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Good Turnout At Gauteng Level 1 Umpire'S Course.

2020-03-06T08:49:00.001+08:00

All the successful participants of MSSA's Gauteng level 1 umpire's course.

There is no doubt that in order for the standard of gaming to improve, all the support services attached to the industry need to also be improved upon.

Thus Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA), pays particular atttention to the standard of umpiring, and has done so since its inception in 1985.

MSSA's umpires, as as MSSA President Amanda Kwaza, claims, MSSA's front line, for it is the umpires that deal face-to-face with the competitive athletes at a competition, and often have to deal with the press and team management.

Much falls on the broad shoulders of the umpires, making there herculean efforts of great importance and making the umpires a vital cog in the growth of MSSA's activities.

Not only did the Gauteng Level 1 course see an increase in the total numbers attend, but it also saw the number of clubs, and the number of women increase. There were even participants from Botswana and Zimbabwe.

MSSA's umpire's courses are the oldest established such courses among all of IESF's member national federations, and MSSA has had a system in place for accrediting umpires since 1988.

With the increase of participation, it is clear that MSSA is continuing with solid sustainable growth, and will be ablee to deliver more-and-more to its member clubs, Registered Players, and the entire gaming community.

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2020-03-06T07:07:00.001+08:00

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Kriegsspiel: Big Trouble In Little Lardas

2020-03-05T08:50:00.001+08:00

Two weeks ago, I participated in a week-long online Kriegsspiel run by Nick Skinner and Richard Clarke of Too Fat Lardies fame. With a total of 13 participants, two umpires and one observer, it was quite an undertaking. Set within a fictional "Imaginations" campaign of the "Lard War II," the players commanded either the forces of the Kingdom of Blue or the Red Republic. As Nick explained in the game:

Blue has invaded Red and achieved a breakthrough in the central South. Blue's armies are now pushing Northwards towards the crucial line of the NEMUNAS river and the strategically important city of LARDAS that stands at the confluence of two rivers. If they can push on, they will be threatening the capital city of REDBURG. Red forces though are well organised and aware of the danger. What will happen next?

For the participants, the planning portion was the meat and potatoes of the game. We started out by signing into a website and associated app called Discord. Nick set up a server and we joined it. We were immediately assigned to either the Blue or Red force rooms. From there we received our unit assignments and awaited orders.

The Blue forces, of which I was a member, consisted of an airborne division. We had as players the commanding general, chief of staff, two para brigade commanders, a special reconnaissance squadron commander, a divisional artillery battalion commander and me. I was assigned as the commander of a brigade of glider troops.

Speaking of gliders. This film and the real events it represents may have provided may have provided some inspiration.

We confirmed that our organization and equipment was vaguely British. That meant I had three battalions of infantry, each with four companies of four platoons plus a support company. I was also assigned an ambulance company. This seemed a bad omen.

In the background, Nick was briefing the division commanding general and chief of staff with the division mission. A day or so later, after the CG and COS had some time to digest the mission, we received our unit missions. My mission in particular was to neutralize four forts that protect the southern flank of the city and conduct a follow on mission of clearing the two main routes to the city.

The small circles are my objectives, the forts. The larger circles are the landing zones for the gliders. The red areas? Anti-glider poles. To quote a certain British officer, "I'm thinking of a phrase that rhymes with 'plucking bell'." Umpire Nick Skinner took an actual 1:50,000 map and appended new place names, grid line identifiers and other information.

Early in the plans process, I chose to land my initial assault gliders directly on the forts. I figured my best chance was to take the enemy completely by surprise and jump right on top, like at Eben Emael. I had limited resources to get my brigade on the ground. It would take three lifts over the course of two days to get my complete brigade into the battle area. Given my resources at hand, on the initial landings, I would have 20 platoons out of 48 on the ground. Not great odds, I thought. But I had to risk it. Who dares, wins, right?

Plans were set, then changed and changed again as the brigade commanders weighed options and made their cases with the CG and COS for why they should get resources. A feature of Discord that we found handy are voice chat rooms where members can talk via VOIP for planning, rock drills, etc. Blue had two conferences and we found them very beneficial. By the time we had our first conference, we had our plan largely in place and were discussing some of the finer points. The final conference was to make sure everybody had their plans finalized and ask final questions.

My set up for the day of battle. The cards have each lift marked on them with the units and target LZ. As the battle progressed, I put the markers on the map as needed. We didn't get past the first lift on Day 1, although we planned for four days.

The day of battle arrived. As time drew closer for us to climb in our imaginary planes and gliders, top level rooms were locked up and player-to-player communications stopped. We sat at our computers waiting for H-Hour. I received a message that I was on the ground at LZ Baker and could see paras taking heavy fire about a kilometer to the northeast. I could also see and here vicious combat in Fort 2, aka OBJ Grumpy. Then the various communication nets started going live in the form of restricted chat rooms in Discord.

My brigade net room was where I spoke with umpires to get reports from my battalions and request info from them. There was an "on the ground" room for commanders that were up on the division net. Finally there was a division HQ room for those who had established comms with the outside world. Receiving information, parsing it, confirming our own assumptions and then assessing it before putting it up in both the "on the ground" room and Division room was a significant challenge. Luckily, the game was set to last only three hours.

