The Games Andy Looney Is Playing - August 23rd, 2007
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01:46 am
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Game Report: Andy vs. Everybody at GenCon
I did 3 sessions of Andy Vs. Everybody at GenCon, each about 2 hours long and with around 20 opponents and a typical average of 7 games at once. Here are the grand totals:
- Treehouse: me: 8, Everybody: 22
- Fluxx: me: 3, Everybody: 19
- Zombie Fluxx: me: 2, Everybody: 11
- EcoFluxx: me: 1, Everybody: 2
- Family Fluxx: me: 0, Everybody: 1
- Fluxx Espanol: me: 0, Everybody: 1
- Chrononauts: me: 1, Everybody: 7, Universe Ended: 1
- EAC: me: 3, Everybody: 0
- Binary Homeworlds: me: 2, Everybody: 0
- Martian Chess: me: 2, Everybody: 2
- Volcano: me: 5, Everybody: 6
- Aquarius: me: 1, Everybody: 5
- Martian Coasters: me: 3, Everybody: 2
Overall that comes to 31 wins for me, and 78 wins for Everybody. Not quite up to my usual average of 33%, but not bad considering how much people were ganging up on me. :-)
Special thanks to Robin and to Sam Zitin for helping me out as scorekeeper/assistant player during these sessions!
Current Location: Wunderland.Earth
Current Music: Fahrenheit 451 soundtrack music
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05:00 am
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Game Report: Other Games at GenCon
Days 2, 3, & 4 of GenCon passed in a blur of games, meals between games, games during meals, discussions of games, moderating of games, and occasional hours of sleep. Each day in the booth was spent teaching people either Treehouse, Zombie Fluxx or something in between, and each night after playing against Everybody I helped run late-night sessions of Werewolf hunting, sometimes featuring as many as 7 villages of 15 people each.
In the booth I played many games of Zombie Fluxx, several games of regular Fluxx, many games of Treehouse, and a few other games using pyramids. For awhile I was trying to keep track, but I've lost count, there were too many and sometimes games got interrupted (or I had to drop out) making them hard to record.
As for the Werewolf hunting, I actually only played twice, but both games were memorable. I was the Seer in one, and was a winner along with Russell. As for the other game, I survived until there were just 3 of us, then lost to a 12-year old girl named Alex whom I totally didn't believe was the werewolf.
Lastly, during the drive home, the four of us still hadn't played enough games of Treehouse, and played 4 more times over dinner at Ruby Tuesday's. I won twice!
Current Location: Wunderland.Earth
Current Music: Myst soundtrack
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05:03 am
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Game Report: Icebreaker 2
Upon returning from GenCon, I found in the mail my official free copy of the just-released Icebreaker 2, so of course I had to play a few ceremonial games using an actual release CD.
(In case you don't know what I'm talking about, Icebreaker 2 is a sequel to a videogame I designed for the 3DO gaming system in 1996 but which was never published. For ten years I assumed it would never even be possible to release it, but then a company called OlderGames broke the 3DO encryption and offered to publish my carefully-saved, almost-finished final work-in-progress for the original platform it was intended to run on. And now it's here! And if you've got an old 3DO Multiplayer, you can get it too!)
So it was quite a thrill to finally put a real, published 3DO disc (complete with a cool looking label) into my dusty old 3DO player and experience again the addictive thrill of attempting to destroy all pyramids. I started by trying to beat the infamous level 53 at the next difficulty setting but soon gave up, moving on to another nasty level, #58, called Release the Hounds. I couldn't conquer it, either... the best I was able to get it down to so far was 15 pyramids.
Current Location: Wunderland.Earth
Current Music: Rapa Nui movie soundtrack music
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05:21 am
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Game Report: ICE-11
So in the wee small hours of the morning yesterday I had the beginnings of an idea for a new Icehouse game, which will uses a Treehouse set and is played upon a 3x3 grid. I noodled on it during the day, and last night I playtested it several times with Kristin and Alison. I changed the rules a few times as we went, and I probably still have some bugs to work out, but I'm quite pleased with how it's shaping up so far!
The name is just a placeholder; this will be my 11th Icehouse game.
Current Location: Wunderland.Earth
Current Music: music from an old video of computer animation
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