A continuation of my Star Charter campaign; Game 1, Games 2 to 4 & Games 5 to 8. This post will not show every game, but is more of a highlights reel.
The RWinder has released V1.0 of Star Charter so you can now play for yourself. If you are new to Make as You Play, this game would be a great introduction.
My first outer ring world. It costs 18 to travel from the middle ring to the outer ring. But because I created the hub world of Beaulise in Sector 41.,
A continuation of my Star Charter campaign; Game 1 & Games 2 to 4.
The early deck, containing 2 worlds in each sector, aids in stringing together a longer journey. The ability to discard any extra 0 cost worlds allows you to draw more cards, and I created my first 6 fuel card at the end of this game. (43. Hydarnes is also an Urbanised Mafia planet with Cruel Ships, which is quite evocative.) My exploration of the middle ring means I am creating a lot of hub worlds,
Game 2 of Star Charter played very similar to Game 1 (but I traveled clockwise). At the end things looked like this.
Now, I almost certainly had 3 fuel by the last hand which could have got me out to the middle ring. But I missed the rule about half price fuel when traveling from, or to, a hub world, along a space lane. Or maybe I thought it didn’t count when you first traveled to the hub world. Either way, I played like this, and had an 18 card deck with 12 worlds; 2 in each of
The RWinder has made a new Make as You Play game, called Star Charter. It starts with a hex map of the galaxy, 18 blank cards, and some cubes to track your journey. This combined with some tables to generate worlds, and the objective to “discover” 3 new worlds each game, and you have a very simple game, with limitless scope. They asked for play testers,
I’ve been playing Dragonvale, since it was released in 2011, off and on. And ever since I got heavily into modern board gaming, I’ve been trying to think of a way of combining these two passions. But Dragonvale is very much a game for the long haul; literally played over months and years; collecting dragons as they were added. I could not think of a way to turn that into a 60 minute experience, that you would want to repeat each time you played the game. However my latest return
