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Blamestorm posted:I got JC2e too (also in Canberra) after having mostly forgotten I ordered it. Trying to work out online how well it scales with player count, anyone know if it’s good 2p or needs more people to shine? Captain Theron posted:Yeah, got my copy in Canberra today. Thing is dense and beautiful. Should get to play it tomorrow night, looking forward to being some despicable people! You guys should hit me up for a game some time.
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What are some Movies/Shows about Board Games. I Just watched clue (1985) and Game night is in my list. Also Bolano has a novel about a wargamer WHO becomes obsessed with the Tournament Play of helping nazu Germany win the war. So Hit me Up with book recs too. discount cathouse fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Battleship but uh I have not heard it's good... There's plenty of books with go or chess as the backdrop, of course. That Queens Gambit show I think I heard was decent? Some fun manga/anime about go, mahjong. At least one has a boardgame club which included Irish gauge in one scene.
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The Jumanji franchise has four movies, though only two of them involve board games.
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silvergoose posted:Battleship but uh I have not heard it's good... Battleship was a hoot, in its own trashy way. They even found a justification for calling out the squares. Knight Moves was a half decent 90s thriller aet in and around a chess tournament. Stars Christopher Lambert. And there's a space based version of Jumanji called Zathura, IIRC. Beyond that, I'm coming up blank.
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Beyond the Gates involves a VHS board game like Atmosfear
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Quote-Unquote posted:Beyond the Gates involves a VHS board game like Atmosfear Which begs the question of whether Atmosfear itself would count. Except instead of a game within a movie, it's a movie within a game.
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The family in Ready Or Not made their fortune on board games and their curse/ritual forces them to play a game on wedding nights. It doesn't turn out to be a board game this time, though.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I'm in Sydney and my first Auspost notification only came in yesterday so there wasn't much time between the confirmation and it arriving. Well poo poo, just got my shipping notification a few hours ago! Hell yeah. I'm lucky, in between backing the Kickstarter and it arriving I've found someone else who also backed it and become friends so I've got at least one buddy who's keen to play.
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discount cathouse posted:What are some Movies/Shows about Board Games. I Just watched clue (1985) and Game night is in my list. After School Dice Club is a wholesome manga/anime about playing board games. They play Blokus, Ladies & Gentlemen, Spot It, Cockroach Poker, Marrakech, and a bunch more actual board games. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_School_Dice_Club
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Jedit posted:And there's a space based version of Jumanji called Zathura, IIRC. Sadly, Zathura is the odd child out in quality, too, not just name.
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silvergoose posted:Battleship but uh I have not heard it's good... This, Queens Gambit is great and Battleship is actually good and has multi track drifting I need to catch up to after school dice club. Last time I read it was years ago and it looks like there's been some new chapters recently. What we need, unless it's something that exists that idk about, is nichijou girl/boy version but expressed through board games. Would greatly enjoy seeing shenanigans and plotting for diplomacy, joco, and calculation scenes revolving around euros. Knizia games would be v dramatic Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Is Ouija a board game because there are a couple of movies based on that.
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Mazes and Monsters, based on a "true" story about how DnD was causing youth to believe they live in a fantasy world. There are also a bunch of chess movies like Searching for Bobby Fischer.
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Joe Chill posted:Mazes and Monsters, based on a "true" story about how DnD was causing youth to believe they live in a fantasy world. Starring Tom Hanks, no less. I don't really think RPGs count as boardgames in this context though - movies with roleplaying aren't common but they're not rare, and of course there's Stranger Things.
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I mean Stranger Things is weird in that context. These kids come across, like a fuckin' Mi-Go and are all 'oh ho this ones a kobold'. No kids, this is an eldritch beast from a world full of insanity.
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Has anyone built a table or regularly play on one and know what the playing surface material is? Felt, velvet, neoprene?
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KingKapalone posted:Has anyone built a table or regularly play on one and know what the playing surface material is? Felt, velvet, neoprene? Almost always felt, similar to what's on casino tables (or pool tables, for that matter). Some casino tables use "speed cloth", which is teflon-coated to make dealt cards slide easier, and that's probably a detriment to most tabletop games you'd play at home.
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WhiteHowler posted:Almost always felt, similar to what's on casino tables (or pool tables, for that matter). Looks like neoprene might be common too? Like these https://vikingmats.com/shop/custom-cut-neoprene-gaming-mat/ which are just like what you'd have for a keyboard/mouse.
