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Author:  Kern [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 0:01 ]
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Finally won 'The Grizzled'. This is even better than beating 'Pandemic'.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 10:50 ]
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After the "success" of making a Beex drinking game in a grown-up box, I had the genius idea of making my wife a deckbuilding game for Christmas, centred around the crap TV drama she watches (Murder, She Wrote, Monk, etc.).

Turns out that having two different card designs with some text on for the Beex game may have given me a false sense of how easy it would be.

It took fucking ages, but I finally put the order in last night. 432 cards (around 370 different designs) are winging their way to me from China (because only a Chinese company would make it, what with it smashing copyright to pieces).

She'd better fucking like it.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 10:51 ]
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Where did you get the drinking game and the mafia cards printed? They were flipping great!
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 10:52 ]
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They came from https://www.thegamecrafter.com/ . It's fairly easy to do, but it's not cheap - Beex Drink ended up costing about £80 after shipping and VAT and fines, etc.

The latest ones are coming from http://www.artscow.com/ , who aren't board game specialists but do do playing cards that you can customise.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 11:30 ]
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Flipping heck, £80!

And we were just chucking them on the floor! Well done on the game for your wife, she'll love it.
Author:  Cras [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 13:41 ]
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Right? Fuckers.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 13:55 ]
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Grim... wrote:

She'd better fucking like it.


Title.

I do hope she likes it though, sounds like a sweet present. I'm in the process of writing an interactive story for my daughter and keep being hit with pangs of fear that she's going to find it entirely tedious and uninteresting.
Author:  Curiosity [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 13:56 ]
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I got my wife to make mine.

You could say that they were less professional than the Beex Drink game, but I would remind you that she can get violent :D
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 13:56 ]
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What's an interactive story? Like a choose your own adventure book?
Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 14:03 ]
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Grim... wrote:
What's an interactive story? Like a choose your own adventure book?


Yeah, basically. Using this at the moment.

https://twinery.org/

Not managed to integrate illustrations into it yet, which I need to sort out.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 14:07 ]
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That's cute. And you can output that to a book?
Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 14:12 ]
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Grim... wrote:
That's cute. And you can output that to a book?


No I don't think it can do that unfortunately. She will have to enjoy the fruits of my labour as html, I think.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 14:13 ]
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Stanley Parable chap made this using Twine.
Author:  Kern [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 14:18 ]
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There's always this gem from the Beex Archives.

[Edit: and I haven't checked the link within the thread to see if it actually still works]
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 14:18 ]
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Holy crap, 509 pages!
Author:  Findus Fop [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 14:25 ]
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ha, that's excellent. I became a robot who destroyed the world. And, as ever, it was all thanks to anal sex using Castrol GTX.
Author:  TheVision [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 15:39 ]
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Mr Russell wrote:
Flipping heck, £80!



Worth every penny.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Nov 25, 2016 15:46 ]
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It was purchased the day after the pound tanked against the dollar. Thanks, Brexit. Thexit.
Author:  Hearthly [ Sun Nov 27, 2016 8:20 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Forbidden Island is great, and it's accessible enough that non-boardgame-players can pick it up and enjoy it


We played this last night for our boardgame evening game of choice, there were four of us which was perfect, and none of us had played it before so first job was a read-through of the rules which are elegantly simple but allow for plenty of debate and surprisingly deep tactics plus forward planning once you get into the game.

First game was on NORMAL skill level (we skipped novice), which we managed to beat without too much trouble. So after a break for food, PS4 VR and some chatter we had another go on the next to top skill level which I think was called ELITE, the one where you start with three flood cards.

Unfortunately the beers seemed to have clouded judgements somewhat (although I had no excuse as I was designated driver so was totally sober), and we definitely made at least two mistakes, plus we were playing gentlemanly rules so we didn't allow ourselves to 'rewind' and go back a turn to correct an error. (On one turn one of the moomins completely forgot to hand over a treasure card and instead did a shore up with one of his actions, which he wouldn't have got away with had I not been on a mission to the fridge to get more beers (and a fizzy orange for myself)).

It almost looked like we'd just about be able to make it with a combination of a our 'super powers' (the specific abilities each class gets) and clever use of helicopter and sandbag cards, but the flood level got away from us and we hit the skull and crossbones on the flood level marker.

Not entirely sure how much replayability it has overall, but a very enjoyable game and it was nice to play something collaborative rather than competitive.

Definitely something people can pick up quickly as well, you don't need to be some sort of boardgame pro to get the hang of the mechanics in pretty short order.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Sun Nov 27, 2016 8:58 ]
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We have this but maybe I missed a rule because we found it incredibly difficult to get ahead of the flood waters in time.

Difficult enough to not see how it could possibly won ever rather than 'ooh we were unlucky that time'. Maybe I'll have another look.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Mon Nov 28, 2016 10:03 ]
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Not technically a boardgame but its outcome feels more boardgamey than anything else, I played a game called Spaceteam at the weekend. I strongly suspect this is old news to most of you, and seems like the perfect game for a gathering like the Bottage.

