I’m sure that there are creative and ingenious ways to make a tool that can write when you’re out and about, but it just would have been easier if you’d a pen or pencil with you. 😉

This comic is vacation-themed and that’s with good reason! I’m taking the rest of August off to recharge and prevent getting a burn-out because of working way too many hours every week. But luckily, you will hardly notice that Heinze and I are taking some time off. 😉 Our sketchies will continue updating weekly on Wednesdays as usual and we’ve arranged really cool guest artists to take over the coming four comics on Mondays! We’re super excited to share our stage with other talented people and to see how different our characters will look like. Hype!

When we called out for guest artists, we’ve got a lot of replies from artists and even more than the four slots that we had to fill. So we might do more guest comics in the future if it is convenient with our schedules. The coming four weeks, you’ll see comics made by Mariecke Kouwenberg, Anni K. Ninchen, Jan Jaap Sandee and David S. Livens.

But that’s in the future. This past weekend was GenCon, but we were way too busy attending GenCan’t. 😉 We embraced the advantages of not going to GenCon and organized a high tea game day yesterday. That meant a lot of delicious food, good tea, and fun games as you can see in the pictures. We started off in style with a game of Dinosaur Tea Party, followed by Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell where we drank a lot of tea visiting connections and going to fashionable parties! After a scone break outside in the garden, it was time for Cat Lady… because, cats! We continued on to another excellent game to play while enjoying a cup of tea, Dragon Castle. After a light dinner, everybody was ready for a bigger game and we let go of the high tea theme a little and we’ve played Great Western Trail. We ended the night with a light game of our own custom made Love Letter. A great start of the vacation I might say.

What are your favorite games to take along on a holiday?

 

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Heinze should know better than to get on an artist’s bad side. 😉 But it’s true, the undo-command is certainly something I use a lot!

Undo is a puzzle type game in which you try to change the past and prevent the death of an individual. We haven’t played it yet but the premise sounds intriguing and we love one-time puzzle games, especially when you don’t have to destroy components, because then you have a great experience to share with friends!

Let’s talk about what we played! We’ve continued our Gloomhaven campaign and we are now 26 games in. We’re starting to see some patterns how side stories are set up over multiple scenarios but it’s still a lot of fun. We doubt we’ll ever finish the whole campaign but so far it has been really cool and we’ve been playing it more than we expected at the start.

We also tried the first scenario of Undaunted Normandy, a deckbuilding WW2 war game by Osprey. The first scenario is a training scenario but has us interested in trying it more, the design does a whole lot of cool things with a minimal amount of rules. The game was also really quick, which is not something that we normally expect with wargames.

For this week, we’ve got some fun game days planned continuing our Charterstone campaign, playing some Aristea and probably some Wingspan. With our vacations coming up we’re also thinking about playing some bigger games that take all day, but those plans are still in an early phase and we don’t want to jinx it! 😉

Do you have some vacation time this summer? and which games do you want to play during your time off?

 

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Kickstarter has new rules and regulations on how to present your product to your (potential) backers. You can’t show photorealistic renders of your product anymore, so we took the liberty to help game designers and producers out and came with some original ideas on how to present your game. And yes, the Magic Eye picture in the last frame actually shows a board game component! At least it should, I made it with some kind of online generator. 😀
(btw, note that we don’t know if these new Kickstarter rules really also apply to tabletop products)

Last week we received an amazing package from Corvus Belli that made us blush! So, if Belén is reading this, thank you once again! 😀 Not only were we given their game Aristeia, but also some expansions, fun goodies, and even a comic! We’ve only had the time to play the demo together once, but that certainly was promising! It’s a two-player battle arena game with really cool miniatures and art. If you’d like to know more, you can check out their website. I can’t wait to play it again. I’m taking the entire month of August off, so I hopefully get to play some games then! 😀 And don’t worry, no summer-stop for the comics.

On Thursday we played Gloomhaven and it was once again a rush-level. Whenever the win condition is to reach point X to win the scenario, we always know there is only one way to make it… and that is by running and trying to survive. Those levels often have too many enemies to actually fight them and still have enough cards left to make it to the exit. These are not really my favorite levels because it doesn’t feel like the game was made for rushing like this.

Friday we’ve played Great Western Trail again, but this time with the B-side of the building tiles combined with random placement on the board. This four-player game quickly turned into some kind of slow Monopoly and economic kind of game where it would cost loads of money to simply get to the single cow market on the board for example. For Heinze and me, this totally drained the fun out of the game so we’re going to stick the A-side of the tiles from now on.  🙂

This Thursday, it’s time for part two of the Isle of Cats comic series! If you missed the first one, you can read it here.

Any thoughts on the new Kickstarter regulations?
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