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Challenge rival students to become the best in class in Arcane Academy, a board game of tile-linking wizardry that pits young spellcasters against one another in a duel for honor and prestige. Forge potent magic items and wield wickedly powerful elemental energies to out-think and out-maneuver your opponents.
Arcane Academy is based on the critically acclaimed, all-ages comic series Finding Gossamyr, which is set in a fantasy world in which math is the language of magic.
Year Published
2016
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Adam's Board Game Wales analysis at 13:19 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Interesting chain reactions and combos
- Showcases detuned action-selection with tile activation
Cons
- Complexity may increase learning curve
Thematic elements
- magical academy
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- tile-based action chaining — Tiles on a personal board trigger additional actions when activated; later turns unlock combos.
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- actions selection it's a very hard thing to pin down
- there are so many options but some players will find this totally overwhelming
- one of the most ill-defined sort of category of games
- the clever action selection mechanism here relates to the sharing of these dice between the players
- in Dominion a player has their own personal deck of cards
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Unknown Channel top_10_list at 10:18
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- exhaustion tokens linked activations — placing exhaustion tokens triggers linked tile abilities for synchronized effects.
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- tableau builders feature a wide and diverse range of markets and currencies
- the beauty of this mechanism is the chain reactions that it creates when you take your turn
- it's a really nice feedback loop
- the world feels bigger than your own little player area
- tableau building is a core, solid mechanic that many designers build around
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