During the game, we were mostly interacting with the umpires and relying on them for information. Issuing orders and requests for information from my imaginary subordinates. I then had to process that info and relay it to my in-game superiors. But only once our in-game communication nets were established! One of the para commanders didn't have comms because his radios got shot up on the DZ. He had to "walk" to where I was and then we could talk to each other and the had to use my "radios" to talk to higher.

Fort 1, OBJ Bashful was taken almost immediately with 30% casualties. Fort 2, OBJ Grumpy, fell only after receiving help from a platoon that had landed on Bashful. Fort 3, OBJ Dopey, was a see-saw battle and I tried mustering forces from Bashful and Grumpy to push it over the edge. Fort 4, OBJ Sleepy, only reported in once their ammo was all expended and the last holdouts were cornered in a bunker and calling "God save the King."

Enemy armored infantry and self-propelled guns had been spotted in the vicinity of Sleepy, so I called for air strikes on the fort with machine gun and cannon only, then follow up with bombs and rockets on the enemy vehicles. Imagine my surprise when I received the report that Sleepy had been destroyed from the air.

In the meantime, I was still trying to get enough forces scratched together to make a difference at Dopey to find it had fallen and was being evacuated, my troops being led away by the enemy. When I asked for clarification if it was Sleepy or Dopey, i was told, "No, it's Dopey, dopey!" Thanks, Rich.

Then the game ended. Luckily, our troops were wholly imaginary and our decisions didn't result in any real casualties. It was an exhilarating, exhausting, madcap, sobering, nervous, mind-blowing experience. I'm planning a podcast with Nick, Richard and the two force commanders. Stay tuned.

I will definitely be looking to do one of these for my J3 group and possibly for my fellow OCS instructors in the near future. Stay tuned for that, as well.

What I Did In 2019

2020-03-05T06:26:00.001+08:00

It's time for my annual self review. You can see previous ones from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018. I didn't have a lot of goals for this year:

Write to my blog instead of only to Twitter or other closed platforms.
Improve my explanations and write new ones.

The first I can measure by looking at whether I blogged about my projects. I did: 24 blog posts this year. I'm pretty happy with that. The second is harder to evaluate, but I would say I didn't spend nearly as much time on explanations as I had hoped to. I wrote these new explanations, but they were small:

And I worked on these two, but didn't get them to a point I was happy with:

Coordinate transforms - abandoned
A* Heuristics - incomplete

I spent some time improving existing explanations:

A* Implementation - clarified terminology: "location", "node", "state" can all be graph nodes
Distance to Any - improved layout
Making-of: drag handles - updated to work with touch screens
Differential heuristics - continued to work on it but still nowhere near complete
Terrain from Noise - island and wraparound map sections
Hexagon Guide - improved the map storage section, and improved the load time
2d Fourier Noise - refactored code, improved the terrain rendering

Instead of explanations, this year I was more inspired to work on art, learning, and other fun projects:

I also have 15 other projects that weren't for the general public (for clients, or responses to emails, etc.). I generated new logos for my social media presence using a new logo generator I wrote. And I updated my home page with links to lots of projects I hadn't previously linked. I track these projects on Trello.

What else? I'm hanging out on AIMA chat (students who want to contribute to the AIMA textbook open source project), Roguelike Discord, ProcJam Discord, a few Slacks, Twitter, and a few subreddits. I decided to go to non-GDC conferences this year, and went to BangBangCon, FDG, and Roguelike Celebration. I'm pretty happy with how all of this went this year.

For several years I've hoped that the coordinate systems page would become the next big successful project after the Hexagon page and the A* page. I've attempted to write it several times but just haven't been happy with it. I'm now starting to think that maybe it's not going to be the next big success for me. I've also been trying to come up with a good explanation of differential heuristics but can't seem to make much progress. Maybe I won't have any more big successes with tutorials, and should stop looking for that.

What are my goals for 2020? Unfortunately, I don't have any strong goals. After working on big projects in 2018, I ended up working on small projects in 2019. I would like to work on something bigger, but I think my focus will be on learning new things rather than explaining things I already know. I'd like to work on projects that last a month or two rather than a week or two, to really dig into them and learn a topic deeper than I can do in a week. Other than that, I feel kind of aimless right now. I'm ok with that. I'm in a wander-and-explore phase of my life.

Convergence Hobby Update - Speed Painting CoC

2020-02-25T07:39:00.001+08:00

One of the theories I had about owning a Convergence of Cyriss army is that it would be very easy to paint quickly.

I am not a particularly skilled painter, though I truly enjoy it when I have a fully painted list on the table. I paint to a standard that I can look at the model from 3 feet away and be happy with it. Not what the crazy painter friends I have are happy with, but what I'm happy with being on the table. This is important as a standard because painting is about time and I don't particularly have a lot of it.

A large part of my enjoyment comes from the idea that once I have a faction fully painted, I can just put it on the table and play and not have to think "damn I need to get to painting this."

So the theory about painting CoC is that you can prime the models with a metallic spray paint, add in a few colors, apply a wash, and then be done. Turns out this is actually true!

Since my last post about CoC spoke about how the bulk of the models I received were in really bad shape and I highlighted obnoxious the paint jobs were in addition to the fact that most everything was in pieces when it arrived, compare this to what the Monitor looked like before it was primed and painted:

That's quite a transformation! So how much effort was put into this from a painting perspective?

