Spiel recap - Day 1
Day 1 is over. Sleep levels are low, but we are ready for Friday. 💪
We started off Thursday strong with a 90 minute demo of Sankoré! It's quite a complex game with an indirect way of taking actions (teaching students classes, but only if you have the right colored meeple in position). The 4 main areas of the game all need different resources and produce some other resource, so you might need to do a little bit of everything. These 4 areas also have different majority scorings triggering, and a central library decides what discipline will be worth the most points at the end. Not easy to grasp at first!
We then picked up some games we pre-ordered, and also paid a visit to the awesome people at @tablescope . Light Speed: Arena went through some design iterations and now it looks and plays better than ever! For a dose of fun it's definitely worth a visit at 2B133. ☺️
We also got a sneak-peek at Windmill Valley over at @boardanddice ! It's an upcoming less-complex game coming from Dani Garcia, who also did the brilliant Barcelona! You use a clever way of selecting actions with windmill cogs that you rotate (and upgrade over the game), build windmills on the board to trigger adjacent bonuses, and you can also get contracts and tulips for set collection. There is a bunch of things going on, and the game has a delightful colorful look, making us excited for the game's release. 😁
We couldn't miss the @kapplex.de booth either to visit Alex, and look at the beautiful board game tables. 🤩 A new model will be introduced which will have a Gamefound campaign: the Maxim Premium.
Additionally we had the pleasure to get more sneak peeks at two of the new releases, Zhanguo: The First Empire form @sorrywearefrench , and ArcheOlogic from @ludonaute.games . We have to play these soon!
We also bumped into a bunch of cool people, which is always a highlight every day! 😊
Hanna @hedgehogplacement , Phil and Sarah @the_hop_meeple , Grzegorz @brodatyboardgames .
Even though we were really tired in the evening, we managed to try some of our smaller new games: Faraway, Rubber-Paper-Sciccors and Chomp. 🙃
All-in-all an amazing day!
