Games Club, from Friday
Jun. 7th, 2004 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avramOh yeah, there was Games Club on Friday. Um, what’d we play? Oh yeah....
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mnemex was explaining how to play Power Grid, and I stepped in for kent_allard_jr, who didn’t feel like playing. Did really badly. It’s got some very clever mechanical bits, but it’s excessively thinky — it rewards spending lots of time figuring out exactly how your next several game actions are going to go so you can optimize your current one. Probably worth taking a look at if you’re a game design geek.
We also played Money, a very simple currency trading game with cover art that makes it look much zanier than it actually is. The scoring is a bit complicated, but once you get how it works, the game play is pretty simple. I feared that the auctions would take forever, but they mostly went pretty quickly. You’ve got a bunch of money cards in different currencies (two more currencies than the number of players); you’re trying to specialize. Each round you engage in successive auctions, bidding money to get money. The winner of each auction gets to swap the cards he was bidding for either one of the two sheaves of four cards dealt off the deck, or for someone else’s bid. When the deck runs out, the round is over and you score.
And we played San Juan. I managed to build three bonus buildings for the first time (Guild Hall, City Hall, and Palace), for 45 points, which may be my highest score.
I came in as
mnemex was explaining how to play Power Grid, and I stepped in for kent_allard_jr, who didn’t feel like playing. Did really badly. It’s got some very clever mechanical bits, but it’s excessively thinky — it rewards spending lots of time figuring out exactly how your next several game actions are going to go so you can optimize your current one. Probably worth taking a look at if you’re a game design geek. We also played Money, a very simple currency trading game with cover art that makes it look much zanier than it actually is. The scoring is a bit complicated, but once you get how it works, the game play is pretty simple. I feared that the auctions would take forever, but they mostly went pretty quickly. You’ve got a bunch of money cards in different currencies (two more currencies than the number of players); you’re trying to specialize. Each round you engage in successive auctions, bidding money to get money. The winner of each auction gets to swap the cards he was bidding for either one of the two sheaves of four cards dealt off the deck, or for someone else’s bid. When the deck runs out, the round is over and you score.
And we played San Juan. I managed to build three bonus buildings for the first time (Guild Hall, City Hall, and Palace), for 45 points, which may be my highest score.