1 Player Podcast

Welcome to another episode! This time around, Albert interviews Dennis Furia, the designer of Deck of Wonders, which is on Kickstarter right now.

This game has a nice M:TG feel to it in that you are fighting a battle against an enemy by summoning minions to fight for you.  However, what is really cool here is that this game is designed for solo play and does a very good job of giving you an interesting game experience.

It's on KS right now and worth looking into.

• Deck of Wonders (BGG, Publisher, Kickstarter)
• Tabletop Simulator demo instructions

In the latest episode Albert & Julius discuss the White Dog Games title, Nubia: Egypt's Black Heirs.  This is a States of Siege style game designed by R Ben Madison and quite fun.

Nubia on BGG

Nubia at White Dog Games

In this episode Julius talks about the latest completed Arkham Horror Cycle, the Dream-Eaters (whose name I have trouble getting straight).  This cool campaign takes players to Lovecraft's Dreamlands, though Julius and I will focus our discussion on the waking world, for now and visit the Dreamlands in an upcoming show.

a.k.a., how to play with distractions.  Distractions are annoying regardless the number of players.  It's only really a problem though with solo gaming.  What do you do when your kids or your cat show up?  You panic!

My Lord of the Rings box at YouTube.

In this episode we discuss the draw and write game Cartographers.  A Roll Player game without any rolling!  It does have some fun map-making though.

• Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale (publisher, BGG)

In this 2nd and final episode of the Summer of Uwe, we look at the 2 player game Caverna 2: Cave vs. Cave which includes solitaire rules.  In this cool little worker placement game, you get to build an empire for your clan of dwarves, all in about 30 minutes!

But wait, there's more!  We then talk about the expansion which let's you play for another quick 30 minutes!

In this latest episode, the 1st episode in the "Summer of Uwe", we discuss the Puzzle Trilogy game Spring Meadow. It's a light polyomino laying game in which you are trying to maximize your score while hiking in a meadow and defrosting the ground.

In this episode, probably for the first time ever, we don't review a game - gosh!  Instead, we talk about game art and art in games.  It's a fun conversation and I for one enjoyed it.  However, we do briefly, oh so briefly, talk about solo RPG products.

• 1000 Year Old Vampire (RPG Geek, Publisher)
• Our Innermost Thoughts (KS) by Travis Hill

Rwarrrrr!  In this episode we talk about dinosaur parks in South America.  More specifically, we talk about the game Dinogenics were you can run your own park!

* Dinogenics (BGG, publisher)

In our latest episode, we look at the solo journaling RPG Alone Among the Stars.  It's a neat little game were you write super-short journal entries about your journey through space as you visit planets and see strange new sites.

I posted my session as a blog entry here.

• Alone Among the Stars on itch.io
• itch.io tags
  • solo-rpg
  • singleplayer
  • journaling
• Kickstarter Zine-quest games

In this episode we talk all about cats.  Well, all about the cats of Isle of Cats, a very fun tile laying game by Frank West and published by The City of Games.

• Isle of Cats (Publisher, BGG)
• Isle of Cats (remote edition)
• Online version of game

Wow another podcast!  That's right.. episode 159 is here and this time we talk about the game Fire!  It's a short show for a short shoot-em up based old old video games like Space Invaders.  In fact it looks a whole lot like Space Invaders. Pew! Pew! Pew!

Fire! on BGG

In this episode, Albert & Julius discuss the lovely little legacy game, Charterstone.  Pretty much that's it.

NOTE: THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS!!

Wow another episode in the same year!  We are on a role.  This time around, Albert interviews Lee Broderick, designer of Dwarf, now on Kickstarter.  We have a fun chat about Uwe Rosenberg games and get into a lot of the details about dwarfs (or dwarves).  We get into dwarven details. :)

• Dwarf (BGG, KS)

Wow, it's been a while, huh?  Life is busy lately and there just isn't much time to game, not even solo.  Still, here we are with another episode and this time we cover two games!  Well, both are pretty similar. Actually, both are about the same game with a different setting.

Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure

Clank! In! Space!