Oh, if you want to play Zendo at PAX, bring it. I packed it, but then unpacked it upon realization of what a giant pain in the arse it was going to be to have that in my luggage on the flight. ;^)
Asmadi Games will be at PAX again. They have a new card game called Flowerfall that sounds very unique, with a high chance of being awful, but it's at least got my attention. It's basically an area control game played out by dropping cards.
Let me explain. You take a deck of cards and start dropping cards onto the table from about eye-level. When the cards land and touch each other, they form a field. Cards also have flower symbols on them (each player scores the flower symbols of a certain color). If you have the most flowers in that field, you score points. There are also barrier symbols on the cards that can break the game up into numerous fields.
I'd like to play this once just to say I have, but I have serious doubts that you can skillfully control the fall of a playing card. It's just meant to be a silly game like We Didn't Playtest This At All, or Win Lose Banana. Apparently people at Origins were playing it where you had to ride an escalator up and drop your card off the side.
We are heading up in a few hours. Here is the final list of games we are bringing to the yard:
7 Wonders with Leaders expansion Dominion: all expansions, all promos Quarriors: all expansions Ascension: all expansions Marrakech Takenoko Kingsburg with expansion Cards Against Humanity withe expansion Infinite City Small Wolrd Underground with Realms Citadels Burrows Bohnanza Gubs Shadow Hunters Battle Line Timeline Bananagrams
I should have gotten a medal for the person who wins the most games.
I wonder if they have/make extra medals for the tournaments/what one would have to do to get one. Constantine has one for Small World and one for Settlers, and they're pretty high quality.
Chris Lamb @chrislamb Enjoyed most of my time at PAX DEV, but wow, that was about as diverse as a Klan meeting.
I don't know the tweeter, it just came up in my PAX search. Wonder if ScRym will have something to say about that.
Honestly, that sounds like the sort of guy who is just dying to have something to bitch about. Did PAX Dev put up a giant sign that side "white dudes only?" I'm willing to bet they did not.
It's one thing to have a well-thought-out discussion that looks at potential reasons why people of other sexes and/or races wouldn't pursue a certain career path or attend a certain event. It's another to sit on twitter and cry about being a white male.
I doubt Rym and Scott would have anything to say about that. They are probably actually enjoying PAX Dev and not spending their time doing a census on the crowd.
Oooh, I'm so stunned that attending an industry conference for an industry predominantly staffed by dudes, and of them mostly white dudes, was full of white dudes. Better make my incredibly manufactured shock well known to everyone!
Oooh, I'm so stunned that attending an industry conference for an industry predominantly staffed by dudes, and of them mostly white dudes, was full of white dudes. Better make my incredibly manufactured shock well known to everyone!
You Fucking Pillock.
I don't know what he was expecting. Devs now were kids who grew up playing games when games were a geek thing and geekery was a white dude thing. Those things are less true than ever now, but the industry hasn't had a chance to catch up to the expanded demographic. Give it a decade and that shit will sort itself out.
Oooh, I'm so stunned that attending an industry conference for an industry predominantly staffed by dudes, and of them mostly white dudes, was full of white dudes. Better make my incredibly manufactured shock well known to everyone!
You Fucking Pillock.
I don't know what he was expecting. Devs now were kids who grew up playing games when games were a geek thing and geekery was a white dude thing. Those things are less true than ever now, but the industry hasn't had a chance to catch up to the expanded demographic. Give it a decade and that shit will sort itself out.
Exactly - large things, like the games industry, are rather like large physical objects. They have inertia, they take time and effort to move to a different place. We've put in a lot of effort, and we've yet more to put in. All it's going to take now is time.
I dunno, I'm always massively offended that there aren't more lesbians in attendance at these industry conferences. I've tweeted about it, but for some reason it's been completely ineffectual.
I dunno, I'm always massively offended that there aren't more lesbians in attendance at these industry conferences. I've tweeted about it, but for some reason it's been completely ineffectual.
Obviously everyone is welcome. PAX Dev did not sell out. There is some greater reason that they choose not to show up, and it is in no way the fault of PAX.
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I'm so happy we have hotel reservations for Thursday night. My Filipino Parkour kuya will be there on Thursday evening as well.
He's the one who coined the term "Inverse Wizard Hat".
Notice what she has on her coffee table.
Let me explain. You take a deck of cards and start dropping cards onto the table from about eye-level. When the cards land and touch each other, they form a field. Cards also have flower symbols on them (each player scores the flower symbols of a certain color). If you have the most flowers in that field, you score points. There are also barrier symbols on the cards that can break the game up into numerous fields.
I'd like to play this once just to say I have, but I have serious doubts that you can skillfully control the fall of a playing card. It's just meant to be a silly game like We Didn't Playtest This At All, or Win Lose Banana. Apparently people at Origins were playing it where you had to ride an escalator up and drop your card off the side.
His other games, Innovation and Fealty, are cool, so hopefully this one will be too.
7 Wonders with Leaders expansion
Dominion: all expansions, all promos
Quarriors: all expansions
Ascension: all expansions
Marrakech
Takenoko
Kingsburg with expansion
Cards Against Humanity withe expansion
Infinite City
Small Wolrd Underground with Realms
Citadels
Burrows
Bohnanza
Gubs
Shadow Hunters
Battle Line
Timeline
Bananagrams
I should have gotten a medal for the person who wins the most games.
Chris Lamb @chrislamb
Enjoyed most of my time at PAX DEV, but wow, that was about as diverse as a Klan meeting.
I don't know the tweeter, it just came up in my PAX search. Wonder if ScRym will have something to say about that.
It's one thing to have a well-thought-out discussion that looks at potential reasons why people of other sexes and/or races wouldn't pursue a certain career path or attend a certain event. It's another to sit on twitter and cry about being a white male.
I doubt Rym and Scott would have anything to say about that. They are probably actually enjoying PAX Dev and not spending their time doing a census on the crowd.
You Fucking Pillock.
I'm going to http://www.djangocon.us/ after PAX. Willing to bet it will be mostly white dudes.