1 Player Podcast

Episode 65.  In this show I talk about the game Hooyah:  The Navy Seals Card Game.  This is a light co-op game for 1-4 players in which you are trying to complete a covert mission, Ticket to Ride style.  Hooyah is published by US Games.  I also look at the upcoming Essen releases.

This is the episode on global economics.   I look at Global Mogul designed by Bill Crenshaw and published by Mayfair games.  This is a worker placement/area control game in which players are making investments and producing goods to fulfill contracts.  This game supports 1-4 players.

This latest episode is on Print and Play games.  I look at two things specifically, which includes a LOT of games....

This "week" I look at the game Duel in the Dark.  This is a two player game with a solo variant build in.  It is set in WWII Europe.  British bombers are attacking your German cities and you need to defend them from the onslaught.  In this weird game, victory points are gained when other side moves into your space.

In this episode I very quickly look at using Rory's Story Cubes for solo RPG gaming.  I also spend some time talking with A.J. Porfirio about Hostage Negotiator which is just now on Kickstarter.

In this BIGGEST episode yet, I have a discussion on the 2014 solitaire PnP design contest with Chris Hansen & Todd Sanders.  This was originally recorded as a Google Hangounts conversation and the video can be watched on YouTube.

Alas, I am no expert and I had audio issues.  Hopefully they don't distract from your enjoyment too much.  Contrary to the appearances, I am not chewing tabacco. 

This episode is on a cool deck building/area control game, Asgard's Chosen.  This is a really neat hybrid that takes the best of both worlds and combines them into a fun game, albeit hard to learn, game.  I also finally, way belatedly, announce the winners of the 1 Player Awards.  However, if you follow the 1 Player Guild, and you should, this is all old news.

In this latest episode, I look at the game of Nations, a card drafting, resource management, worker placement kind of game.  I also get to talk to one of the designers, Rustan Håkansson, one of the designers of the game.  Nations is a big game and this is a big episode to go along with it!

Welcome back to the 1 Player podcast.  I unexpectedly took a vacation from podcasting for the last few weeks so I've stayed busy and have a lot of fun playing Thunderstone Advance. This is a great dungeon crawling, deck building game for 1 to 4 players  The game is a sequel to Thunderstone with streamlined rules, however it is compatible with the original game so you can get even more cards to play with now, if you have the original.

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Today's episode is all about Hermann Luttman.  First I have a great discussion with Hermann about some of his solitaire designs.  Then I look at his latest solo game, A Spoiled Victory: Dunkirk 1940. Enough said.. on with the show!

The latest episode of the show is on Free Trader, a print and play game about travelling through space and hauling goods.  This neat little card game uses a card driven mechanic to control a lot of the flow of the game.  I take a brief look at the mechanic and how it is used in a few different games, focusing on the evolving complexity as you go from game to game.

Welcome to the latest episode. This show, I look at the game Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island by Ignacy Trzewiczek.  This is a co-operative worker placement game in which your character is stuck on an island somewhere and have to work to survive.  This is a BIG game and there is a lot to say about it... fortunately I keep it brief.

This episode is on the new game by Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc. The game is a cooperative/solo game on the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.  However, this game is really just a variant of the classic solitaire card game which I just remembered is sometimes called Klondike...doh!  Anyway, as I said, it is just a variant, but one that I found made the game MUCH better than the original.  The theme and mechanics work very very well together and make this game much more than the sum of its parts.

This is a game I've been wanting to talk about for a long time.  I finally got it out and played it solo again, in part because of the relatively new (as of last September) SoloPlay variant.  But not only do I play that variant, I also try out three solitaire specific maps and have a lot of fun with it.