved with it would cringe at the liberties taken with this warped projection. Having said that I did try to pull and push things around to be closer to where they should be compared to previous versions of the board… and reattached the Malay peninsula. Yeah yeah things are still a bit off—it’s fantasy, ok?
This is the fourth edition of the game, but in my travels I came across four previous versions of the board—there was an Italian version that looked similar to the French one although it had different flavour images. As a 40th Anniversary, I wanted to pay homage to a bit of all the versions while giving it its own personality. The second edition was, I think, German only and it was very dark. Third edition emulated that. The Gallimard edition was gorgeously vibrant and provided the initial direction. Love that map.
“But why isn’t it all grimdark like 3rd ed? It’s got ‘Nights’ right there in the title!”
Well, Scheherazade was telling her tales at night, but the adventures were colourful and dazzling. The board should be, too!
The campaign is in its last 2 days now–currently over 250k AUD!
https://gamefound.com/projects/play-to-z/tales-of-arabian-nights-40th-anniversary-edition?refcode=GTqm-p1CJEWLTAw3y9UtJg
^refcode (should you choose to use it) is for the Fediverse as I'm trying to convince folks to be here with us
[#]boardGames
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The last playtest session for the year of the SA tabletop design group (aka ThinkTank) is on today. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it, but my comrade, Matt, will be cat herding if you have a prototype. Ping me if you want details!
[#]Adelaide #gameDev #boardGames
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Pfolks, what’s your favourite Pfeffernüsse recipe? :boost_ok:
[#]baking
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:boost_ok: I love a good amount of narrativium in my games. An avid reader of the Fighting Fantasy books, I discovered Tales of the Arabian Nights well after it was out of print. Then Z-Man produced a third edition of the game in 2009 and I pounced on it. So much fun. You can imagine how much my eyes lit up when Zev emailed me a few months back asking if I wanted to work on a 40th Anniversary Edition! Happy to have been working on graphic design and art for it.
The crowdfund campaign launched a few hours ago, funding in just over an hour. I don’t get any extra financial gain out of posting about this—I’m just excited to see it in print again.
I might blather on about this a bit, showing sneaky details that aren’t posted elsewhere or talking about graphic design and art. Mute or follow #TotAN to taste.
https://gamefound.com/projects/play-to-z/tales-of-arabian-nights-40th-anniversary-edition?refcode=GTqm-p1CJEWLTAw3y9UtJg
^ I made a refcode just for the fediverse. Help me get them on here!
[#]boardGames #gamebooks
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
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