For up to 8 players, each downloads the app to their phone. The idea is you're working together to get your ship to fly somewhere (not sure where, it doesn't matter).

It's basically a Star Trek nonsense-calamity simulator. Each person's phone tells them an action that needs to taken to fix the ailing space ship e.g. Launch the technoraptor! And that command relates to a button on your - or someone else's - phone.

And that action needs to be taken within 10 seconds. But this is complicated by the fact that everyone else is shouting commands while trying to hear the commands of other. It's noisy, chaotic and very funny (and probably quite similar to that bomb disarmament game).

Spaceteam
Author:  TheVision [ Mon Nov 28, 2016 10:33 ]
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I've played this with 3 of my friends and it is indeed brilliant.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Nov 28, 2016 10:37 ]
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Look at Mr Popular, there.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Mon Nov 28, 2016 11:46 ]
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Yep, even works cross hardware, and we've played with 2 android losers and 2 iPhone champions.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Dec 05, 2016 23:57 ]
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One day I will win a netrunner game.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:35 ]
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Grim... wrote:
After the "success" of making a Beex drinking game in a grown-up box, I had the genius idea of making my wife a deckbuilding game for Christmas, centred around the crap TV drama she watches (Murder, She Wrote, Monk, etc.).

Turns out that having two different card designs with some text on for the Beex game may have given me a false sense of how easy it would be.

It took fucking ages, but I finally put the order in last night. 432 cards (around 370 different designs) are winging their way to me from China (because only a Chinese company would make it, what with it smashing copyright to pieces).

She'd better fucking like it.

They've arrived!

Now I can get on with the rest of it.

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Author:  Grim... [ Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:36 ]
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Already found a spelling mistake >:(
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:37 ]
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That's not Mark Sloan! Send it back!
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Dec 08, 2016 12:38 ]
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Wrong Mark Sloan ;)
Author:  Cras [ Thu Dec 08, 2016 13:39 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Already found a spelling mistake >:(


Go go awesome proofreaders!
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:26 ]
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The first playtest with a mocked-up board went well!

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A printed board cost me £27 :'(
Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:44 ]
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Looks excellent!

Q) If I were to buy Ticket to Ride to play with groups of people who have never before played Ticket to Ride, which Ticket to Ride would I be best buying? Ticket.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:46 ]
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I would say US
Author:  Kern [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:12 ]
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Agreed. TTR Europe has its fans for getting people in, but explaining the tunnels, ferries, and station rules adds a little bit more complexity which early on might be off-putting.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:21 ]
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Kern wrote:
Agreed. TTR Europe has its fans for getting all aboard, but explaining the tunnels, ferries, and station rules adds a little bit more complexity which early on might be off-putting.


Missed anopportunty, there
Author:  Kern [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 16:05 ]
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Grim...: that looks brilliant!
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Dec 12, 2016 16:09 ]
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It had fucking better be.
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Dec 14, 2016 14:56 ]
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Adding it up, i have 24/35 netrunner datapacks, a core set, 2 deluxe expansions and 6 alt art cards. Which is frightening. Good news is, only 11 datapacks to go to catch up to right now, and 2 deluxe expansions.
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Dec 14, 2016 14:57 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Adding it up, i have 24/35 netrunner datapacks, a core set, 2 deluxe expansions and 6 alt art cards. Which is frightening. Good news is, only 11 datapacks to go to catch up to right now, and 2 deluxe expansions.


Oh, and 12 datapacks cycle out late 2017.....
Author:  Curiosity [ Wed Dec 14, 2016 15:43 ]
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Elizabeth Mills!
Author:  MaliA [ Wed Dec 14, 2016 15:47 ]
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I love Lizzie M, and all cards she appears on.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 14:46 ]
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Board has arrived!

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(Adrian Monk for scale)

Now I just need the box to turn up and to print out the instructions, and it's all done!
Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 14:54 ]
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Looks amazing!
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 14:55 ]
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Good work.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 14:55 ]
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Mrs Grim... is going to be chuffed!
Author:  Cras [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 18:37 ]
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I'm most interested in the casting couch, frankly.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 22:46 ]
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Cras wrote:
I'm most interested in the casting couch, frankly.

I was tempted to give that a screen grab from one of the films but decided not to.
Author:  MaliA [ Mon Dec 19, 2016 23:59 ]
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And that's Netrunner done for the year. What started out as losses became closer losses then a few wins. We're now back to closer losses again, but things are up a notch.

I will keep going at it.
Author:  TheVision [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:51 ]
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We played another game of Hero Quest last night and ace it was too. Playing as the dungeon master, I managed to kill the Elf but I was no match for the Dwarf and Wizard as they won the game in the end and managed to get Sir Ragnor to safety.
Author:  myp [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:32 ]
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TheVision wrote:
We played another game of Hero Quest last night and ace it was too. Playing as the dungeon master, I managed to kill the Elf but I was no match for the Dwarf and Wizard as they won the game in the end and managed to get Sir Ragnor to safety.

Stop teasing me!
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