btw over the last few weeks I've been trying to give our generals a certain identity or recognition value using the same formular for the different OP pics. Colorful character front and center, bold text behind them always using the same typeface and large and colorful enough to be easily seen while scrolling the catalog, and in the background a black&white image of a board game. Let me know if you have some feedback or if you enjoy the presentation.

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https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2026/04/24/cmon-invests-2-1m-in-nft-video-game-maker-says-digital-shift-needed-to-expand-revenue-remain-relevant/

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>97938474
>NFT video game maker

What does that even mean?

>>97938431
I appreciate the effort but I don't really care, I'll look at the thumbnail for splitseconds. Fun TQs and actually having /bgg/ in the title is way more important to me

>>97938516
That's fair.

>>97938474
i thought they were going bankrupt? where did they find the 2.1mil for NFT gaming, and how much of that will their kickstarter backers see in refunds?

>>97938431
I don't particularly like it but I'll never make an OP myself and truly the image is just a thing you need and I completely forget about it once I have the thread bookmarked. So thank you for continuing to make them.

>>97938474
If we are lucky this is the thing that makes them go bankrupt.

>>97938490
NFTs, or Non Fungible Tokens, are the latest ingenious device by which the rich get richer and the poor are fed lies like pigs get fed slop.
an NFT video game, is a videogame that incorporates NFTs into the core mechanics. Sometimes played entirely on the blockchain, but usually the NFTs just give access to whatever item they represent in a completely separate executable. See also Axie Infinity and how the silly pokemon meets slay the spire clone was almost immediately turned into 28 hour per day wageslaving for below minimum wage "but its ok because the poor people in Indonesia can afford an extra sandwich" or whatever. It's quite stupid and other NFT games somehow are stupider.
to be the NFT game maker, then, is to hold absolute power in the chain of taxation that is the NFT game, as you will take a cut from every sale, trade, and so on.

tl;dr: they wanna be like Valve and their Steam Community Market but with less effort and more fancy sounding words to put on their resumes.

>>97938474
Cardboard $200
Wood cubes $150
Gametesting $800
NFT video game maker $2.1 million
Advertising $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my board game company is dying

>>97938837
You can skip the gametesting part if you can get enough board game youtubers to shill for you

>>97938474
Oh my
>Be low 7 figures in debt (iirc)
>Sell off IPs, running KS etc. to pay off debtors
>Before even near recovery, invest +2 million in fucking etfs
How is this not negligence, it is more ore less transparently transitioning into becoming a full scam company

>>97937909
Thanks. I will get this one and Deckers. btw aren’t the expansions supposed to be hard to get or something? Or are they still in print?

>>97938837
I'llbe your consultant. You should use thinner cardboard and more plastic. Also skip playtesting entirely.

That'd be 30k please

I remember when I wanted New Angeles so bad but then I realized no one in my group would understand it. I'm not sure I would either. BG is suffering!

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>>97939085
At least one third of the games I own are lucky to get played once a year, because most people I get to play games with can't handle the complexity. Complex games are so fucking good though, I can't break free from them. I'm starting to 2-hand games that don't even have solo modes just to experience the gameplay systems.

>>97939099
Right, I get that. I have a couple of games I could play solo but ik that's never going to scratch the itch. Trying to get my friend to play RftG right now and he just doesn't have the time. And RftG is pretty simple. I can't imagine trying to get something more complex going.

What's the best way to get all the non-kingdon dominion cards (landmarks, events, ways, etc.) for free?
My storage solution is full and I only have enough room for like another 100 cards, so the expansions are out, but I could fit those cards in and they'd add a lot of variety

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>>97939125
>Root collects dust
>War for Arrakis collects dust
>Kemet collects dust
>Railways of the world collects dust
>Caylus collects dust
>Dune imperium collects dust
>Agricola collects dust
>Red Cathedral collects dust
>Rococo collects dust
>Cosmic encounter collects dust
>Ahoy collects dust
>Arcs collects dust

>>97938367
>what's your favorite light/elegant game that still offers some nice depth or crunchiness?
Light-weight rules, lots of strategy? Friedrich.

>which IP is long overdue to be represented in our hobby?
Sports themed games. Lords of Baseball was a step in the right direction but the Venn diagram between sports lovers and gamers seems to only include stratomatic players. If you wanted to make an easy million dollars, creating a board game that interacts with live sporting events would be the ticket. Case in point - look how many people are breaking out Ready, Set, Bet for their Kentucky Derby parties?

