Hey, That's My Fish!

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• Open gaming is the core focus of the convention; as Jess puts it, this is what Aircon is built around and what attendees primarily do.
• This is 90% of what you're going to be doing at Aircon: open gaming and exploring the library with staff and other players.
• The gaming library is, in many attendees' opinions, the best stocked library of any convention the speakers have attended.
• If you see us, please ask us to play a game with you—that's what the whole thing is about.
• We are setting up a Patreon to grow the channel and to fund new kinds of content and bonuses for supporters.
• The demo team is terrific and the staff and volunteers are all very friendly; that community warmth is part of what makes Aircon special.

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• penguin movement and island control — Penguins slide and move to claim fish tiles; tiles are removed when a penguin departs.
• randomized fish placement on ice — Fish tiles are placed on an ice floe and players move penguins to collect them.
• variant movement rules — Some variants push or restrict movement to increase depth.

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• the biggest downside for me for Finsspan was the ratio between the complexity of this game versus the time length
• I would rather play Wingspan in a relatively quickly pace with gamers who knew Wingspan as well rather than play this game for 45 to 60 minutes
• This game is somewhat simple to teach but it does offer a little bit of complexity
• Visually, I think this game plays a lot like Bonsai
• Hey, that's My Fish—catchy title for my daughter as well

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• abstract strategy / area control — Penguin placement with board removal representing melting ice floes.
• Area Control — Penguin placement with board removal representing melting ice floes.
• board as a resource — Locations yield fish; removal creates tension and blocking opportunities.

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• The Bloody Inn. This is on this was a play on a couple of plays on Board Game Arena, and I think the theme and mechanisms aren't as deep and complex and the theme isn't as enticing to me per se.
• Age of Steam is definitely a top-tier experience that I really want to play again.
• Power Grid is a fascinating game where you balance money, plants, and city growth.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Area Control — Players try to cut off opponents and strand them on islands
• Movement — Penguins move in straight lines to different tiles
• Tile Collection — Players move penguins to tiles and collect the tile they left

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• Cribbage is one of those games that gets passed down through generations and we absolutely adore it
• Scout just brings a level of joy with just about everybody we've encountered playing this game
• It's just super simple kind of in-your-face game where you're running around trying to catch this fish
• You get this big kind of game experience and not a ton of time
• Castle Combo is an absolute banger amongst many bangers from last year
• The art in this game is absolutely unmatched
• Dice Miner is quick. It's easy. You can kind of teach to everyone
• There's just all this like interesting kind of math going on
• I'm a massive Lord of the Rings fan. The movies and the books, but particularly the books
• We played through My City twice the entire campaign two times, loved it both times

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