Card Game Traders, otters, otters, more otters - then an all-out lane battle! | Good Morning Society

[Music] Hello. Good morning. Oh, [ __ ] Yeah. No way. [Music] [Laughter] I wish I could take off my sweater, but it's attached to my other sweater. Wow. Just wow. That's the hottest start we've ever had. Only if I was ready. And given the way I rolled in here this morning, you should have known what would happen.

What's up, everybody? Hey, friends. Welcome to Good Morning Society. I'm Ruel Gabiola. I'm Becca Scott. And we've got our beverages. We've already gotten into the shenanigans. And at some point, we'll be talking about games today. Games. I like games. Um I do too. Welcome back, Becca. you were away from uh last week and I gave you plenty of notice and everything was fine.

It was great. It went well. We had fun with uh Jake Michaels filling in. Heard of him. Love him. Great guy. Yeah. Pretty cool. Yeah. But uh how are you doing today? I am excellent. Let's see what's new with me. Uh uh a a constant barrage of chaos and joy. Chaos and joy. Yeah, that's how I describe life.

Yeah, that that that is a good description of life these days. just don't look at the news. And that's that's the best advice I can give you, you know. That's fantastic advice. Um Michelle and I were talking about that last week. Um going into the weekend, we said, you know, we're not going to look at the news this weekend.

Yeah. We had a great weekend. Yeah. Yeah. Played games, saw some friends, went to a comedy show. It was It was great. Oo. What kind of comedy show? Uh we went to the Ontario Improv to see um the JR Deguzman. He's a a young Filipino American comedian. Funny as heck. And we took my niece and her boyfriend fun.

uh a little interesting when the comedian's talking about certain subjects that you've never really talked about with your niece and it was made for an interesting time. It's like watching the sex scene in Titanic with your mom. Yeah. Like a awkward uh Yeah. Very awkward. It's the only sex scene I've ever seen.

So that was the one I had to call out. I've never seen it. Actually, I have. We're calling this episode the demonetized special. Yeah. No, baby. What's up? I love it. So, yeah, another great show today, folks. Um, we're going to be taking a look at all the hot new games, talking a little bit, uh, what's going on in the channel, and oh, you know what I did this weekend?

Another thing I did, first time ever, I took my I dipped my toes into the wonderful world of CCGs, I played Star Wars Unlimited back then. It was awesome. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Are you a collectible card gamer now? I'm I'm I'm Did you purchase product yet? I did not purchase product yet. Okay. You're you're you're safe so far.

So far, it took me everything I had not to buy something. So, uh every Were you at a local game store? I was. Yeah. Every Thursday I'm at Critical Hit Games down in Corona, California. I live streamed with them and we played Star Wars Unlimited. I was like, "This is ridiculous. I'm totally going to buy every single box now that I can get my hands on." I played with Jake and it was an absolute delight.

Uh I'm also a magic player and a flesh and blood player. So um it presents conflict in my life. Um but uh I loved it. It was it was kind of had a um Star Realms element that you have like a base to protect. Yeah, exactly. And that's I think that's why I liked it so much cuz so much of it felt familiar.

Yeah. You know, I mean it was different enough but just like okay, I remember this. But I love the whole like you take one action and then you know the next player goes and I was Darth Maul. That was my leader. So, I'm like, come on. Of course, I'm gonna love this game. So, yeah, folks, hit me up if you're in the CCGs.

Uh, let me know your experiences. Bon, sorry, I maybe you missed this, but uh Bons is currently in the dentist chair. So, shout out to Bonsinator, who is a frequent subhost on this channel. Everyone say hello to Bonsa's dentist. Hello, Bons. Bons be nice. Oh, yeah. So, anyways, yeah, CCGs. Um, I can see the appeal there.

TCG, the appeal for real. Sorry. This is going to be a great show. I can feel it already. Let's uh Why don't we move on to what's new on the channel? You know what is new on the channel? Um, newish. 15 days old to be precise. Yeah, it's good time of the clock tower. The Kickstarter. I mean, folks, we're at almost 1,500 backers.

That's amazing. Yeah. Uh, that's so freaking cool. We are already at six episodes if you see our stretch goals there. So, what um I haven't yet announced certain stretch goal guest cast that I've been speaking with. Um we do have Sam Rich, Erica Ishi, and Ify Watiway that are already uh on my secret these people are stretch goals.

Um but uh I have some other ones up my sleeve. So, I'm going to be releasing that information at some point. And my real dream is reaching the full season of 10 episodes, uh, which we have here at 250. Yeah. So, we're almost halfway there. This is great. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, look, a six episode season is already incredible.

So, we've already reached a really, really happy point. But 15 days to go and I have certain announcements that are going to be coming out in these next 15 days. Hello, Jordan Brown. The Jordan Brown Doctor Dropout in on Instagram interviewed me just to talk about this. So, what's up? 500K. You think we can do it?

20 episodes. That would be incredible. That would be incredible. Oh, I did tell you a secret. You can't say you know a secret. Secret. Now, everybody's going to be in your DM saying, "Tell me that secret." I love it. Yeah. Folks, we got uh 15 days to go, so let's make it happen. I would love to see a full season.

That would be incredible. I know. Well, it's also the thing is I have a spreadsheet of the cast for each of these 10 episodes in my dream cast list. Not everyone knows that they are on my spreadsheet, but they're there. But, uh, you know, I I've tried to frontload it so we get some really cool people, but there's people that maybe need a plane ticket in and need some hotel accommodations and um, we need to get closer to that 10 episode price point for that to happen.

