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A New 6 Degrees; Knizia Games
Aug. 24th, 2006 10:59 amToday I released on Gone Gaming a revision of my favorite article, "Six Degrees of Bruno Faidutti". It's here:
http://boredgamegeeks.blogspot.com/2006/08/six-degrees-second-edition.html
This is the article that showed a massive chart of game designer collaborations as a linked network. The network is a lot bigger now. I suspect there's something like 30-40 new people on it, though I haven't actually counted and compared.
I had a fine night of gaming at EndGame last night. I played three different Knizia games, and who can complain about that?
Blue Moon City was my first game of the evening, and also my first play of the game. It's a fine, fine resource-management game. Not as heavy as some of his earlier stuff, but still quite good. I was cursing myself over bad decisions and chances that didn't pay out by the end of the game, and quite enjoying it.
Beowulf was up second. Ironically I think it's Knizia's previous great gamer's game before Blue Moon City. We had a rollicking good time. Several of the players were absolutely terrified of wounds. Oddly, I was the one who came out of the game unwounded (a huge rarity due to my usual love of risk). I thought the game had come down to whether Sam or I managed to win the dragon battle, but I was wrong; he would have won anyways. (He won by 16 points or so, while the dragon battle just offers a 10-point swing between first and second.)
Res Publica was up last. Definitely the least exciting of the three, but still quite enjoyable. It was the only game I won (or, actually, tied). I had monuments worth 9/7/5, cities worth 3/3, and pairs worth 1/1/1 while one of my opponents had 8/7/6/3/3/1/1/1. Now that's close!
I spent much of the midgame utterly hampered by my inability to get a second city. I knew Matt, to my left, was hording 3 Romans while I had the remaining 4. By all rights he should have given me the last Roman but refused. Finally, after a few turns when we each became pretty sure what the other person had, I told him that I wanted 5 cards, and he correctly responded with a request for 2 Romans. After that massive influx of cards to my hand I was able to get my own collection of 5 peoples on the next turn or two. Whew.
http://boredgamegeeks.blogspot.com/2006/08/six-degrees-second-edition.html
This is the article that showed a massive chart of game designer collaborations as a linked network. The network is a lot bigger now. I suspect there's something like 30-40 new people on it, though I haven't actually counted and compared.
I had a fine night of gaming at EndGame last night. I played three different Knizia games, and who can complain about that?
Blue Moon City was my first game of the evening, and also my first play of the game. It's a fine, fine resource-management game. Not as heavy as some of his earlier stuff, but still quite good. I was cursing myself over bad decisions and chances that didn't pay out by the end of the game, and quite enjoying it.
Beowulf was up second. Ironically I think it's Knizia's previous great gamer's game before Blue Moon City. We had a rollicking good time. Several of the players were absolutely terrified of wounds. Oddly, I was the one who came out of the game unwounded (a huge rarity due to my usual love of risk). I thought the game had come down to whether Sam or I managed to win the dragon battle, but I was wrong; he would have won anyways. (He won by 16 points or so, while the dragon battle just offers a 10-point swing between first and second.)
Res Publica was up last. Definitely the least exciting of the three, but still quite enjoyable. It was the only game I won (or, actually, tied). I had monuments worth 9/7/5, cities worth 3/3, and pairs worth 1/1/1 while one of my opponents had 8/7/6/3/3/1/1/1. Now that's close!
I spent much of the midgame utterly hampered by my inability to get a second city. I knew Matt, to my left, was hording 3 Romans while I had the remaining 4. By all rights he should have given me the last Roman but refused. Finally, after a few turns when we each became pretty sure what the other person had, I told him that I wanted 5 cards, and he correctly responded with a request for 2 Romans. After that massive influx of cards to my hand I was able to get my own collection of 5 peoples on the next turn or two. Whew.