I based the model with sand/aquarium gravel.
I spray painted the model with some metallic spray paint, though I did test on the extra armless Axis model that was sent with my lot to make sure the primer wasn't going to be too thick.
I spent roughly 2 hours or so applying the colors and washes to the primed model.
I also had to repaint the base and basing material black instead of silver, which was odd but worth it for how much time the whole process saved me.

I didn't get any fancy primer either, just some Rust-olium at Home Depot:

I should put a few notes, since it was slightly jarring with this as a primer.

The model will look almost comically silver when primed. In fact it was left slightly sticky, despite drying for nearly 24 hours after being primed. In fact before I started I was afraid the entire project was going to be a failure and I'd have to just prime everything black like I always do.

Luckily the washes came through for me in the end. It's amazing what that did when combined with some gold and bronze paint on the model. Everything turned out about as I'd have expected it in the end, and I'm at a point where I think I can really hammer out my CoC army probably well ahead of my Trolls.

As a point of painting comparison, I spent about two hours painting that Monitor. I spent about an hour and a half just touching up the base painting on my first Longrider unit, and I still have to finish painting the metals on it before I can apply my wash and then go back and hit a highlight to get the skin on the trolls the way I want it.

Perhaps it's because I'm pushing the Trolls to be painted to a much higher standard than what I think the CoC should be, but man does it just feel nice to be able to knock out a model and have it come out looking good enough for me to be happy with. For my Trolls I feel like I need to put in all this extra work to get it to a point where I'm happy. I suppose that's the difference between having models of something organic like a beast or a infantry with lots of exposed flesh vs. robots. Here's an example of what I paint my Trolls to:

Right now I have to admit it's almost tempting to just try and get the CoC going. I did get lucky and have my wife agree to let me play in our local Scrum League (think a Steamroller with 1 game a week), and lists are due Friday. I was very likely playing Trolls in it, though after last night I admit that I've had some thoughts about playing CoC instead. I have two days to decide!

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2020-02-24T06:18:00.001+08:00

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The 11 Best New-To-Me Games Of 2019

2020-02-21T08:53:00.001+08:00

The 11 Best New-To-Me Games of 2019
Plus 18 honorable mentions (and 1 disappointment).
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Here we are at the end of another year. It's been a super busy year for me. My sons are getting older and involved in more and more extracurricular activities, meaning I have less and less time for games. I still managed to get in quite a few new games though. I played 70 new-to-me games this year, down from 95 last year and over 100 in previous years. This is a result of both less time spent playing games (unfortunately - my interest hasn't declined, just my free time) and the fact that every year I've already played more of the classics and modern gems that were new to me when my immersion into hobby gaming was much newer.

Of those 70 games, however, there have been some incredible standouts. I actually didn't have too much difficulty picking out a top 11 this year - there were very few games on that border for me, but it was difficult choosing the honorable mentions. I played a lot of really good games this year and though my favorites were easy to pick, almost everything else I played I really enjoyed. Except for one game in particular. It was a much hyped, new game for 2019 that I was super excited to play, but it fell very flat for me. If it wasn't such a popular title it wouldn't have made it anywhere near my list for 2019, but I felt obliged to include it in this year's overview to explain where I think it fell flat. Maybe you've guessed it already, but I'll list it after the honorable mentions.

As usual, this list only contains published games that I've played for the first time this year (although a couple I played previously in their prototype form). So, without further ado, here are my Top 11 New-To-Me Games for 2019, including 18 honorable mentions (and 1 Disappointment), so that's 29 excellent games for 2019!

Also, check out my lists for 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014 as well as The Best Kickstarter Previews & Prototype Games of 2019.

Honorable Mentions in Alphabetical Order:

5 Minute Dungeon (2017) - I'm not usually a fan of speed games, but I played 5 Minute Dungeon at my 24 Hour Gaming Marathon for Extra Life and had quite a bit of fun. I liked that it's cooperative, so even though it's a speed game your teammates can help make up for the slowness of newer players.

The Adventurers: The Pyramid of Horus (2011) - This was an interesting press-your-luck adventure game with a fun theme. I definitely wouldn't turn down a game of this.

A Feast for Odin (2016) - This is a favorite amongst several members of my game group. It's among the heavier games we played this year, and while I really did enjoy it, I felt it just crossed the line of being more complex than fun. There were so many choices that it was very hard to see and determine any kind of strategy, especially for a first time player. I'd gladly play again, but feel there are more elegant games that scratch the same itch without taking three hours.

Arboretum (2015) - This card game has some interesting bluffing and deduction elements combined with clever hand and tableau management. I really enjoyed the two player game I played, but when I played with four players we were so focused on not playing cards that would help opponents that the game became too take-that (and it's not supposed to be a take-that game) and scores were super low.

Cosmic Encounter (2008,1977) - This is a classic that I was happy to finally get a chance to play. Unfortunately it fell a bit short of my expectations. I think this is a love it or hate it type of game and my group prefers more logical strategy than social alliances and manipulation in games of this size and weight.

Evolution (2014) - Here's another modern classic that I finally had a chance to play this year. I quite enjoyed the aspects of building a species and want to try this again. I felt like there was quite a bit of luck, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing in a game about the evolution of lift.

Forbidden Sky (2018) - I only managed to get this to the table once this year and really want to try again now that I have a little more familiarity with the game, but have't managed to convince my game group to give it a shot yet. Out of the Forbidden series though, I liked this least and also found it the most challenging. Building the circuits and laying the tiles adds an additional level of complexity that I thought was maybe just a bit much, but I'm hoping to give it another try.

