My December Gaming

 December ended up being a busy month for me in non-gaming ways. Apart from some play testing (thanks again, Butron Shy!), I didn’t really learn many new games and the ones I did learn were very light. 

I learned:

Paper Pinball - Little Ghost

Reawaken (play test)

Villainopolis (play test)

Coin Pusher: Galactic Surge

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The highlights were the playtests but that’s largely because of how slight the rest were. I try and learn at least one Roll and Write a month and they kept rolling this month.

Of them, the best was easily Coin Pusher: Galactic Surge. It is still a very light game but it has solid theming and the mechanics have enough to give you interesting choices.

Looking at the January calendar, I don’t see a lot of free time so I’ll be digging back into my R&W backlog.

My December PnP

On the one hand, I got a decent amount of PnP crafting done in December. On the other hand, I didn’t end up using as much of it as I hoped to.

I made:

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Paper Pinball: Little Ghost

Paper Pinball: Comb Clash

Paper Pinball: Escape the Vent

Coin Pusher: Galactic Surge

Villainopolis (play test)

Launchtime

Packing Party (basic version)

Astro ROVE - Hyperdrive Hops (play test)

Everything Machine (play test)

A Dragon’s Gift (demo)

Arcane Bakery Clash + expansions

Criss Cross

Dinks and Donkeys

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The Button Shy playtest forum had a busy month and I did my best to keep up. And I was able to do that from the printing and crafting side. However, I just didn’t have the time to play all of it. 

I had planned on the demo for A Dragon’s Gift to be my ‘big’ project for December. And I do quite like it. 

However, somehow, Arcane Bakery Clash ended up taking over a weekend of crafting. I had been interested in its use of timing but getting two-player PnP games played can be hard. Other people want quality components lol 

When I learned that it had not one but three expansions for solitaire play, three different AI opponents. And another expansion besides. I ended making all of them, even though all I needed one was solitaire module and the base set. Now I have to actually play the thing.

(Note the earlier comment about finding gaming time lol)

I also, among other things, decided to finish laminating all of the Paper Pinball games. I want to finish trying all of them so I can play any of them when I feel like it.

Not my strongest month for playing games for a good one for making them.