So, if you've already donated or you don't have the funds, but you want to help, share it. Yeah. Just a gamer, you know, email it to them. It really helps. Yeah. Share it on the socials, folks. And we appreciate it. You can see the link in chat right now. Um, check it out there and be sure to um uh share that and uh if you have the means to um support the channel as well.

Um we want to thank you all for supporting us. And there's other new things happening on the channel as well, including uh our friend Amy Don. Amy crafting the cosmos on this very set. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Right behind us. This looks really neat. Um I never heard of this game until I saw Amy's video and it looks fantastic.

And I love uh she got like really uh dressed up like dressed appropriately. She's a part of the game now. She will shrink down and become a component meat if she's not careful. Uh yeah, I I love the neon brightness of this game. I'm really excited to give it a play. Yeah, same. And um yeah, so be sure to check that out on the channel, folks.

Uh Amy's uh walks you through uh the cosmos. Well, crafting the cosmos. Very uh very forbidden snacks on the components of that game, so you know that I'm interested. Forbidden. You mean like you want to eat the components? Yeah, that that'll get me every time. Snacks. Oh, wow. Is it like a zoo? I always want to eat those pieces.

They look like Starburst. They look like um um Christopher Elbow chocolates, which is a chocolier in Kansas City, Missouri. Uh, if anybody knows, Google this. It's a zool pieces in a candy. They're like finely painted chocolates. And that's when that I saw that game. I was like, Christopher Elbow. Oh my god, that's great.

That's what I would always get as like a birthday gift. Yeah. Yeah, it is a deep cut. It's a very deep cut. A Patalone reminds us. Yeah, the wingspan eggs. Like you need to keep those things away from me during Easter time. Those eggs look like the little chocolates. Krie has a those on her desk right now.

Then I ate one yesterday and now and I'm not sure it wasn't a wingspan face. Um, this is me just ranting about things happening in the studio. But uh, speaking of this little set, this is the temporary set because if you come often, you may know we just moved into a new studio that we're really excited about and um, everything is a bit of a work in progress.

specifically our sets, but we're gonna have a super super cool set that we've just kind of finalized plans for. And you may see the wall behind the tree is now green, which is a little hint. Yeah, the painting has begun, which means things are actually happening. We're we're not only creating a Good Morning Society custom set, but we're going to have a little card game set and we're going to have a little tutorial set and uh and then we've got our role playing game set already locked.

So, um lots going on. It's very fun to um get to take the things that we had shoved all into one space that were overlapping and sitting on top of each other and to just like have them have a little bit of room to breathe and each have their own dedicated space. So, it's all a work in progress. Uh some of it maybe will go on hold until more funding comes, right?

But um but Good Morning Society set is uh is actually happening. Yeah, I'm thrilled with the direction everything. You know, like just a few years ago, do did you ever think you'd be at this point, like this point in time, like now? Absolutely not. The space is ginormous. It's awesome. It's crazy. I never would have imagined that this little thing could become what it has become and is continuing to grow and uh you all are a part of it just by being here in the society.

And um appreciate you. Thank you folks. Appreciate you. Appreciate you, Becca. Appreciate you, Ray. Ray and everyone else here. Appreciate you, Jake. Jake and I appreciate the fact that we can move on into the next segment where we talk about games. Becca, I think we should reach into the bag of games.

What do you say? What? Let's talk about games, folks. Uh the first one on tab today is a game called Card Game Traders. Now, I just talked about Star Wars Unlimited, uh the CCG. This card game traders. Yes. This game is about card game CCGs where you're trying to buy um the most expensive cards and manipulate the values of the market so your cards are more expensive.

So, it's got this whole meta thing going on. It's a card game about card games, my friends. Look at the art there. Interesting. I wonder if that's supposed to represent anything. very close to uh yeah getting a lot of I can't imagine what that would be because it's got um a light blue and yellow and then some of these cards look and then uh you may recognize just a yellow mouse.

I don't know what you're referring to. I feel like this might be a lawsuit in the works, but perhaps this is just placeholder art. We should all buy a copy before the lawsuit happens so they can pay for the lawyer. No, no, no. You can see in the bottom left that's just first edition shiny dragon. Oh, okay.

You know. Yeah. Well, it is. Um I mean I I I don't know if we're going to see Well, I mean it's supposed to be coming out from Samur Games uh October this year. It's a two to four player game. Uh designer I'm going to murder the name here. Dom Milo. I liked it. Okay. Thanks. Uh art by Francisco Rico Torres.

Two to four game players 20 to 40 minutes. Um you're if you ever played Millennium Blades, uh that's a game about collecting card games, right? Oh, this is similar but a little lighter and instead of, you know, this heavy, you know, Euro game, it's more of a quick playing card game. And look at this cute little dragon.

Look at this flower. First lotion first edition flower. Oh my god. And and for the deeper nerds, uh there are Yu-Gi-Oh cards there to the right. There's a blue eyes white dragon and a dark magician girl. Just had to show my TCG bonafide. Very nice, Ray. Um, yeah. So, here, I'll take another quick look at the cover here.

I'm buying this immediately. Right. Um, there's a game called Veggie Vegetable Stock that reminds you of this where you're playing cards in order to drive up the prices on certain cards, lower the prices on others, and as you set collect uh the correct cards, that's when you're going to get the most points.

So in this case, Ray, would it be should I go for those little dragons or Becca? Should I go for that flower or whatever it's called? A lotus. A lotus of some kind. It looks like a rainbow lotus. Yeah, the the fabulous magic lotus or whatever they call it, fell. Yeah. So, yeah, this this looks hilarious to me.

