Purple Moose Plays

YouTube video by Purple Moose Plays Purple Moose Plays...Transmissions (solo)

New video up on the channel! This week I took a look at the rondel based resource management, set collection game, Transmissions, from designer Adam West and CrossCut games.
youtu.be/CkSbfASAjCM?...

Sasuga Beppu-san! Love this art!

Just punched my copy this week. Hoping to dive in soon, hope your feeling better soon and can do the same as well!

New preview game from @offthepagegames.bsky.social and a new trade (RIP Triton Noir) came in today! Excited to dive into both of these!

Love to see this, would love to see DVC blow up. Big fan of Scream Park and Typeset, and have high hopes for Signal and Here Lies (have copies but haven't tried them yet).

Can't make it to Tokyo Game Market myself, but was lucky to have someone grab me some stuff this time! These are the goodies I've got coming soon. Can't wait!

Loved that movie, is it worth a read? Or does confusing mean don't bother.

Nice surprise package in the mail today. Very excited to try this one out! But wow, this rulebook is nearly unreadable...

This thread goes into detail with photos of the design copying… and the replies link to MULTIPLE previous threads about these products and the publisher’s business practices.

Also got a chance to try out Mecenat this week, the second game in the National Economy box. Cool to see how the different cards mix up the game play. This one has point cards you can collect while playing and also has some huge end game scoring cards that require some real work to pay off.

Played Atlas Lost twice today. Solo is pretty damn hard, but enjoying it quite a bit (and was only a turn or two away from a win in the first game!). It's an interesting take on tech trees in a race game with multiple end game triggers, plus a bit of resource management.

Random question though, you pronounce your last name with a "steen" sound at the end, right? The Japanese transliteration of your name pronounces it like the German drinking vessel.

Ooh, may need to add a copy of this to our school library! I'm a science teacher at a Japanese boarding school in New York, and also, it looks like this is published by Hayakawa, who our school also has a relationship with!

If not too late, Museum of the Moving Image in Queens!

Fairly new one, mostly focused on playing games, in New Jersey in March. Think it was started by Alex Radcliffe of Board Game Co and a few others.

Any plans to go to Level Up in March?

Ooh, very nice! Very bummed to be missing it this year...

Have you seen Fantasy Map Maker? It's a PnP roll and write (physical edition hitting Kickstarter in February) that seems to be a leveled up version of Cartographers. Just discovered it this week and should have a prototype coming soon!

Not sure, but @25thcentury.games should be, and they distribute Conservas in the States!

Very curious about the new lightweight skirmish game, Little Soldiers, coming soon(?) from Iello. It's basically kids playing with army men turned into a game with rules!

Never good with lists, and part of my love of the hobby is discovering new things, so very hard to make a top 10 list, but it would include things like
Castles of Burgundy
Civolution
Obsession
R.O.V.E.
Merchants Cove
Coloma
GlenMore II
It's a Wonderful World
Orleans
And then SETI or Snow Planner?

I've got three for now, but am certainly feeling you on that...

Another new game to the table, picked up a copy of Transmissions to introduce my students to rondels. Very glad I got this one, as it's very fun. Somewhat simple set collection rondel game, with a nice bit of tableau/engine building and a secondary bit of tile laying as well.

Finished the game with points of 50, 60, 170 (me), and 380...!?...from the student who kept taking the gambler and nailing his bid every time...

Finally got my copy of Tricktakers to the table, showing off trick taking to my students, and yeah, it's as good as they say. May very well become my favorite trick taker. The variable player powers make things super interesting. 1/2

YouTube video by Purple Moose Plays Purple Moose Plays...National Economy: Progress (solo)

New video up on the channel! This is the first of four videos on the solo modes of National Economy from Korokorodou, starting with a solo playthrough of the first game in the set, Progress!
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YouTube video by Purple Moose Plays Purple Moose Plays...I Made You a Mixtape (solo) - review copy

New video up on the channel! This week I took a look at the solo mode for the I split, you choose card drafting, set collection game, I Made You a Mixtape!
youtu.be/B0aT0Olbc4g?...

Finished my first game of Civolution today. Played it little by little over the course of a few days, and am sure I didn't do everything right, but I had a blast doing it and think it'll get even better as I learn more of the combo-y goodness.

Finally got my copy of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood to the table today. It's a crisis management game a la Pandemic that uses an interesting color based set collection system using cards that are also your attack actions that remove the nasties off of the board.

So excited to finally have Feudum back in my collection, in a new anniversary edition. Also, how could I ever turn down these socks...