Games and Comics
May. 23rd, 2025 02:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI played two new games yesterday and also read a whole comic book on the way home.
Potion Explosion:
This is a fun game where there's a display of different coloured marbles in tracks on a cardboard stand and you have to collect marbles of the right colours in the right combinations to brew potions, which then give you abilities that help you collect the right marbles for the next potion, etc...
It was all about visualising how the marbles would change position once you removed some, and then figuring out how to combine the various abilities you'd accumulated to maximise collecting the right combinations.
Definitely a game that played to my strengths - we played it twice and I won both times by quite a big margin. But I had no idea while playing how I was doing compared to anyone else and was very surprised by my victories - so I think I would have enjoyed it just as much, even if I hadn't won.
Jaws:
We also played the Jaws board game, which was fun in aspects but not in others.
Three of us played characters from the film, while one player took on the role of the shark.
In the first part of the game, the crew was trying to save swimmers, close beaches, deploy ways to locate the shark and generally prevent the beast from doing too much damage.
We failed spectacularly and the second part of the game was triggered by the shark eating the maximum number of swimmers, rather than by us successfully locating it twice...
I quite enjoyed this section, though, as there were lots of options for what to do and it was fun trying to figure out where the shark might be at any given time and act accordingly.
In the second half, we were out on a boat in the water and the shark kept surfacing to attack us, while we tried to predict where it would come up and attack it back.
This section was less fun, as it felt like the odds were stacked very highly in the shark's favour and there was little we could do to damage it, even if we could figure out where it was going to be.
We all died...
Stranger Planet by Nathan Pyle:
I was left without a book to read on the way home so I read this comic book on my phone. I know there’s controversy about some of the author's views but I’m not going to talk about that here. I really enjoyed the first volume and the TV show based on the comics, and this was very much more of the same. I love the beings and the way they talk – plus how very relatable some of their situations and attitudes are. I had to interrupt the podcast Dave was listening to multiple times to show him pages of the book that reminded me of him or of us together. Largely very sweet and very funny – a good way to pass a journey when I didn’t have a physical book to read.
Potion Explosion:
This is a fun game where there's a display of different coloured marbles in tracks on a cardboard stand and you have to collect marbles of the right colours in the right combinations to brew potions, which then give you abilities that help you collect the right marbles for the next potion, etc...
It was all about visualising how the marbles would change position once you removed some, and then figuring out how to combine the various abilities you'd accumulated to maximise collecting the right combinations.
Definitely a game that played to my strengths - we played it twice and I won both times by quite a big margin. But I had no idea while playing how I was doing compared to anyone else and was very surprised by my victories - so I think I would have enjoyed it just as much, even if I hadn't won.
Jaws:
We also played the Jaws board game, which was fun in aspects but not in others.
Three of us played characters from the film, while one player took on the role of the shark.
In the first part of the game, the crew was trying to save swimmers, close beaches, deploy ways to locate the shark and generally prevent the beast from doing too much damage.
We failed spectacularly and the second part of the game was triggered by the shark eating the maximum number of swimmers, rather than by us successfully locating it twice...
I quite enjoyed this section, though, as there were lots of options for what to do and it was fun trying to figure out where the shark might be at any given time and act accordingly.
In the second half, we were out on a boat in the water and the shark kept surfacing to attack us, while we tried to predict where it would come up and attack it back.
This section was less fun, as it felt like the odds were stacked very highly in the shark's favour and there was little we could do to damage it, even if we could figure out where it was going to be.
We all died...
Stranger Planet by Nathan Pyle:
I was left without a book to read on the way home so I read this comic book on my phone. I know there’s controversy about some of the author's views but I’m not going to talk about that here. I really enjoyed the first volume and the TV show based on the comics, and this was very much more of the same. I love the beings and the way they talk – plus how very relatable some of their situations and attitudes are. I had to interrupt the podcast Dave was listening to multiple times to show him pages of the book that reminded me of him or of us together. Largely very sweet and very funny – a good way to pass a journey when I didn’t have a physical book to read.