Gem Rush (2013) - Gem Rush felt like the name sounds. It was hectic and crazy and fun. It relied heavily on luck, but in a way that made the game light and energetic. There's not a whole lot of strategy, but there are plenty of choices, and the mechanic of digging through a deck to find gems was a lot of fun. I liked how sometimes you'd dig right past gems that an opponent needed and it was all publicly visible information. So the disappointment of not getting the gems you needed was tempered by the fact that you're blowing right past all the gems your opponent(s) needed!

Harbour w/High Tide expansion (2019) - Harbour is one of my favorite small box games. I really like the market mechanics. The High Tide expansion adds some fun new elements to the game, including the ships for hire and some interesting new buildings. You can read my review of the expansion here.

Kobayakawa (2013) - This is a game I had on my shelf for a few years before I finally sold it because I couldn't ever get it to the table. Then I had a chance to play it at Gen Con this summer and found it quite interesting. I really liked the way a simple collection of cards and a hand of one card is used for a very interesting bidding and bluffing mechanic.

La Viña (2019) - I picked up La Viña to review, so that'll be coming soon, but in the meantime I'll let you know that I enjoyed the game's theme and mechanics, however I felt there were a few bits that were unbalanced. I think a few minor tweaks to the game could make it more balanced, but there are other games (including one of my top games this year) that do similar things better.

Startups (2017) - I picked up Startups for just a few bucks in our Charity Auction Fundraiser to support Extra Life this November, so I haven't had a chance to play it much, but I enjoyed my first play. I think it'll be better with a few more players though (we played with 4). It was fast and pretty simple, but had some interesting interplay between players.

Steampunk Rally (2015) - I've been interested in Steampunk Rally since it first came out in 2015 and I finally had a chance to play it this year. I definitely enjoyed it, but it didn't quite live up to my expectations. I think the machines we built were a bit more abstract than I had hoped. There were interesting dice allocation mechanics though that I did enjoy.

Tesla vs Edison: War of Currents (2015) - I backed this on Kickstarter a long time ago and it had sat on my shelf until this year. I'm glad I finally got a chance to play. It's a solid stock manipulation game with a theme that I love. There seemed to be just a few minor balance issues, but I'd love to play again. I've heard the expansion brings the game up another notch, so I'd love to play with the expansion some time.

This Belongs in a Museum (2017) - The Drawn and Quartered series from Rather Dashing Games is one I love to introduce to new gamers. It's fast, fun, and pretty simple. This Belongs in a Museum is probably the most complex of the three games, but I found it enjoyable, even if we did have a few rules wrong for the first half of the game. I'll definitely be playing more of this one.

Twice as Clever (2019) - I had heard great things about That's So Clever and Twice as Clever, two newer roll and write games, so I picked up Twice as Clever at the beginning of the summer. I really like Qwixx and thought Twice as Clever would be a great roll and write game a step up in complexity from Qwixx. And it definitely is, maybe a bigger step up than I expected. I like it enough, but I'm not sure how you can play a game in the 30 minutes stated on the box. The games I played went much longer than 30 minutes. If it played quicker it probably would have made the top games list.

Unbroken (2018) - This may be the most controversial game on this list. Not because it's a bad game, quite the contrary, but because of the way its Kickstarter campaign has been handled and the things that were uncovered as a result of this game's popularity. Unbroken is a pretty good solo game about delving through a dungeon, having encounters, fighting monsters, and leveling up your character. Mechanically and thematically I think the game is incredible. I've felt it relies a little too much on luck in some cases, but for a pretty fast, solo dungeon crawl, it works very well. Unfortunately it's connection to Golden Bell Studios has severely tainted its reputation in the board game world. If you are one of the lucky few who have actually received their Kickstarter pledge, however, don't toss this one aside because of a shady company. Give it a few plays and experience a pretty fun game!

Villagers (2019) - I played this once and enjoyed it, though it seemed like it had a limited amount of strategic variety and relied pretty heavily on getting the right cards at the right time. I've heard that there's an expansion coming out to add a bit more variety and strategic choices, so I'd love to play it again with the expansion someday.

One Disappointment

Tapestry (2019) - I wasn't going to mention Tapestry at first, but it was such a hyped up game this year that I felt obliged to mention why it didn't make my top games list, or even my honorable mentions list, even though it seems like it would be right up my alley. First, let me preface this by saying that Tapestry is a good game and there are some out there that love it, but for me it fell way short of what I wanted and expected from it, so much so that I have no intention of playing it again.

I love civilization themed games, euro games, and thematic games, and Tapestry purports to be all of those with beautiful, overproduced components. I love Scythe (it's still one of my favorite games) and I was really looking forward to a civilization game from Stonemaier Games. Then I had the opportunity to play Tapestry and was incredibly disappointed.

Let me talk first about the things that I did like. It really is a gorgeous game, mostly. The pre-painted miniatures are beautiful, the component quality is wonderful, and the artwork is, for the most part, great. I also love the idea behind this game. Building a civilization from antiquity to the near future is a theme I really love. Combine that with some area control and exploration mechanics on a central map shared by everyone and I thought this was going to be a game that I would love.

