Reviews & Previews of Indie and Kickstarted Games
When Fairway was a kid, he lived at a place with a great big woods in the backyard. There were plenty of places to build what he thought would be the Best Tree House Ever. It turns out that’s actually a really hard thing to do. Well, as luck would have it, Scott Almes and Green Couch Games have made it a lot easier. Today, Fairway reviews a Kickstarted game: Best Tree House Ever.
In episode 47, we go dinosaur wrangling in Dino Dude Ranch! A family friendly 2-5 player game that is really easy to learn, and really fun to play.
In what was quite possibly the fastest Kickstarter delivery ever, Fairway received his copy of Under My Bed. Under My Bed is a micro, deduction game by Chris Rowland. Find out if the Fairway’s scared of monsters or whether there’s only good fun in this tiny game.
Aliens know that the best thing in the universe is ice cream. Players have been saving the world from them for years now on their mobile devices. But Fairway was asked to save the universe, yet again, in today’s preview of the cooperative card game: Robots ❤️ Ice Cream.
In this edition of One to Many, we talk with designers about handling disagreements when it comes to co-designing.
Everyone knows elves love baking cookies even if OSHA might object to their unsafe working conditions–who puts hot ovens inside trees? But did you know that gnomes are willing to work really hard to steal them? Fairway found out the hard way that gnomes will stop at nothing to prevent other gnomes from making off with their precious cookie when he reviewed Steal the Cookie by Bradley Gaurano. Steal the Cookie is coming to Kickstarter, soon.
Fairway had a tough weekend for a convention, but managed to get in a few games: Lanterns, Valeria Card Kingdoms, The Guardians: EXPLORE, and Potion Explosion. Check out these mini-reviews!
It turns out that a bunch of the TIGR contributors picked up Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle from USAopoly. In a new feature, TIGR Meet, Cassie, Dan, Jason and Mike all discuss their experience with the cooperative, deck-builder set in the Harry Potter universe.
In episode 46, we take a look at a pick-up-and-deliver game that plays about an hour or slightly under called Isaribi. Isaribi takes place in the Edo period of Japan, and in the game players are taking turns attempting to earn the most money, or Ryo as it known in the game, by fishing and selling their catch in the market along the coast of Tokyo.
Ryan wanted to have a word with game designer, Gil Hova, about his newest game Wordsy. The Wordsy Kickstarter campaign is currently live on Kickstarter and you can play a Twitter-version of the game by sending tweets to Wordsybot. You can also check out Cassie’s video review of the game.