I mean, I saw the the the uh theme and I was like, "Okay, yeah, this is going to play well." Yeah. I don't know how the mechanic works of driving up the price, but um it does remind me a game we played here uh is Gyms of Iridissia, which has a every time you sell back a certain color gem to the supply, it raises the value of that gym on a represented by a die and then when you get to six, it goes back to one.

Yes. Um that was also like uh there's all those mountain climbing games. It was that match with the mountain climbing where you move forward up the mountain, right? Yeah. Yeah. I believe this is uh similar, but um we're going to see. I mean, hopefully gets released. I like Quick Sonic Odysseies. This sounds like a stoner idea.

Totally. Uh read the fine print. I'm sure it was like one night. So So is that game not out yet? Uh no, it's supposed to be released October 23rd of this year. I was literally trying to buy it. Yeah. No luck, huh? Okay. Um yeah, so hopefully there's no lawsuits involved with that, but we shall see, Becca.

We shall see. What is our country if not a pile of lawsuits? Yeah. Why don't we uh propel over to the next game? We've got Propeller Island. Nice. Well done. Yes. Yeah, that was I'd probably score one point out of that hopefully. I don't know. Right. Uh Propeller Island though, it's a We love our cute critters here.

Yeah. This is from Queen Games and it's a cute critter game. uh open drafting where you're joining smart animals and building islands with gear and energy crystals. So, it's a dice drafting game. I know we liked our dice drafters here. I sure do. Yeah. You each turn you take dice from a pool, use them to gain resources, produce resources, more resources, and populate your buildings.

And uh with all the different buildings you have, there's going to be a lot of replayability. I picked this game out mainly because the design designer and artist pairing here. It's Stan Cordansky, the designer, and uh the uh artist is the Miko. Um he's uh known for art like Raiders of the North Sea, Architects of the West Kingdom, the Imperium Horizon games.

Yeah, those are some Renegade ones. Love those titles. And then, excuse me. And then Stan Cordonsky, he's designed games like Endless Winter, Dice Hospital. One that I thought was really good and overlooked was Lock Up, a roleplayer tale, and uh Resurgence. So, you have this combination. A role player tale.

Yeah, that sounds unique. You know the role player universe? The game There's a game called Role Player. Sort of like Sagrada, but you're rolling dice and you're creating like a D and D character. Interesting. Yeah. So, they made a game of that. There's a game about every facet of a game that could ever be game.

Seriously. And then Lockup was the worker placement version of that game. So, I was all over that. But yeah, you get those two um that designer and this artist. I'm like, okay, this is I mean, not really. I don't know if it's like Snoop and Dre level, but it is pretty pretty, you know, pretty cool um uh combination of characters here for this game.

Yeah, very cool. Yeah. So, that is Propeller Islands uh coming out um Oh, it's launching in two weeks. Uh April Oh, next week. What is time? I truly I cannot believe it's almost April. It's honestly forbidden. It's so This is I disagree. I say no. A quarter of the year already. What the heck? I'm going to be going to New York in April.

Wait, what? You're going to New York? It has been announced. This is a tangent. Oh, yeah. I love tangents. Speaking of roleplaying, there is an off Broadway show called 20sided Tavern and uh it is in partnership with Dungeons and Dragons and it's been going on I think for a couple years now. And um it's a live show that incorporates elements of Dn D with like an phone app where viewers or the audience gets to participate in where the story goes.

And I'm going to get to be a player on this stage and uh yeah, everybody fits into sort of like D&D archetypes and uh we just go on the adventure. I know Erica and Abria and if have all gone out to New York to guest on it as well and so I'm in good company. I'm really excited that they invited me and I will be the last guest that they have before they close their New York one and take it on tour.

Oh, wa right on folks. Yeah, the link in chat. Be sure to check that out. Um, so that's uh next month already. Wow. Uh, my run starts on April 24th. Exciting. You know, are you paired with any other guests? No, I'm so just one guest. I think it's uh the storyteller, the dungeon master, and three players on stage at a time.

I believe more details once I've rehearsed. Oh, I love that. I love New York. This is a cool. I'm very excited. Uh because I will be bringing David and baby Bella and we're just going to be making a vacation out of it where I don't see them that much, but we sleep in the same place and I go to rehearsal and they hang out in New York and see family and stuff.

So yeah, it's going to be a blast. That's cool. Awesome. Um so you're going to be crossing over to the country next uh week and why don't we cross over to Kingdom Crossing, our next game here. Hello. Uh, we're going to help the queen build a new bridge for the kingdom in a Euro style game. That's what I'll be doing in New York.

Yeah. Um, this is a one to four player game, 45 to 90 minutes from publisher. I love this publisher's name. Sorry, we are French. Sorry, we're French. Designers Marco Canetta Stefania, Nicolini, artist David Sitman. Uh, so this is a program movement game. And what's really interesting, so it's very Eurogamey, right?

But here's the thing, Becca. What I do with those player boards? Yeah. Isn't this great? I dove into the premise of this. So, this is really interesting. Kingdom Crossing is inspired by the problem of the seven bridges of Konersburg. Now, according to my Croninberg, Croninberg, according to my deep knowledge of the subject, aka I looked on Wikipedia this morning.

The problem um was brought up by Swiss mathematician Leonard Uler in 1736. Um, it was a problem of you had to devise a way to walk through the city that would cross each of the seven bridges only one time. Whoa. And apparently it's impossible. He did the math and um it's impossible. But they did a game on it.

