JR Plays: Recent Episodes
JR Honeycutt
My thoughts about the board games I play each week, from the perspective of a husband, gaming community organizer, and game designer.
This week I played The Networks, Mexica, more Mechs vs. Minions, a bunch of party games, and jumped back into mobile gaming with the Star Realms iOS app!
Light spoilers! Mechs vs. Minions and Charterstone both begin by immediately unlocking content, so anything you hear is technically a spoiler. If you're ok with knowing just a little bit about each, go ahead!
I spent the weekend at the Stonemaier Games Design Day in St. Louis, and got in gaming with Cody from Waitress Games and our friend Melissa. Lots of new stuff, including a long talk about Secret Hitler - as a game, as an experience, and as it's compared to The Resistance.
Thanks to Josh Krow for the new theme music - soundcloud.com/JoshKrow
This week's new game: Via Nebula
This week's old games: SeaFall, Patchwork, Abluxxen, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Codenames, Tak (www.playtak.com)
This week's playtesting: Solium Infernum
New Games: IKI, Potion Explosion, We Didn't Playtest This At All Old Games: Cyclades, San Juan, Innovation, Karuba, Captain Sonar.
A word about Captain Sonar, alpha gaming, and why I'm sometimes a monster.