Pretentious Board Games

On Tuesday I went to the Layton BGDG meeting a bit early and played a few games before the meeting started. I got some good feedback, and thought that I would record it here. Deception: The game should be bigger. When you lose armies, you should gain things to offset the loss of armies (abilities?) Secret goals? More players? - attack the people near you only Grab the Loot: Calculate scores differently - add greed cards into everyone's loot to simplify it. Make a game over card to add to the bottom of the greed deck. Add to the rules the "do everything that you can" rule, so that when an ability is impossible, you still get to use it Double sided greeds that are rotatable Record scores to see if they are too swingy, and recalculate to make them tighter Slots should not be the same Make players have a secret treasure (or greed) that other players do not know about. Spend your loot for abilities. Spend treasure to flip up a card? Break the scoring t...

I brought The Perfect Moment  to the last BGDG meeting. It was at Demolition Games  for the first time. The venue is nicer than the last place that we met at. We had 11 people, and only one person brought a game (which only supported two players). I presented  The Perfect Moment , which received good feedback. We decided to change the Ring card to allow players to trade cards. I also showed off my new artwork for the first time. They liked the new look better than my original look. I have gotten the laser cutter working really well. It cut out all of the cards for  The Perfect Moment . I should probably have it cut out tiles for Terran League of Defense Robots , but I have not spent the time to do that yet. I have, however, been preparing to present The Age of Vikings at SaltCon . The Age of Vikings was declared a finalist in the Ion Awards this year. That has been where a lot of my time has gone, but I have also been fine tuning my laser cutter, and cutting ou...