I'm like, what the heck? I mean, we're just talking about there's a game for every subject I mean topic. This is it. So trying so hard. I don't know if you can find the answer to this impossible infuriating. Yeah. But um yeah, program movement and um it's pretty pretty cool that they would make a game based on that problem.

I mean, cool or obscure? And you know what, obscure is cool. So, yes. Yeah, I got there. Yeah. Um so, I don't know. If anything, I learned that there was a Swiss mathematician named Leonard Leonard Uler in 17736. I mean, sorry, we are French. I'm always excited about everything we've talked about on the show from this new company.

Um, in with a name like that, how could you disappoint? Exactly. And look, it's got cute critters as well. So, I'm in cute critters. It always helps. A centuries old math problem. I mean, what says board games better than that? Yeah. Nothing. Literally nothing. All right, cool. Um, I don't know how to move on to this next game.

I will say it's What's the name? What's the name? website it uh it's this one right here. I look we have a long and storied history on the show of brilliant transitions. They can be chronicled throughout the ages. Oh, just like Chronicles of Civilization. We are leading our nation to triumph in an advanced flip and write strategy game.

So, you all know I love these type of this type of model where it's uh print and play. So, right now, I mean, it's being funded. It's got 14 days to go. This is going to be a heavier rolling, right? So, yes, you're going to be rolling dice and you've got your little player boards, but look at this. It's a sim game, Becca.

I'm I'm seeing Tend, which was the Ivy Studios heavy rolling, right? That I am obsessed with. I dreamed about that game for days. Um, we need to get this thing more funding. 15 days left to go. And, uh, I guess their original goal was modest, $217, $15. 5,000 US now. Not bad. Yeah. But uh Oh, and it's based in Poland.

Yeah. So, we have Radic Ignatau. Again, apologies for the pronunciation, but he's done a bunch of rolling rights before. He's a, you know, regular board game designer. This one looks like his crunchiest rolling right. Um, he was wanted to replicate the experience of a Civ video game. Yeah. But, uh, analog style using uh pens and, uh, essable boards and whatnot.

So, Oh, looks pretty cool to me. And as Becca brought up, tanned, that was a very crunchy rolling, right? And I think this is going to be along the same way. I'm into this. I would like to play. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like we should back this. Totally. And and that's the great thing about these type of games.

Um they're totally affordable. Well, uh way more affordable than say, you know, the a proper board game. U because you print it at home and you use your own, you know, meeples and stuff. And uh ah I see every single version of it is a print and play. So, hence why uh it's got such a modest goal. Uh there's nothing to be shipped, which makes it a lot easier.

Yeah. You don't have to worry about, you know, overseas shipping or anything. You just have to worry about all that ink you're using on your printer. And, you know, hey, it's probably time for you to replace your ink cartridge anyway. So, do that and print out Chronicles of Civilization. Uhhuh. Okay.

All right. So, yeah, you really ought change that ink. That's it. Got it. Becca does it all the time. At least once for show. We ought to go to the next game. It is a game called Otter. There it is. And I don't know how this one slip past us. It's cute. Like mega cute. It's got this really great trailer which I'm going to put on right now.

Wonderful player card game. It's just a shedding game or a ladder climbing game. uh you're just playing cards and if you played Uno, you'll have a very uh good idea of what this plays, but each card is different. Um they have different rules about numbers and suits and super cute art. Isn't this video great?

What? I'm in. Yeah, I'm totally in on this. It's uh now on Backer Kit. It's a two to four player game plays about 15 to 30 minutes from Dylan Coyle uh the designer um artist. Look at this fancy otter. I think we need to they need to re fund raise for a limited series. I feel like there's a plug. There we go.

Truly the best way to market this game would be to make a viral Tik Tok dance of us all in otter costumes doing that little dance they just I would love that. Um it's backing right now on Backer Kit. Got about uh eight uh eight days left. Is this the otter dance? Yeah. How about the otter dance? I'll be the crab.

Oh crab. Oh. Oh, I like the A. Super cute. I'll just keep dancing. Don't worry about it. How? Eight days left on Backer Kit. Yeah, eight days left on Backer Kit. Uh so folks, be sure to check that out. Uh from Charming Games Collective, apparently it's a collective appropriately named. Yes. Yeah. Super car.

I mean, I don't again super charming. I don't know how we missed it, but we got it. There it is. There's the otter. Oh, they can't watch anymore, but this is what's happening there. Okay, I'm just gonna We'll just I don't know what we're doing. Hit every button. I'm just hitting every button. I got all the buttons, folks.

Just hit them all. We'll go to the top down. We'll do whatever. All right. Hey. Uh, yeah. I have crashed. I have crashed the stream deck, I think. Oh, no. Really? Okay, now we're back. Okay, we are back. The stream deck is uh gone. Um, that was fun. Um, we've talked about games. Why don't we play a game now?

I love playing games. I do, too. It's time for our jacked up match up. Nice. Woo! I made it vicious that time. Yeah, we've got a vicious game going on called Critters at War. So, we love our cute critters. Uh but this time, our cute critters are going to be punching each other. Okay. Uh on three different theaters.

We have Air, Land, and Sea, which is also the name of another board game, I believe. Yeah. And um you very very well done, Becca. That it is another game. This is just the rethe of it. Ah, yeah. They decide, you know, the war theme is a Okay, but why don't we just do cute critters instead? So, we're going to play on this side and also this side.

Oh, okay. Um, and sorry, um, this is here. So, in um, Critters at War, Airland, and Sea. Airland and Sea. We are just going to play cards into onto one of our sides here. So, Becca, I'll be here and you'll be here. Okay. And, um, let's see. This is random. Should we do this way? Uh, sure. Okay. Okay.