Unfortunately the rest of the game disappointed me immensely. Art on some of the components was great, but the board art and graphic design were very lackluster. I found the theme to be very superficial (why is it possible to develop time travel or radio before a granary or nails?) and the civilizations to be unbalanced. The mechanics of the game worked well, but the random bits felt unbalanced and everything felt disconnected with the theme and experience that I had expected. In the one game I played I got dealt a lousy starting combination of cards and civilizations, as did one other player, and we were never able to dig ourselves out of the hole we started in. One player started with a great combination of cards and no one could even come close to catching him. I don't think it's the way we played (this was the first time playing for everyone), since no one could see any obvious mistakes (in rules or strategy), it was just an uphill battle the whole way. I don't mind getting trounced in a game (I've only won Scythe twice in all my plays), but I like to feel like I have a chance and I never felt like I was in the game from the very first turn of Tapestry. I don't feel like if I played again that I'd be able to do something better, other than hope for better card combinations, better dice rolls, and just better luck overall. Bad luck in Tapestry seems to have a snowball effect with little to be done to mitigate it.

Then there was the asymmetrical game end. I'm not wild about games where the end for one player can come significantly before the end for other players. This happens in player elimination games, like Risk, where it's expected, but Tapestry isn't a player elimination game. In Tapestry, one player can finish their game quite a while before other players. This is essentially the same as player elimination, but not due to combat or even poor strategy due to the luck factors mentioned above. In the game I played, I was finished more than 20 minutes before the game officially wrapped up. I ended up leaving the game night to get home and then found out that the game went on for another 25 minutes or so after I left, ending with two players with more than 100 points more than me. I have a problem with the asymmetrical ending in Everdell, too, but it made my top list anyway because of awesome gameplay and a great, thematic experience, things Tapestry lacked.

Maybe a future expansion will address some of these issues - I've seen plenty of other people raise similar concerns. I'm not sure even an expansion will make me want to play again though. There was too much I felt was missing from the game that it would have to be a completely new game to overcome those faults. I had such high hopes for Tapestry, but I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for my next civilization game fix.

And Now for the Top 11 New-To-Me Games of 2019

* Indicates I played first as a prototype and then a completed, published version in 2018.

11. Everdell (2018) - Starling Games - Like Tapestry, I wasn't thrilled with the asymmetrical endings in Everdell. However, the rest of the game was great, and working your engine so that you can keep playing long after others have run out of things to do is oddly satisfying. I felt bad for the other players, but didn't want to stop my engine before it was ready to quit! I really enjoy the combination of worker placement and resource management with tableau and engine building. There is a bit of luck, but there are so many strategic choices that you have plenty of ways to mitigate the card you want not coming up. On top of that, the artwork and theme are wonderful. That three dimensional tree construct may be a bit gimmicky, but it makes for incredible table presence and the rest of the components are really top notch, especially those in the collector's edition. I'm glad I got to play this a few times this year, even if it does run a bit longer than expected sometimes.

10. Ubongo! Fun-Size Edition (2018) - Kosmos - I won Ubongo! Fun-Size Edition in a giveaway earlier this year and figured I'd give it a try. It looked simple and fast to play, so I played my wife when we had a few minutes. I was pleasantly surprised by the game and it's become a favorite to bring out on camping trips or when I need a fast filler game. It's not for everyone since it's heavily reliant on spatial puzzles, but my family really likes it. I understand it's a little different from standard Ubongo, but I like its simplicity.

9. Sunset Over Water (2018) - Pencil First Games - I have to admit, at the time of writing this I've only had a chance to play this as a two player game, but I quite liked it. The theme and artwork are wonderful and the gameplay is fast and simple, but, as my wife put it, also very frustrating (but in a great way). Each turn is a puzzle of trying to maximize your ability to collect the paintings you need, but also to do that before other players get what you want or need. The game can be a little swingy, but there are plenty of options and ways to mitigate that sometimes. It's fast enough to squeeze into just a few minutes (20-30 minutes) and has enough puzzle and strategy to make it feel like you've accomplished something in that time. Kudos to Steve Finn for knocking out another excellent filler!

8. Heroes Welcome (2019) - Monkey Jump Games/Pencil First Games - Here's another game in my review queue that you'll be seeing on my site soon. This is a worker placement game with a couple of unique twists. Mechanically, it's worker placement, however everyone controls the same worker! Thematically, it's a great twist on a traditional dungeon crawler. I've seen tons of games where you are the hero fighting monsters to collect treasure, quite a few where you're monsters fighting off the heroes, and even a few where you're the heroes bragging about your adventures. But in Heroes Welcome you are the merchants in the town, buying and trading for the treasures the heroes bring back from their adventures, selling them new supplies, and crafting magical weapons that you'll supply the dungeon dwelling monsters with! Yup, you're working both sides of the war. The only problem I had with the game was at the very end. After the last item is crafted for the boss monster there's very little you can do to gain any more points, even though you may still have a couple of actions left. This makes the last round or two of turns a little anti-climactic. It's a very fun game though, so I'm willing to forgive this slight hiccup at the end.

7. SHŌBU (2019) - Smirk & Laughter Games - SHŌBU is a game in my review queue, so I won't go into a whole lot of detail here, but suffice to say it's a wonderful two-player abstract strategy game. It's brand new, but has the feel of a game that's been around for a thousand years. The wood, rope, and stone components are perfect for that ancient aesthetic. This is another game that I love to keep in my game bag for when I need a quick two-player game, although, like most two player abstract strategy games, the length of the game really depends on the comparative strategic skill of the players. Most of my games have been 15-20 minutes, but I had one that went almost 40 minutes!

