Mar 22, 2020

Emma and Gil welcome Jonny
Pac, designer of Coloma and different video games set within the Gold Rush
West. Our principal matter of dialogue is a number of paths to victory:
what it brings to a recreation, what sorts of video games want it, what sorts
of video games do not, and keep away from the dreaded “level salad”
impact.

Jonny’s revealed video games:

• Hangtown
• Coloma
• A Fistful of Meeples
• Sierra West
• Lions of Lydia (on
  Kickstarter as of the discharge of this episode!)
• Merchant’s Cove

Show notes:

06m28s: Jonny likens Scythe to a race recreation. Check out Chapter 2
of Characteristics
of Games (George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, Ok. Robert
Gutschera) for extra details about the excellence between a
“race” and a “brawl.”

07m35s: Games talked about:
Lords of Waterdeep
Caylus
Caylus 1303

08m32s: Games talked about:
Catan

09m48s: Games talked about:
7 Wonders Duel

12m56s: Ah, the “Victory Points Suck” argument! Here is the unique speak, and
right here
is the rebuttal weblog submit that Gil wrote. (Scott Westerfeld is
really a extremely cool particular person; he was simply being a bit
hyperbolic.)

13m32s: Games talked about:
Get Bit
Red Dragon Inn

15m02s: Games talked about:
Agricola

18m06s: Games talked about:
Azul
El Grande
6 Nimmt!

22m27s: Games talked about:
Point Salad

32m01s: Games talked about:
Century: Spice Road

34m09s: Games talked about:
Dominion

35m58s: Games talked about:
Tzolk’in
Terra Mystica

42m12s: Games talked about:
Carcassonne

46m47s: Games talked about:
Ticket to Ride
Amazonas

49m28s: Zero-level heuristics – the methods and techniques gamers
embrace when first studying the sport. Go again to
Characteristics of Games, Chapter 4, for a superb
introduction to this matter.

51m11s: Games talked about:
Stone Age

53m14s: Games talked about:
Concordia

56m38s: Tragedy of
the Commons is a widely known recreation principle drawback that pits
collective good versus self-interest. 

1h01m55s: Games talked about:
Santa Maria
Raja of the Ganges
Castles of Burgundy

1h04m58s: For those that could not know, ASCAP and BMI are the 2
largest music efficiency
rights organizations in America. They monitor radio play and
stay performances, and be sure that each time a track is performed
publicly, its rightsholder will get paid.

1h06m27s: Eat Poop You Cat is the exercise that Telestrations
was based mostly on.

1h09m42s: More information on Placerville,
CA. 

1h13m42s: Games talked about:
Five Tribes
Trajan
Istanbul
Spacewalk

1h14m34s: Jonny is referring to Ludology
176 – Taxonomy Driver.