Uh, choose one of these and reveal. Okay, you are gonna be first. Oh, so we each get uh six cards. You may look at these. One, two, three, four, five, six. And then one, two, three, four, five, six for me. Uh, this is the deck here. And on your turn, uh, you're going to play a card either face up or face down on the matching theater.

So, you notice the different colors, you just place it there. Um, this is an area control game. Um, what we're trying to do is score 12 victory points. I'll put the point tokens out here. First of 12 wins. First of 12 wins. Um, what you can do, so if you place a card face down, it's worth two points.

Interesting. Okay. And it could go to any theater. However, there's other cards. I'll just draw one from the deck here. So maybe you want to do Okay, so this number one, it's an air card cuz it's white. And this is an ongoing ability. Uh, the little uh infinity symbol. Just read it and you do it. You gain plus three strength in each adjacent theater.

Yeah. So, this is an adjacent, this is not adjacent. Fair. Uh, and then the lightning bolts are instance. So, you know, draw one card, blah, blah, blah. Place it face down. You just read it. And at any time as, uh, you may withdraw. And if you do that, then you're going to look at the little card sheet here.

So, if you played cards and I decided to withdraw, however many cards I have left in my hand is how many points you get. Oh. So, right now, if I withdrew, I have four cards in my hand. I You would get three points. Okay. Okay. So, yeah, that's how you're going to get points. I feel like we got to try it to get it.

Yeah, absolutely. So, let me So, I go first, eh? Uh, yes, you go first. All right. All right. All right. All right. Um, it's giving uh Compile. Have you played Compile yet, Ru? I have not. That's good. Yeah, I know. Uh, you guys were raving about Compile. We were on it for a little while, I think. Start with a C card.

Okay, this is uh five points. Five value. Five value. It's got a blockade, which is an ongoing effect. It says if any player plays a card to an adjacent theater occupied by at least three other cards, destroy that card. Oh, okay. So, once there's three in Landon Air, interesting. You can't play more.

Okay. Now, I could withdraw here. If I did that, then you would get um two points because I withdrew with four more cards. Is that what it says there? Oh, okay. But I'm not going to withdraw. I'm going to fight. I'm going to also go here. I'm going to escalate. Escalation. All of my face down cards are now strength four.

So, all the cards are worth two, but because of that, now mine are worth four. Okay. Interesting. Huh. Okay. Then we'll play containment. If any player plays a face down card, destroy that card. What? Wow. So that's a level five. Okay. Um so Oh, let me uh check a rule real quick. So um and we're trying to we're battling over each of these um theaters and then um the battle will be uh for each theater, I believe.

Yeah. Ending battles. Okay. So, you played that, which is no good. I'm going to play my heavy tanks. Just six points. Just six freaking points. Six freaking points. Okay. Oh, yeah. I'm almost like, did Compile really study this game when they made Yeah. And this has been out for a while now. Yeah. Presumably, the lower the point value, the better the ability.

Is that? Yep. Okay. And then covering means you play after. Is that a cover? Yeah. if you cover card. Um, so if you have the the same color, you would cover the first coin, but you still get the ability. Yeah. Okay. Great. Okay. So, the battle is for two of the three theaters. Whoever wins the two of the three theaters will get the points.

I see. So, right now, you've got one, two, I've got one. Okay. Okay. So, interesting. Let's go ahead and Uh, I'm going to go ahead and we don't draw anything. We only have what's in our hand. Yeah. And I believe there are some cards that allow you to draw, but I don't have any of those. Okay. I'm going to play [Music] Aerodrome.

Cards of strength three or less can be played to non-matching theaters. Oh, so that means face down cards, right? Um, well, I guess never mind. They don't match anything. Yeah. Um, you know what? I've got four cards. If uh points scores if I withdraw now, you would get three points if I withdraw. Cuz I don't like my hand anymore.

Uhoh. This one killed me. Your containment. So, I'm going to withdraw with four cards in my hand. Okay. So, that means Becca gets three points. No, two. Um, let's see. I'm second player. Cards left in my hand. Yeah. Three points. I see. It's different. Different. Yes. Okay. So, you get three points.

Quarter of the way there. So, what we do is take these cards. And now, um, I'll shuffle them up. If you can move the theaters. So, it's like a what is that called? Yeah. Okay. What's that called? The thing in Mario. Um, rotate. Uh, plant piranha. Um, these all go in. Yeah. And it'll reshuffle. God, there was a word for it.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? Treadmill. Tread. Like, it's like a treadmill, but there's another word for it. Someone's going to know. Yeah, know. Rondell carousel. What's the thing like when you go eat sushi and it's going all around the restaurant? Conveyor belt. Yes. It's It's Lucy eating her chocolate.

Conveyor belt. There we go. Okay, cool. The old factorio. Yes. Two, three, three, four, four, five, five, six, six. And let's see. Okay. You went first last time and then the next player um switch. I believe so. Yeah. Yep. Feels right. All right. So, I will lead this time and uh let's see. Symmetry.

All right. I'm going to play a super battleship for six. What? Think you should withdraw now. I'm going to tell you that. You should withdraw now. Back. Okay. Wait. You want me to? Yeah. Cuz then if you withdrew, I have six cards. So you'd get two points. Two points. Yeah. Now, of course, we could play out all our cards and then the winner would get six points.

Withdraw. Oh, are you serious? Enjoy your two. Yeah, I had a six. I had a five. And I had no green. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. I wasn't going to win blue after that six. Oh, I probably should have held that six then. Okay, switch up. Here we go. That's true. Yeah, that's a good strategy. It's okay. I I'm not going to tell you my good strategy.