>what are you gonna play this weekend?
Arkham Horror LCG and Toy Battle.

>>97939143
Now I'm jumping off a bridge.

>>97939197
Why?

>>97939243
I hath been demoralized.

>>97939253
Aww. Sorry...
I should buy the steam version of Dune Imperium and invite /bgg/ members to play

>>97938367
>>what's your favorite light/elegant game that still offers some nice depth or crunchiness?
I am interpreting light as weight and going with Mottainai.
>>which IP is long overdue to be represented in our hobby?
Where are my buddhist or hindu doam games at?
>>what are you gonna play this weekend?
Looking like Pax Ren, Indonesia, probably something solo mixed in too.

The following games are mid at best, fight me if you dare...
Concordia
Lost ruins of arnak
Race for the Galaxy
Roll for the Galaxy
Marco Polo 1 and 2
Keyflower
Splendor
Clank
Wingspan
Sky team
Scythe
Viticulture
Heat
Flame rogue
7 Wonders
Azul
Kingdomino
Isle of skye
Pandemic
Radlands
Maracaibo
The resistance

>>97940040
I like maracaibo a lot but realize it's kinda sloppy, but RftG is an utterly brilliant design. The resistence is just meh because its iterations are better.
Keyflower and Concordia are very good but I personally don't enjoy them all that much. So essentially I agree on all but Race

Pretty lukewarm take tbqh

>>97940040
agree:
>Wingspan
>7 Wonders
>Azul
>Pandemic

disagree:
>Concordia
>Race for the Galaxy
>Clank
>Sky team
>Heat
>Kingdomino

also have a feeling you haven't played all these enough to have a strong grasp on them

>>97940040
Nah. As the saying goes
>you dont have to accept every invitation to a fight

>>97940040
>>97940073
yes RftG is the wrongest

>>97940082
>disagree:
>>Concordia
Look at me, I'm a game about trading in the Mediterranean with absolutely no trading and static market prices.
>>Race for the Galaxy
Look at me, I have terrible iconography and no meaningful player interaction
>>Clank
Look at me, I have 53 cards in my deck by the end of this deck building game and that's why I won
>>Sky team
Look at me, another co-op game where I'm not allowed to talk to someone who's sitting 3 feet away IRL, and who would be 2 feet away in a pilot/copilot situation
>>Heat
Look at me, I make heat the central aspect of racing, when it was not even a top 10 factor in actual racing
>>Kingdomino
Look at me, I had the foresight to put my grass on this side of the map, and my water over yonder

>>97940133
>Race for the Galaxy
>Look at me, I have terrible iconography
Genuinely don't see this point brought up by anyone but brainlets. When the game came out it was way heavier in comparison to other games than now, and "it's more complicated than I expected' became "the iconography is terrible" which wasn't true then and isn't true now.

Inb4 someome posts alien diplomats

>>97940154
The iconography isn't even a game breaker, it's just a stupid choice. My main gripe is the lack of player interaction, and how badly innovation mogs it.

>>97938968
spirit island is in a weird place because the publisher recently went under kind of. lots of the expansions are still on amazon right now though

>>97940185
Weird you say that and then namedrop counting icons: the game
But it's very true that innovation is massively more interactive than race and has a similar lots of cool paths to take vibe.

I need to play innovation in person, I've tried it a few times on bga and while there is clearly something it never captured me like race did.

Which ashes reborn bots are the most fun to build against and face off with repeatedly?

>>97938474
It continuously baffles me how boardgame players and companies can make such retarded economic choices.

We are constantly playing with toy economic models, we have no excuse to make these batshit insane choices.

>>97940133
Concordia is not about trading
Race is not about player interaction, and definitely isnt the wirst at iconography.
Yes thats why you won in Clank
Yes thats what makes Sky Team/silent co-op a challenge.
Yes sone boardgame mechanics are abstract and disjointed from thier theme
Yes some games you just win by luck.

Do you actually like boardgames? They won't all be the same, and it sounds like none of them fit the one game you want.

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My offer to just show up on a weekend to play boardgames of your choice at your LGS still stands. I'm not a serial killer, I do not want your organs.

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I don't normally do this, but I'm excited for thos one
What's in the box, anons?
>Sets matched give great strength
>Machinations on a map
>Tides shaped by darkness

I got a large deck in a deckbuilding game, and I... le won?

>>97940723
Mistborn the Card game?
Or is it the new Root stuff?

