With the release of the first expansion “Roads of Fortune”, I’m bringing Foundation of Rome more regularly back to the table and am once again realising: the official solo mode “Gardens of Ceres” still isn’t that appealing to me. Before designing a completely new automa, I wanted to give Ceres a few more tries and …
I recently picked up a copy of Splotter’s Indonesia but faced a similar problem to when I got Horseless Carriage: I’m super intrigued but have a hard time to get this to the table with my group of friends. It’s got a long play time, requires repeated plays, graphics are … well … “Splotter-esque”. So …
Redwood is a super cute select-pattern-and-move game about photographing animals. The solo scenarios that come in the box didn’t feel that exciting to me though, so here is my attempt at an alternate solo mode. It can also be used to spice up the competition with low player counts. I’ll update this post as I …
I was quite disappointed to realise Last Light has no solo mode, so I started creating my own. It’s still under development, but today it produced the first session where it seemed competitive and actually created some nice battles. I’m mainly aiming for full support of all rules/techs/factions, no extra components, and ease of use. …
For me, the the only flaw the excellent Horseless Carriage has is that my friends won’t play it nearly often enough with me! So I designed an automa that can be used both for solo play as well as a third when playing with two players. There are still some elements that need tweaking and …