You know, save the high cards for later. Makes sense. Four, five, five, six, six. Becca will leave this time. Okay. All right. What do we got? What do we got? What do you got? Interesting. All right. Okay. Okay. We're going to start with a little uh Oh, just a little two. It's an escalation. My face down cards are now strength four.

Oh, do I have that? Oh, man. I don't like that. Are you supposed to move the theaters? Oh, yeah. Yeah, let's move the theaters. Oh, thank you. Conveyor belt style as we Ginger sky. Thank you. Good eye. Thank you, Ginger. Okay, I'm going to play uh reinforce. This says draw a card and place it face down to an adjacent theater.

Ooh. So, now I've got two there. We don't even know what it is. [Music] Okay. Well, well, well. Well, well. Oh, I don't like that. Laugh. I'm going to play a little support. You gain plus three strength in each adjacent theater. What? Okay. Okay. So, yeah. No big deal. Okay. Um but it's just one. It's just one in here.

Uh I don't know if I like that. Uh let's see. I like it. Mhm. Oh shoot. Okay. I'll play airrop. So next time I play a card, I may play it to a non-matching theater. Interesting. Okay. Okay. H I just want more cards, though. Yeah. All right. So, if we you withdrew right now, I would get I'm going to play with I'm gonna play uh two to land.

Interesting. Okay. Well, I'm going to play Oh, no. I don't want to play that. So, currently I'm winning land by one. You're winning air by three. Oh, wait. I'm I do have five here. Yeah. So, I'm winning this by four. You've got this by three. I've got this by five. Okay. I'm going to play a redeploy.

And this one is you may return one of your face down cards to your hand if you do play a card. So, I'm going to return this to my hand. Okay. And then I get to play a card. I'm going to play. Hey, I'm going to play heavy bombers for six. So, I've got eight here, four here, and then you've got your plus things there.

Oh, shoot. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. Game Rasc. Hi, welcome. Well, I'm just going to say uh someone talking about spamubi. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I'm hungry now. Sorry. I've completely let the chat devolve into discussion of sushi and I'm okay with it. Yakaniku. How dare you let this happen? I'm going to say cover fire.

All cards covered by this card are now strength four. Dang it. Okay. So that So that's eight plus 19 and 11 on land. Oh man. Okay. Okay. If I withdraw now, I don't want to give up. Are one away from C and you've got air. I've got air. Okay. I'm going to play a blockade on C. What's that say? If any player plays a card to an adjacent theater um occupied by at least three of the cards, destroy that card.

Okay. So, you're safe for now. Okay. Interesting. Uhhuh. This is 11 day. Um, and you've got two cards left. Mhm. Uhhuh. But if you have two cards left, I would get four points. Cards left in your hand. If I withdrew, unless you pay one more. Yeah. So, if I withdraw now, you got four points. But if you withdrew, I would get three points.

Oh, no. You have one card left. I would get four points. Okay. I think I think that uh yeah, sorry I haven't been here with the golf commentary cuz I'm really good golf. I'm going to play a disrupt in land. Okay, starting with you. Both players choose and flip one of their uncovered cards. Okay. Oh, wait.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. All of your face down cards are north strength four. Oh, these do the same thing. Mhm. So, actually, I would like to play that face down. Okay. So, you're crushing this one. Okay. Um, flip and uh no. Um, RUL looking at a airc advantage. wondering. Okay, he can press his luck on land as a two here.

Interesting. So you have nine 10 11 there. So it would be not great for Oh gosh. Oh gosh. If you withdraw now, I only get four points. But if you don't withdraw, I have the potential to get six points. Rule hoping that his Oh, I was like, what? It's always, you know, it's always convincing when your opponent says, "You should withdraw now." That's I would trust that, Becca.

For sure. It's hard It's hard to be ironic when you're whispering. I actually um sarcastic. I messed up. I should have played this here. Uh and so, unfortunately, uh Oh, cuz you've got 11 here. Yeah. 11 eight and then yeah one. So uh alas I will withdraw. Okay. So you have one card left. Uh yeah had I played this here I had a six.

But if I put this here I would have won here because you had the plus three. I just was so like ready to play it on its other side that I forgot forgot to think about it. Okay. All right. So now I've got So close. Was it a blue? It doesn't matter. It was Oh, yeah. It was a blue. Yeah. Oh, you could have played it face down and there.

Okay. Uh, so we switch cards. Silly. I was so silly. So close. So you'll be second turn on first. You know, somebody's got to win. Somebody's got to win someday. Yep. It's not going to be me. I'll shuffle though. I'll shuffle though. So our first play conveyor belt convey conveyor belt sushi. Okay. Quick Sonotic Odyssey with the uh golf voice font.

Shooter Mc. Yeah, they they they've decided that Becca, you're happy Gilmore. And I was like, "Oh, okay. Who else can't possibly be mean enough to be Shooter McGavin?" Okay. Five cards each. Uh, six cards each. Wait, is it five? What do we do? Six. I don't know what it is. Uh, each player. Everything's Everything's wrong.

Six. There was a face up card. Okay, now we got to do it. Now it's for real. The price is wrong. Well, yeah. Thank you. It was down to the last card. I can't believe I did that. Okay, hold on. No, no, no, no. I dealt me first. I dealt me first. What is going on? I don't know. Here we go. One, two, three, four, five, six.

