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2024
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Description
Electrify invites 2-4 players into the role of skilled electricians tasked with wiring an expansive hotel under construction. In this vibrant and strategic board game, each player competes to lay down the longest and most efficient cable networks while installing essential electrical components in various rooms.
Throughout the game, players draw cable cards and room cards, allowing them to connect rooms to the main power source. To succeed, players must strategically manage their cable supplies, align with specific room requirements, and carefully navigate the board’s connector boxes. Points are earned based on cable length and the completion of room installations.
The game combines a mix of planning, resource management, and a touch of tactical competition, as players work to control the hotel's electrical network. Do you have the skill to illuminate the entire hotel and outscore your fellow electricians?
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The Dice Tower Event Coverage at 9:01
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none
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none
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It is effervescent. It's an effervescent energy in the room.
- The tension is palpable. It can be palped. Let's palp some tension.
- You You earn these cards.
- I love the details on there.
- I love that you can super build a deck around that.
- The wait is over.
- Joey has something that he wants to say to you guys.
- If you're not here to buy, it's time to keep walking, boy. Keep walking.
- Super excited about it.
- I'm just another brick in the wall.
- Fun is being had by all.
- This right here's my shopping list.
- Check. Check. And done.
- Oh, it's so beautiful.
- Look at what type of a display they put on here. This is amazing.
- What a setup. Look at this.
- Tom is unreasonably excited about uh Crossfire coming back.
- I will say these two gentlemen are lovely when one of them left. I did beat both of them.
- Looks absolutely amazing.
- These are the tables where the award nominees are going to sit and the award winners are going to be panned to with these uh with these cameras these panable panable cameras. That's that's the best description I've got for you.
- Podiums are pieces of crap. Do you understand me? That's a lectern.
- Eric's blocking is a thing of beauty. He spends 80 plus hours on his blocking.
- If there's one thing that Eric Summer is known for, it's blocking.
- This award show is as the result of hours and hours of preparation by people who have obviously mastered jazz hands.
- This piece of equipment here, very specialized piece of equipment, is a catalytic converter.
- He did it. I kind of need to do jazz hands. Success.
- Tom Vassel has turned into his inner Michael Jackson. He's now going to spin move crotch grab. Let's see it.
- This is a side of Tom I've never seen either.
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Meeple University Top List at 6:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Love John D. Claire's designs.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Meeting energy demands and objectives
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Set Collection — Trying to get the right combinations of energy production to meet demands.
- Simultaneous action selection — Features simultaneous action selection with benefits and penalties based on player choices.
- Tableau Building — The game is ultimately a tableau building game.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hi everyone, Stella here from Mele University and that's Tarant and we are doing our Gen Con anticipated games which are the games that we are anticipating and wanting to play or de buy a demo and we haven't played them yet.
- So um, again, we're going to talk about these 10 games in no particular order. And game number one is called Falling.
- So, that makes for an interesting point of decision tension.
- And it is beige. So, it's going to be a good game, right? A good Euro game.
- And if that doesn't sound like a classic Euro theme we say with nothing else
- So, this is for demo and it's recently on crowdfunding. So, I think just finished.
- Yes. Well- loved game and given a redo. Yeah, must be a a reason I mean people there want to be a demand for this game right like container they redo that and a few other games these days is more of a trend
- So those are our 10 anticipated games genon if you see me please say hello even even though I'm in a meeting that's okay you can just I'm happy for people to interrupt me no problems and hopefully I'll see you there soon.
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Man vs Meeple Analysis at 9:09 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- new game from John D. Clair
- looks really cool
- from AEG
- unique and interesting
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Mistborn
- Empires
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Gen Con is about the games first and foremost.
- This is probably my number one game that I'm looking forward to.
- The box is one of the best boxes right now in board games.
- This is what looks to be a wildly open world sandbox game.
- Everyone was loving it.
- So, I think everyone in the industry is looking forward to this thing.
- I don't think this is It is just demo cuz I think it's going to be potentially available for pick up at Essen.
- It just adds a ton of new cards without complicating the game.
- This looks really cool.
- Gen Con Saturday night, from 7:00 to 11:00.
- Last year was such a good time.
- We're not giving away Galactic Cruise Excursions.
- Make sure everyone has fun at the table and at our party, and hopefully we'll see you there.
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BoardGameGeek Discussion at 1:38:58 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Very Positive
Pros
- Engaging engine building
- Satisfying combo of mechanisms
- Simultaneous turns make it quick
- Good solo mode
- Multi-use cards
Cons
- Might need to look at the rulebook due to iterations
Thematic elements
- Generating electricity from coal to nuclear and solar power
Comparison games
- Arc Nova
- Three Sisters
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — It's a simultaneous action selection, slice selection.