6. Reef (2018) - Next Move - Reef is an incredible game! It's fast, simple, and elegant. You can teach it in about 5 minutes, even to newbie gamers. Turns are fast and simple, with only two options, but the strategy is pretty deep. There's not a whole lot of player interaction beyond drafting the cards, but, like Azul or Sagrada, the joy comes from using the big, chunky pieces to solve your own, personal puzzles. This is a game I don't see myself ever getting tired of!

5. Rurik: Dawn of Kiev * (2019) - Piecekeeper Games - This is the first of two games on my list designed by Stan Kordonskiy. I was part of the playtest team for Rurik, although I only got a handful of plays in. The game was pretty solid the first time I played, but went through some balancing and minor mechanical changes over the year from when I first played until its current iteration and over that time every single minor issue I had with the game was resolved and turned a good game into a great game. Add to that incredible art and wonderful components and now you have an incredible game. The auction programming mechanic is very unique and adds a lot of player interaction. The miniatures are gorgeous even though this isn't really a minis game (they're more like the minis in Scythe or Hyperborea where they're more for thematic immersion than essential to the gameplay). So, while Rurik looks like a dudes-on-a-map game, it's really an intriguing euro.

4. Lockup: A Roll Player Tale * (2019) - Thunderworks Games - Lockup is another game designed by Stan Kordonskiy, the second on this list and two on my Top Prototypes of 2019 list (including an expansion for Lockup). The man is on fire! When I first played a prototype of Lockup last year I was only mildly impressed. It was good, but my reaction was just meh. Then I found out we had a couple of rules just a bit off. This summer I had the opportunity to demo the game at Gen Con and it really grew on me. I love the combination of worker placement with bluffing, deduction, and area control. As I've played both this and Rurik I've realized that they both have some similarities in how worker placement and area control are used to determine rewards for players, but both games area also very different and play great.

3. Crypt (2018) - Road to Infamy Games - I first played Crypt in January and it quickly jumped to the top of my favorite games list. For a long time I thought it would stay at the top of my new-to-me list for 2019 since nothing else I played saw as much table time as Crypt. I love how simple the game is, yet how much player interaction there is. The mechanic for exerting workers is so simple it's genius. I've played Crypt with both gamers and non-gamers and everyone both gets it quickly and loves it. This is one I don't think I'll ever get tired of playing!

2. Parks (2019) - Keymaster Games - I included La Viña in my honorable mentions, and said I had another game on the list that used a similar mechanic better. Parks is that game. Both games have a path that you can move your pieces along as far as you like, but not backward, completing an action based on where you stop and a different action when your pieces reach the end of the path. La Viña had a few balance issues, but Parks plays wonderfully. I think Parks is a tiny bit more complex than La Viña, but it's still a relatively simple game, mechanically. There is a depth to Parks though, that La Viña lacks. On top of the wonderful gameplay, Parks has absolutely stunning artwork. Showcased is artwork featuring scenery from each of the United States National Parks. Both of my parents were teachers, so we spent summers traveling about the country when I was a kid. I love looking through all the beautiful artwork, remembering when I was at many of the locations. I get nostalgic for those days and hope that someday I can show my own kids even some of the stuff I saw as a kid. On top of great gameplay, and incredible artwork, the component quality in Parks is amazing. From the perfectly designed Game Trayz to hold everything snug, to the gorgeous metal first player token, to the wooden resources with twelve unique wild animal pieces, this game looks amazing on the table. The price is a tiny bit on the high end for the type of game, but the components are definitely worth the premium price.

1. Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale (2019) - Thunderworks Games - I can't express just how much I have fallen in love with Cartographers. It's an absolutely incredible game that I love, love, love! For years now, Scythe has been my favorite game of all. There are games that I temporarily enjoy more than Scythe, but I kept coming back to Scythe as my all time favorite. I think Cartographers has changed that though. I can't see myself ever getting tired of the game. Even though I'm not playing it as often as I did the first few weeks after I first played it, it's still with me at every game night and a game that I'll pull out any chance I get. I'd be happy playing it over and over, but I'm trying to pace myself and make sure to get other games some table time, too. So what do I love about the game so much? How about a bullet list:

It plays quickly - about 30 minutes, maybe an hour or so for new players.
It's easy to teach - I taught a family how to play a few weeks ago and their previous gaming experience was with Uno and Life. They loved Cartographers!
It's tactile - drawing your own maps with your own pencils feels great. I blinged out my copy with enough colored pencils for up to 12 players.
It's puzzly - figuring out how to fit the different terrains into your map to score the most points is sometimes a head scratcher, especially toward the end of the game.
Everyone plays simultaneously - it doesn't matter how many players you have, the game plays the same with 2 or 200 players and doesn't even take any more time!
Player interaction - there's just enough player interaction with the minion attacks that you don't feel like you're just playing a multiplayer solo game.
Solo mode - the solo mode plays great, almost exactly like a multiplayer game.
Souvenirs - the maps you create at the end of your game make fun souvenirs of your game. They're fun little works of art and a reminder of the great land you helped survey.

I could go on and on about all the awesomeness that is Cartographers, but I do have to get this list posted someday. Besides, the longer I take to write this up, the longer it'll be before I can play Cartographers again!

