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.

We have quite a few games that are for three or more players that we don’t get to play a lot… so Heinze thought of a solution! 😉

It’s been another busy week and Saturday also was my birthday! Hurray! Since there was a family day planned on that date many months ago, I celebrated it on Sunday. I might not have been able to play some games, but I did get two! One of them was 7 Wonders Duel! A lot of people call this one of the best 2-player games out there and we have never played it before. So that’s finally going to change!

I also got gifted a self-made boardgame by my nephews of six and eight years old! It has portals, clay miniatures and a battle deck with cards like “golden mist” and “sea explosion”. What else can you want?! The only issue might be the size of the thing since it’s 90x60cm we have no idea where to store it yet. 😉

Last week we’ve played a four-player game of Great Western Trail and we got to test our new horse meeples! 😀 Efka of NoPunIncluded pointed these out to us a while back and ever since we were really keen on owning our own set of horses. They make sense for cowboy-like figures and look adorable on the board. 😉 If you’re interested, we got them at a German webshop called spielmaterial.de.
Our game itself was really exciting too. All player scores ended up really close to each other. There was only a difference of 5 points between the first and the last player! I don’t think we’ve ever seen that before.

We’ve both had a terrible off-week last week after the UK Games Expo. And Heinze always has very interesting dreams when he’s feeling ill..! We’ve been joking that a lot of game publishers have animal names in their company names and we finally wanted to make a comic about that. If I had more time, I could have also included the bigger names that don’t have animals in their name but do have them in their logos. You could start a zoo! 😉

Last week, we’ve played Treasure Island with friends for the first time! And that was fun! I took on the role of Long John Silver and managed to keep the silly pirates away from my treasure, yarrr! It’s not the deepest of games, but I did really enjoy it. I thought it would be a lot harder playing Long John Silver, but I had the luck that I could give some completely useless information to the group with a few hint cards which frustrated them to bits. We did, however, immediately order some chalk markers for some more contrast to increase the visibility of the lines on the board.

On Thursday night I played another game of Crisis with friends! In round six, we noticed that we had accidentally played it on “easy” instead of “medium/hard”. We were already wondering why the economy was at its max all the time. It was interesting to see how that changed the dynamics of the game since nobody really had to pay notice to not crashing the economy and just doing whatever they liked. The game is really starting to grow on me, so many thanks to Calvin for introducing us to it!