Okay, you're first. All right. Okay, here we go. I'm giving you the option. Do you want to draw now? Thank you. Yes. Do you really? It's not my turn. Oh. Um, okay. Let's go with um Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Uh, reinforce. Draw one card and place it face down to an adjacent theater.

There's my turn. Oh my gosh. Okay, I love that card. That's how you get extra cards in this game, folks. Interesting. [Music] [Music] You know what? All righty. With the land and sea advantage, I think uh yeah, I'm going to call for some containment. If any player plays a face down card, we'll be destroying that card.

Ooh, well, there goes my plans. Okay. Wow, that changes to control play um to take over the board. Okay. Control play in the air. What is this? Aorius heavy bombers for six. Heavy bombers. Yeah. Come on. [Music] I'm going to say, you know, I'm just really I'm realizing this artwork is pretty funny on these cards.

You have like little pigs and rabbits. And is that a dog? Oh, I got some gophers in a golfers. Yeah. All right, we're going to play Aerod Drrome. You may play cards of strength three or less to non-matching theaters. What? Mhm. Mhm. Maybe I should withdraw. I don't like that card. Okay. Um I'm going to play transport.

You may move one of your um cards to a different theater. I'm going to move this one over here. Oh, it stays face up. Yes. Yeah. It just says you may move one of your cards to a different theater. Okay. Okay. I'm going to concede the air to you. I see. [Music] Don't like that. Okay, we'll just do um I believe if I were to maneuver here, flip an uncovered card in an adjacent theater.

[Music] In this adjacent theater, correct? You have this uncovered card. That's right. And I will flip it. And now if any player plays a face down card, destroy that card. Wow. Wait, wait, but you didn't play it. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on. You may move one of your cards to a different theater. Oh, hold on.

Hold on. Yeah, I can do this. Flip an uncovered card in an adjacent theater because I have a drrome. I can play strength three or less to non-matching theaters and I will flip heavy bombers. Dang it. Wow. Yeah. Okay. So if I Oh man, that's nice play. Thanks. Well played. Okay. Um I'm going to play Don't look at your card.

I get to see your card. That hurts. Um I'm going to play maneuver. Flip an uncovered card in an adjacent theater. So this one comes back already. Okay. Heavy bombers, baby. Okay. Okay. I like that. In order to not look at Ruel's cards on the monitor, Becca took her head off the screen. Oh, no. Did you know you were doing that?

I could see that from your hand. Oh, my bad. I'm just going to go ahead and get some cover fire going in land. Okay. Um, yeah. Uh, it's just basically four. All cards covered by this card are now strength four. Okay. Um, I'm going to ambush flip any uncovered card. So, let's flip this one. Yeah. I can't believe you do that to me.

Okay. 7 8 N. Withdrawing is always an option, my friend. Always an option. Always an option. Okay. Well, I'm going to go ahead and leave the game at any time. Throw in some heavy tanks here in the land. Okay. Um Yeah. Looks like you've got the sea. I've got the air. It's all up to the land. Um, I'm going to play this one.

Redeploy. You may return one of your face down cards to your hand if you do play a card. So, I'm going to return this one to my hand. Uhhuh. And hey, I'm going to play a card. Oh, this wasn't what I wanted to do anyways. Air drop. Next time I play a card, you may play it to a non-matching theater. Okay.

I'm going to play my final card, support to the sea, because I still have a drrome. So, my level one card could go to a non-matching theater. And I will add three strength in each adjacent theater. So I have eight 9 10 11 versus your 7 8 9. Nice. And I got air. So you got two of the three. You win. So you get Oh, well you got you win this battle.

Uh which is worth I have no cards in my hand. It's six points. Wow. I'm at nine. You're at nine. I'm at six. Okay. This will probably It's down to this. It's down to this. This is it. How we doing on time? Okay. We're all Yeah. On time. Um first player, Becca. Second player me. If you could do the old um conveyor belt action with the theaters, please.

That was a good sounding that was nice sounding. That was anti. There was a question in chat and I wasn't quite sure on the answers. Do you make those noises when you play games off camera? Pickle ball. Yes. Uh when I serve, I have to go. If I don't do it, it doesn't land in the box. That's just a fact.

Six. Six. Also, uh, new purchase. I'm most excited about pickle ball shoes. I got pickle ball shoes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Am I going to win? Tell me right now. Uh, you got nine. I've got six. You're really close. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Ah. Ah, what if your cards do Oh my gosh. Okay. I don't think that's going to help me.

I don't I should keep my cards. No. Jason. Okay. Hey, this just is going to try pickle ball for the first time this Saturday. Nice. I'm so happy for you. Pickle ball's the best. Best, best, best. Gosh, none of these make sense. We're just gonna super battleship at the sea. Oh boy. Okay. Okay. Super battleship.

Um, pickle ball will change your life. I'll play this one for two. Wait, what is this? Yeah, I don't need this. Okay. Your blood on the clock tower friend recruited you to play pickle ball. Is that my new best friend? That was my phone. Don't worry about it. It's fine. What was that? Nope. I don't know.

Okay. You played a face down to land. Okay. Okay. Okay. And what uh areas are you trying to win this time? Um two of the three. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. You got to try it. You got to try to get your opponent to tell themsself. It's always worth a try. I love it. Yeah, I love it. Okay, I think. Do I dare? No.

No. No. You know what? I don't know if I can't wait to see what you play. Becca's starting to see the combos. Yeah, you just got to look. Well, that last round, Dad. That last round was killer. I probably should have withdrawn sooner last round. I knew I was in trouble. I'm going to live on the edge.