P.S. Here's a bit of Cartographers trivia. In an earlier draft of the cover art there was an elf ranger standing where the fire is now. So maybe that's not a campfire, but a smoking blaster crater (R.I.P. elf ranger). A bit of sci-fi in this fantasy world?!

Well, that's it for 2019! I may not have played as many games this year as in the past, but man, there were some great ones! I have a number of games that I know are great on my shelf of shame, like Terraforming Mars, The Manhattan Project, TMP: Energy Empire, Castles of Burgundy, Agricola, and more. I got a few of my shelf of shame games to the table this year and I hope in 2020 I can manage to knock a few more out. It's hard to do with so many awesome games coming out every year, limited time to play, and my own designs that I'm working on. Here's to another great year of games in 2020 though!

Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Are there any games you can't believe I put where they are? I want to hear!

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GJJG Game Reviews are independent, unpaid reviews of games I, George Jaros, have played with my family and friends. Some of these games I own, some are owned by friends, some are borrowed, and some are print and play versions of games. Where applicable I will indicate if games have been played with kids or adults or a mix (Family Play). I won't go into extensive detail about how to play the game (there are plenty of other sources for that information and I'll occasionally link to those other sources), but I will give my impressions of the game and how my friends and family reacted to the game. Quick Reviews will only get a single rating of 1-10 (low-high) based on my first impressions of the game during my first few times playing. Hopefully I'll get more chances to play the game and will be able to give it a full review soon.

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10 Brazilian Videogames To Start 2020 In An Epic Way

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I don't like to make lists but this one is a special exception. I created a list with 10 Brazilian games that I loved a lot to play in last years. As a Brazilian guy, nothing fairer than talking a little bit about the games created in my country. You can find any of them easily in Steam or the mainstream consoles. I tried to put a small description of each one with a trailer. You can search on Google to know more about them.

1.Horizon Chase Turbo (Aquiris)

Horizon Chase Turbo is a modern take on the 90s old-school racers that we loved the most such as Out Run or Top Gear. It's the first game in analogic Blu-ray launched in Brazilian Territory. Platforms: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Xbox One

2.Chroma Squad (Behold Studios)

Chroma Squad is a tactical role-playing video game influenced by tokusatsu TV shows, particularly the Super Sentai and Power Rangers franchises. Platforms: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh operating systems, macOS.

3.Celeste (MiniBoss)

Celeste is platform game in which players control a girl named Madeline in a beautiful, challenging and metaphorical struggle against anxiety and depression (I really love this one). Platforms: Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

4.Rainy Day (Thais Weiller & Amora B.)

A short and reflective experience about depression on a rainy day. A game to be played right in your browser. Click here. Platform: Internet browsers.

5.Shiny (Garage 227)

Awesome art, robots and puzzles. I'll not say anything more, but Shiny was one of the most immersive experiences I had with a game in the last years. Check the trailer below and try to play. Platforms: PC, Xbox One and PS4.

6.Blazing Chrome (JoyMasher)

Blazing Chrome is a classic co-op run 'n gun with an original arcade feel. Players can choose between Mavra, the badass human resistance, soldier or Doyle, the groovy rebel robot, to kick some metal ass. Are you a Contra lover? You'll love this game. Platforms: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows

7.Aritana and the Twin Masks (DUAIK)

second adventure of a universe that explores even more the forest's mysteries, based in the brazilian mythology and culture. With a new weapon, a bow and arrow, the adventure extends gameplay possibilities, bringing 3D movement, big sceneries in open landscapes to explore and powers that helps the player solve several puzzles. Explore a huge lost temple and find artifacts that can be mixed in many special potions and prepare yourself to save the tree of life. Platforms: Xbox One.

8.Sky Racket (Double Dash Studios)

Sky Racket is a mixture of the casual fun from Block Breakers and the awesome action from Shoot 'Em Ups, which makes it the first Shmup Breaker. Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, IBM PC compatible.

9.Tamashii (Vikintor)

Tamashii it's a platform game that generates a sense of strangeness for its gameplay and layout. I can't express in words why I liked this game so much. I think it was his strangeness that made me find an experience interesting. The dark ambience soundtrack with the lovecraftian/gigerian creatures/scenarios are the high points of the game for me. About the developer: Vikintor is a Brazilian independent artist and game creator; his work it's mostly about Metaphysical punk, Transgressive Gnosticism and Philosophically subversive themes. Making small and medium-size games with the proposal to conceive experimental interactive medium of expression (text from author's site). Platform: Microsoft Windows.

10.Lenin - The Lion (Lornyon)

Lenin is an albino lion, the only one of his kind, and because of that he feels insecure and constantly discouraged. In fact. Worse, his mother does not understand why his son was born this way, and the whole village despises him and treats him cruelly. At school, he suffers bullying and can't concentrate on class. Now, hopeless about life, certain situations seem to awaken in Lenin something that is not of everyone's reality, but only of his. Something he will discover to be the part of something else. Platform: Microsoft Windows.

Bonus Stage: Mind Alone (Sioux)

Time for self-promotion! MIND ALONE is an experimental mobile game that uses puzzle mechanics to create a dark narrative about somebody trapped in their own mind. Each puzzle is a memory and the player needs to solve them to find hints about how it happened. I created this game in a partnership with Sioux, a Brazilian gaming publisher. Platforms: iOS and Android.

Hope you enjoy and happy new year.

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Frictional Fan Jam 2019

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Screenshot courtesy of Newsman Waterpaper and their mod The Streets of London.

