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>vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? If we can ever happen again? What are… we? Divide and conquer.
>Solve for sentience.
In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game.
Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality.
—description from the publisher
Part of the Compile family — see Compile for the combined view.
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- Has an expansion available.
- AI Android stuff.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- two-player — The game is only for two players.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This game is funny. This game is awesome. I laughed so hard. I had tears coming out of my eyes. This is like the first game out of all the games we played today that actually made me laugh.
- I had to stop the recording because my mic kept on picking up my laughter.
- I can't wait to play it again. I love this game. Dead Monkey. Bye-bye.
- The coolest part is going there and finding games you had no freaking idea that existed and that you would like and you just see them on the in the exhibit hall floor or in the gaming hall being demoed or just some random people on the floor in the hall of a hotel playing some cool ass game they just got there and you're like what's that? I want that. Where'd you get that?
References (from this video)
- stand-alone expansion
- compatible with previously released sets
- full of variety
- artificial intelligences trying to understand the world, protocol manipulation
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players vie for power over three locations.
- Deck Mixing/Matching — Players combine 'decklets' to create hybrid decks.
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Quotes (from this video)
- That's right. It is time for us to throw off the shackles of workaday life and become the greatest board game manufacturer that the world has ever seen.
- The Game Makers is, in many ways, a love letter to the board gaming industry.
- players continue the journey started in Cascadia to create the most diverse Pacific Northwest environment that they can by drafting new double-hexagon habitat tiles and wildlife tokens to expand their landscape outward and also, get ready for it, ready? Here we go. Upward.
- where we find that the local zoo has broken into chaos. All the animals have escaped and now they need us to help them back to their respective homes.
- a single player card and dice game where the legendary hero strives to ascend into godhood.
- where the courageous new owner of a magical inn builds their bewitching B&B to best suit an eccentric host of guests, while also cultivating the ivy that's covering the walls.
- Now, Entropy is a big old rondel-powered universe-building Eurogame where scientists bend creation to their will as they create a brand new solar system, coax stars to life, and fuel new biomes all towards the ultimate goal of seeding planets with life.
References (from this video)
- The things seen in this were really cool.
- Doubles the variety of the base game.
- Can easily fit this in with the base game for more variety.
- Don't know if I need two copies of the game.
- Compile
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Drafting different kinds of six-card decks and shuffling them together.
- Set Collection — Trying to play cards strategically to open your opponent and get to a number of your card values in a row.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The most fun I think was when you trade with another player and then you forgot that you just traded with that player and you get the same cards back.
- It felt like a boring tug of war kind of mechanism.
- This is mind sweeper the board game.
- The cake is a lie.