Quick update: I had my first win in Friday, the game I wrote about in my last post. Two things I did differently this time around:
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“Friday” Solo on a Thursday Night
My good friends Ben and Lizzy got me a copy of a game called Friday for my birthday recently. I think it’s my first single player tabletop game aside from the various forms of solitaire you can play with a poker deck. This is a deck building game themed off of Robinson Crusoe, with you as the player trying to toughen up Robinson before he gets himself killed. I’ve played it five times now, and I’ve lost every single time. But I’ve played enough to have some thoughts on the game.
Read More »DC Comics Deck Building Game Blog Post
One of Amazon’s daily deals recently was a set of discounts on a handful of board games, some of which I owned, but most of which I didn’t and hadn’t heard much about. One of the ones I had heard nothing about was the DC Comics Deck Building Game, which I promptly snatched up for a very reasonable price. I was skeptical, for some reason, about anything licensed by DC, maybe because they license a lot of crap, and because it stank of something that was not a labor of love created by an independent game designer nor a project benefitting from the expertise an established game studio with a proven track record, but its odor was instead of capitalization on the popularity of deck building games.Read More »
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