>>97940647
I said those games were mid at best, not necessarily bad
Most games are average by statistical law
Concordia is thematically an economic game, whether it's "trading" or "producing and exchanging/spending goods" is the same thing. The scoring system sounds good at first glance, but it really doesn't work as intended most of the time. Navegador, another gerdts game, did economics/markets/rondel function better, and the scoring is more straightforward, so people can play more intentionally.

I like plenty of games, my top 5, at least today, are...
Age of Steam (Montreal is my favorite map)
Hansa Teutonica
Babylonia
Sekigahara
Ra

>>97940728
>laughs in multiple deck builders
I see your last shitpost did not get much traction, so here is my pity (you)

>>97940688
How does this compare to courtier?

>>97940723
>200 count
A lot of TCG packs?

>>97938431
Thank you anon. I don't really buy or play board games anymore so it gives me something to collect and consume so I feel right at home.

I got some really wicked gas from eating some pea soup. How do I gamify this?

>>97938431
I don't feel connected to them but I'm already here. If people recognize the squid head blue guy from a board game and go "oh yes this is the thread for board games" that's great but I don't. Doesn't seem very universal I guess is what I'm saying.

>>97940915
I guess find a girl who likes it
When I expect a successful conquest, I make the girl a dinner with ribeye and asparagus or brussel sprouts. As long as she's in bed and asleep 4-5 hours later, I can duck under the covers and inhale during her peak gas production

>>97940688
no offense but this is easily achieved locally, if I wanted to meet a 40yo 4channer I'd be on /soc/

>>97939143
root, agricola and cosmic encounter deserve to be collecting rotten banana peels, old cat food cans and coffee grounds.

>>97940040
>Race for the Galaxy
mid
>Roll for the Galaxy
mid but a great entry level engaging game for meets with new people and new to boardgame people
>Keyflower
better than mid
>Splendor
trash
>Clank
erm, it's Clank!
>Wingspan
$45 for birbs?! very mid, endgame is just lay a bunch of eggs
>Scythe
fucking garbage
>Viticulture
mid, would be a great euro if the visitor cards didn't wag the dog
>Flame rogue
it's no downforce, I mean it's no the quest for el dorado, I mean it's no FULL THROTTLE but it's okay
>7 Wonders
another excellent game for new people that goes hard with an experienced group
>Azul
granny trash, it's cribbage tier
>Kingdomino
oh I fucking hate kingdomino, can't say if it's mid
>Pandemic
Forbidden Island did it better, pandemic is barely above monopoly nowhere near mid

>>97940084
nobody ever said that dumbass

>>97940740
It's a lightweight, draft into area control. Only longer than Courtier due to a triangular growing turn length.

>>97941010
>this is easily achieved locally
Yes.
I travel for work.
Local is a huge range for me.

>>97941026
Say what you will about Root and Cosmic encounter, but Agricola is actual kino and you're filtered

>>97940988
It's really painful. The gas. It hurts bad man.

>>97941065
Cribbage has been around since the 1600s for a reason. It's a great game. In my opinion it's the greatest two player game ever made. It rewards skill but is still enjoyable for the weaker player. It adapts to larger player counts without much fuss. Has had solo modes since before either of was born. The discard strategy and pegging tactics are much deeper than most people realize. The community is massive. You only need a deck of cards. It's short enough to play on break. Calling it a grandma game is selling it short when it's been a naval staple since the golden age of piracy. The roughest trappers and pioneers you can imagine would have been pegging each other all night long over this game board. I won't take this lying down.

>>97941453
Based cribbage defender.

>>97941453
Popularity doesn't mean a game is good.

>>97940723
Arcs?

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>>97941491
>>97941065
Happiest Hex and Counter gamer btw

how do i play cribbage?
how do i play mushroom sort?

>>97941729
have you tried reading the rules

>>97941729
Damn if only there was some kind of easily accessible network containing the collected knowledge of mankind

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>>97940734
Nope.
As an aside, I'm afraid I have a soft spot for Root (not that I disagree with a lot of the shit anons fling at it). But I love frogs. And the frogs feel unfroggy to me and I was disappointed.
This game doesnt involve mist either but things in this game are obscure, shadowy, even
>>97940746
Jesus no anon. When I (rarely) do I only buy singles. It's not a whole box of singles.
A neat single card can tell a whole story. Like the card that shows what happened to Emrakul. What a way to go!
>>97941520
No; I'm cautiously curious in Arcs, but the cutesy theme carries a lot less weight for me in space than it does inna woods.
For space settings, criminal enterprise too, I suppose, I prefer a grittier style.