Ooh, living on the edge. I'm going to transport and I'm going to move one of my cards to a different theater. What? Super battleship is going to the air. Wow. Really? Okay. I don't know what's in your hand. Okay. Well, in that case, let's do um we'll do the blockade. If any player plays a card to an adjacent theater occupied by at least three other cards, destroy it.

Okay. And occupied by three means between you and I. Correct. If any player plays a card to an adjacent theater occupied by at least three cards. Yeah. So, the third card would be destroyed. So, it would be the fourth fourth card. Fourth card. Fourth card. Okay. Um, well, I'm not crazy about that. So, I'm going to maneuver and I'm going to flip an uncovered card in an adjacent theater, which is blockade.

Oh, what? Boom. Okay. Well, in that case, ah. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. Okay. Let's do this, Becca. We're going to play redeploy. You may return one of your face down cards to your hand. If you do, play a card. No. Hey, guess what's coming out? No. You know what? No, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do something different.

Okay. I'm going to play maneuver. Flip an uncover card in an adjacent theater. This one. Uh-huh. And this says, "Draw one card and place it face down to an adjacent theater." So, we're going to go here. Okay. He's in the air. We got the six. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We're good. We're good. Are we? Uh, I don't know.

We're going to find out. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Chat, once again, we're sideboarding over here. I'm very scared for whatever's there. And for when it's pretty pretty much a simple card game, there's a bit more to it. I'm freaking out. Yeah, they I guess they call these lane battlers. Oh, is that one?

Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Like I said, we had a lot of fun playing Compile. The main difference between this one and Compile, uh, asymmetrical decks in Compile. Oh, okay. So, you you pick your two factions that you're going to represent and you mash their decks together and they're different. Got it?

This might freaking blow up in my face, but I know you have that C card. Yeah, that is about to limit how many land cards can be played. So, I will disrupt and it's power five. Starting with you, both players choose and flip one of their uncovered cards. I will flip transport. Oh, um uncovered. So, it could be any.

You don't know. It came from the pile. Yeah. I'm going to uncover this ambush. Flip any uncovered card. Uh let's flip that one. That is what you should have done. Yeah. Yeah, that's good for you. Oh, interesting. Okay. Uh so it's my turn now. Yeah. Okay. So we will go with that blockade. So if you play a card now here, it's going to get destroyed.

Same with you. Yeah. So the C is yours and you have two cards left. Yes. H you have two card. Oh, let's go down to the wire. Okay, feel good about this. I'm going to play face down air. I don't like that play. That means you have something that's going to trick me into letting you turn over that card.

Well, why don't I do this? I'm going to play a dome drone. So, I may play cards strength three or less to nonadjacent theaters. Okay. Heavy bombers. I've got 10 in the air. What are you? So, in this one, maneuver. I don't think I Hey, Becca, do you uh like this game? Are you invested in this game? What did you say?

7 8 9 flipping uncovered card in adjacent theater. That doesn't do anything. Are you going to flip it? Yeah, but it's not going to I still lose. Okay. Well, okay. You lose by less. But let's see. So, I had this one here. You add that one there and you add that one there. Um, so you get I have zero cards in my hand.

Therefore, you get six points equal. Wait, wait, wait, wait. There we go. The G. Wait in camera. No, right there. Becca. She's so wiggly. We did it. We did it, y'all. Yeah. So, that is Critters at War. The air land and sea of the nation 100. Just kidding. I felt nothing. So your critters were the were the warriorest.

I guess that's the term. I don't know. You win. Game is mind melting. Yeah. For like a simple card game, right? It's so simple. You have six cards, but you kind of got to one there's certain element that you can't control what your opponent's going to play, but you have to strategize where every card is going to go at the beginning of the hand.

Yeah. Yeah. And again, as you saw, things change quickly. like just the cards that I play all of a sudden affect you and yeah, I was surprised by this one. I really enjoyed it. I was so wiggly and that's how you know I'm invested. All right. All right. I think we did it. I think we did it. That's it for uh today's show, folks.

Uh thanks again for joining us. Uh be sure to check out that Kickstarter. Uh folks, we have got almost 1500 backers. I'd love to see a full season of uh Good Time on the Clock Tower. I know y'all would too. So check that out. Um, other things of note, uh, be sure to sign up for our newsletter. Um, Discord, um, what else?

Where are you going this weekend? Oh, this weekend I'm going to Wonder Con, folks. Come out and see me down in Anaheim, California. I'll be hosting a Kickstarter panel there, and I'll be there Friday and probably Sunday, uh, Saturday. Um, I've got plans. Um, uh, which is Disneyland, I imagine. Uh, the Dodger game.

Oh, one in the same. The 2024 World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers start their home season, home opener tomorrow. Michelle and I are going. This is going to be a great weekend for you. I'm going to three Dodgers games this weekend. Third, tomorrow, Saturday, and Monday. So, it's an extended weekend. I'm very happy for you.

I'm super excited. Uh, also, I've got a bunch of videos. Uh, come on over and check out my videos for Good Puppers 2, Pirates of the High Tease, Widgets Workshop, and Point Galaxies. Oh my gosh, you've been busy. I've been super busy. Those are all games right now on uh Kickstarter or Backer Kit. So, come on over if you want to check out my videos.

And I think that's all I've got. We popped the Twitch in, but um your YouTube is also your name. Yes. YouTube.com Yeah. Thank you. Um and you can find all my videos there. Uh all four games I can legit say. Uh they're wonderful. Really great games. There's some good stuff coming out. They're all different, too.

So, be sure to check that out. Um anything else, Becca, that we got to talk about? I think we just got to tell them what they need to know. What do they need to know? Play some games, will you?