Cartographers and Popular Roll & Writes (ft. Jay Cormier)
Today we discuss bevy of Roll & Writes with Jay Cormier founder of Off The Page Games and designer of games like Akotiri, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Junk Art and many more! In the episode we talk about all things surrounding Roll & Writes, but we focus specifically on That’s So Clever, Patchwork Doodle, Cartographers, Welcome To and Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers. We cap the episode off by breaking down the history of the genre and what innovations influenced its modern day implementation.
Townsfolk Tussle
This week we have a doozy for yah! Jan’s out of commission, but the show must go on! Alex from BoardGameCo joins us to talk about Townsfolk Tussle, a new take on the Kingdom Death formula! Townsfolk Tussle is a co-op boss battler for 2-5 players where you’ll be using your context to your advantage and improvising with the weapons your enemy will drop.
Feudum
Feudum, by Oddbird Games, is an economic sandbox euro of hand and resource management for 2-5 players. Your goal is to take advantage of your position within 5 guilds at the most opportune time to be victorious by game end. Unless, of course, you starve, get sidetracked by sea serpents or develop an unhealthy interest in fermented grapes. Sound familiar?
Project Elite
“We’ve got the buggers coming in all directions. We need support and we need it now! Artemis, you take care of our flank; Bob, you take the lead and Jesse watch my back.” 5 Minutes Later “Where the hell is Jesse, we’re overrun!!?” says the sergeant as he looks back and catches Anderson stuck in place. Jesse screams: “I just couldn’t roll feet, sarge…I just couldn’t roll!” In today’s episode, we talk about Project Elite by CMON and Artipia Games, a real-time Ameritrash dice and miniatures game where the goal is to push the hordes of aliens back long enough to complete your objective before being overrun.