#FrictionalFanJam

September is a meaningful month for Frictional Games, as it marks several of our anniversaries. This year on the 8th of September Amnesia: The Dark Descent will be turning 9, on 10th Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs will be 6 years old, and on 22nd SOMA will have been released for 4 years.

Therefore we would like to make this month special by celebrating your community creations. Please join us for Frictional's Fan Jam of 2019!

We have recently launched an official Discord server, so you are welcome to ask questions, share ideas, and chat with other participants in the #fan_jam channel.

Overview

The goal is to create a new fan work related to one of Frictional's games: SOMA, Amnesia games and the Penumbra series, or older titles such as Unbirth. You are free to create any transformative work: a mod, fanart and fanfiction, cosplay, or something different like a video or a plushie. The project should be at least loosely related to the given theme.

Since some projects (for example mods) can require more effort than others, you are also welcome to participate in teams.

Please see submission guidelines below!

Theme

Autumn/Decay

Deadline

The event kicks off on Friday the 6th of September. The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on Sunday the 22nd of September. The jury will be going through submissions starting Monday the 23rd.

Prizes

The jury of Frictional Games employees and Frictional Games Discord moderation team will pick the winners of the jam. Jury members can participate in the event, but are disqualified from winning.

The winners will receive a poster of a game of their choosing, signed by the Frictional team members, sent to their home address (teams can decide on one address, max 4 prizes per team). The Frictional Team will also be featuring the works on a video with comments from Thomas and other employees. And finally - upon release of the next game, the winners will receive download codes for the game on an available platform of their choosing.

Contact

The jam is organised by Frictional Game's community manager Kira together with the moderation team of the official Discord server, proposed and drafted by Draugemalf. The easiest way to contact the organisers is on the Frictional Games Discord server's #fan_jam channel. The channel can also be used to share ideas with other community members, get feedback and look for team members.

If you don't have a Discord account, you are also welcome to contact Frictional Games through Twitter or our Contact Form, and we will help you as soon as we can.

Submission guidelines

The works must be related to one or more of Frictional's games (SOMA, Amnesia: TDD, Amnesia: AMFP, Penumbra, and Unbirth, Fiend, Energetic)
The works must be at least loosely related to the the thematic of Autumn/Decay
The creation must be submitted on 22nd of September the latest
The work must be your or your team's original creation
For mods you are free to use assets you can legally use, or have the permission to use from the creators

Submitting your work

You can submit your works through several channels, either by posting an image (for fanart, cosplay and similar) and/or a link (mods, fanfiction and similar).

On Discord, you can share the project on the #fan_jam channel. Please make it clear that it's your final version.
On Twitter and Tumblr, you should mention @frictionalgames and tag the submission with #FrictionalFanJam.
If you don't have a social media account, please send your submission to team@frictionalgames.com with the title "Frictional Fan Jam".
Due to Instagram and Facebook's limited searching and tagging tools, we will not be accepting submissions through those platforms.
All submissions will be posted by the jury on Discord's #fan_jam_showcase channel for easier judging.

And that's it! Go get creative! We're looking forward to all your great projects!

If you have any questions, just let us know.

Brave Browser the Best privacy-focused product of 2020

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Out of all the privacy-focused products and apps available on the market, Brave has been voted the best. Other winners of Product Hunt's Golden Kitty awards showed that there was a huge interest in privacy-enhancing products and apps such as chats, maps, and other collaboration tools.

An extremely productive year for Brave

Last year has been a pivotal one for the crypto industry, but few companies managed to see the kind of success Brave did. Almost every day of the year has been packed witch action, as the company managed to officially launch its browser, get its Basic Attention Token out, and onboard hundreds of thousands of verified publishers on its rewards platform.

Luckily, the effort Brave has been putting into its product hasn't gone unnoticed.

The company's revolutionary browser has been voted the best privacy-focused product of 2019, for which it received a Golden Kitty award. The awards, hosted by Product Hunt, were given to the most popular products across 23 different product categories.

Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt said:

"Our annual Golden Kitty awards celebrate all the great products that makers have launched throughout the year"

Brave's win is important for the company—with this year seeing the most user votes ever, it's a clear indicator of the browser's rapidly rising popularity.

Privacy and blockchain are the strongest forces in tech right now

If reaching 10 million monthly active users in December was Brave's crown achievement, then the Product Hunt award was the cherry on top.

The recognition Brave got from Product Hunt users shows that a market for privacy-focused apps is thriving. All of the apps and products that got a Golden Kitty award from Product Hunt users focused heavily on data protection. Everything from automatic investment apps and remote collaboration tools to smart home products emphasized their privacy.

AI and machine learning rose as another note-worthy trend, but blockchain seemed to be the most dominating force in app development. Blockchain-based messaging apps and maps were hugely popular with Product Hunt users, who seem to value innovation and security.

For those users, Brave is a perfect platform. The company's research and development team has recently debuted its privacy-preserving distributed VPN, which could potentially bring even more security to the user than its already existing Tor extension.

Brave's effort to revolutionize the advertising industry has also been recognized by some of the biggest names in publishing—major publications such as The Washington Post, The Guardian, NDTV, NPR, and Qz have all joined the platform. Some of the highest-ranking websites in the world, including Wikipedia, WikiHow, Vimeo, Internet Archive, and DuckDuckGo, are also among Brave's 390,000 verified publishers.

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