- Engine Building — Uh, it is a engine builder.
- Multi-Use Cards — multi-use cards and I love that.
- Resource Management — And you're trying to get the resources to then generate the electricity which then will help you finish a goal which then will give you points but also make your slices more powerful or give you cards or give you more resources.
- Set Collection — So some of the cards have arrows, so it will like allow you to activate other cards that it's connected to. So you get this long chain of actions, which is really fun.
- Simultaneous action selection — So you it's simultaneous turns and if you match someone, you go up on this innovation track, but if you don't match, then that slice and every other slice to the right of it moves up and becomes even more powerful.
- Worker Placement — when you place the card and you activate that slice, you put a cube on everything you're going to activate during that turn and then you can activate it in whatever order by taking a cube off and activating that action.
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Quotes (from this video)
- It's Whisper Wood, one word for one to four players.
- It's much heavier than Flamecraft.
- This is definitely a strategy game. Mid midweight mid to heavy strategy game.
- it's a big game on the table. A lot of moving parts. Gorgeous, gorgeous game because we have Sandor Tang again and Sergio Chavez.
- So, it's a bag builder. You're pulling out these tokens. What you pull out will determine what actions you take.
- And y'all, it is good. It is good. But it's definitely much heavier than previous Cardboard Alchemy games. It's still gorgeous though. It's still gorgeous. Still a sprawling game. And I think for the the Euro strategy lovers, this is going to be a good one.
- Whisperwood. All one word.
- it's perennial uh by Emily Vincent uh published by Fatout Games and art by Beth Sobo who does one of the most beautiful nature art in board games period concerning my opinion.
- we make a beautiful prairie garden
- And yeah, this one looks gorgeous. I was like, "Okay, I need this."
- I'm very excited for Perennial for sure.
- But this is Electrify for one to four players from John Declair and Ian Hutchinson.
- Uh, it is a engine builder.
- It's a simultaneous action selection, slice selection.
- So it's really interesting little engine builder. It goes from like coal all the way to nuclear and solar power and all these other electricity generating things.
- And it's just such a nice combo. Everything's connected but quick because it's simultaneously simultaneous turns to it.
- multi-use cards and I love that.
- So some of the cards have arrows, so it will like allow you to activate other cards that it's connected to. So you get this long chain of actions, which is really fun.
- It's very good. And I've played it and play tested it solo which is also good and it's one that I think is kind of my favorite of what they're coming out this year.
- It's going to be on Kickstarter and I am very excited for this.
- It's very interesting combo of mechanisms and it really is that engine builder goodness that I absolutely love.
- And it really is that engine builder goodness that I absolutely love.
- So, that's Electrify from AG.
- I love seeing that and everybody getting along. No big incidents. I think that's just amazing that so many cultures come together in spread over three different countries because not only in the United States, United States is the most in games but yeah and everybody gets along people joining in on on marches, fan marches and I think that's just awesome to see.
- But it was funny because it was a whole circle thing for me.
- The minions sung the Beach Boys. The banana song is the Beach Boys.
- Yeah. That was totally Beach Boys.
- So, my moment of positivity is it was the 4th of July and so my mom and her friends took and I went with them we went to the July 4th firework spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl.
- It was with the Beach Boys and John Stamos and we usually try to go to the Hollywood Bowl at least once or twice every year and it was a lot of fun.
- It's almost 11 p.m.
- Well, the most common things are Twitch, where you can find twitch.tv/joda.
- Uh I stream on Tuesday. I have my coffee and crowdfunding where I drink coffee and I look at all the crowdfunding campaigns from the past week that have been launched criticizing the page the game and sometimes being positive and also always pick one game but I think well that was the best one for this week.
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Video 7pl5teZeolo
Neon Gorilla Interview at 2:21:15 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Intense engine building with powerful combos.
- System inspired by and evolving from Civ New Dawn's mechanics.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Engine building taken to the max
Comparison games
- Civ New Dawn
- Arnak
- Terraforming Mars
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Engine Building — The primary focus, allowing players to build increasingly powerful combinations.
- Tile Crafting — A form of crafting where players modify or upgrade components.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Dominion is like a cheat code for game design.
- The momentum system isn't a BS tagline at all. It is a true system that I think for me has transcended deck builders.
- I I don't think people have any responsibility.
- It's a matter of scaling, but that would be that would be exciting to get to another floor and like, 'Oh, this is a whole new deck.'
- The magic of Unstoppable is that moment where you look at your hand and you've got like two cards, right? And you're like, there's no way I can kill all these threats with these two cards. I'm screwed.
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