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KingKapalone posted:Has anyone built a table or regularly play on one and know what the playing surface material is? Felt, velvet, neoprene? I made a table, then tore it down and rebuilt it as a hex table: Start of the thread: https://twitter.com/Ravendas16/status/1299897505669427201 End result: https://twitter.com/Ravendas16/status/1301522137635794950 It's some flatboard top, with a quarter inch of foam and wrapped in bella velvet, which that original boardgame table company used for their super expensive tables. The tweet thread has some details, but if you have any questions let me know. Edit: The orig 4x8 table writeup on BGG: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1891092/my-100-table-topper Then this hex table writeup on BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2522468/article/36084774 Ravendas fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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Bella velvet is just a type of fabric? Like this? https://www.onlinefabricstore.com/morgan-fabrics-bella-velvet-cornflower-blue-fabric-.htm Here's some bulk neoprene which I guess could also work? https://www.fabricwholesaledirect.com/collections/neoprene-fabric/products/neoprene-scuba-3mm-fabric?variant=39462231965811 I'm looking at these fabrics and now I'm wondering, do they have to be sewn together? They're sold by the yard. KingKapalone fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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KingKapalone posted:Bella velvet is just a type of fabric? Like this? https://www.onlinefabricstore.com/morgan-fabrics-bella-velvet-cornflower-blue-fabric-.htm Yeah that's the website I got the velvet from I think. You don't need to sew anything, because while it's sold by the yard, it's 54" (4'6") wide. More than enough for the width of a table. You will want a quarter inch of foam on it as well, it really adds to the premium-ness. It makes it easier to slide cards under other cards, dampens the sound of die rolls, etc.
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I think I might be chasing a ghost, but I ran across a game themed on building a relationship but felt somehow like two people drawing circuit diagrams towards each other to meet in the middle. Did I imagine an abstract with a communications/relationship theme? I look at Fog of Love, and that rings no bells.
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Was it KO-OP?
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Deathlove posted:Was it KO-OP? no but that's adorable AF
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Xlorp posted:I think I might be chasing a ghost, but I ran across a game themed on building a relationship but felt somehow like two people drawing circuit diagrams towards each other to meet in the middle. Did I imagine an abstract with a communications/relationship theme? …and then, we held hands? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153999/and-then-we-held-hands
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djfooboo posted:…and then, we held hands? That's it! Wanna reskin it as a space ship docking exercise Xlorp fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Aug 24, 2022 |
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+1 for Bella Velvet with underlayment foam beneath for a play surface. Feels luxurious and is super durable.
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Any decent apps for learning/playing Go?
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Fat Samurai posted:Any decent apps for learning/playing Go? If you don't get a good answer, you could always go ask the Go goons: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2891609
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I have no idea if it's good, but this was just released on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1862520/Just_Go/
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I've been enjoying Gomoku on boardgamearena. Definitely prefer it to Go which always seemed like a boring old-man game to me. Well, Gomoku is still that. But at my age it's either this or model trains 
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Fat Samurai posted:Any decent apps for learning/playing Go? Same, I need an iPad version
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:You guys should hit me up for a game some time. Maybe we should! Canberra is weirdly a board game Mecca compared to most other places in terms of how many stores and board gamers we have. (Probably because we're a city filled with government nerds) I was staggered when I was in the UK how few across the whole country they seemed to have, but I guess their retail has been hollowed out a lot in general by this point. I live a few minutes away from LFG in Kambah and having basically internet prices and that much stock nearby (plus all the other Canberra store options, plus CanCon etc) feels basically crazy compared to anywhere else. Maybe John Company is a good excuse, although I have a sinking feeling looking at it it's a minimum 4+ hour game the first time.
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Blamestorm posted:Maybe we should! Canberra is weirdly a board game Mecca compared to most other places in terms of how many stores and board gamers we have. (Probably because we're a city filled with government nerds) I was staggered when I was in the UK how few across the whole country they seemed to have, but I guess their retail has been hollowed out a lot in general by this point. I live a few minutes away from LFG in Kambah and having basically internet prices and that much stock nearby (plus all the other Canberra store options, plus CanCon etc) feels basically crazy compared to anywhere else. I'm keen, but I'd suggest we meet up at one of the meetups (even though they are northside) and sus out if we can stand each other's personality first. Though LFG has tables I think so we could probably do it there. Hit me up on discord as I don't have PMs. Agree though I think the employment here drives weird demographics. Canberra is VERY clique-y though, one my friends only half jokingly said I was weird for making a new friend and bringing them to board game nights hahaha.
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Hell yeah. Just finished our first game of John Company. Took about 4.5 hours for the first playthrough with lots of wheeling and dealing, ultimately ending in betrayal and the company collapsing in the 4th round. One player lost all 3 of his retirements to a poorly timed tax which was brutal. Hopefully it'll speed up on subsequent plays because it was pretty ambitious for a weeknight game but it was heaps of fun.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Will we hear the battle cry or will this be a pointless, popless ep?
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Ravendas posted:Yeah that's the website I got the velvet from I think. Bodanarko posted:+1 for Bella Velvet with underlayment foam beneath for a play surface. Feels luxurious and is super durable. Do you guys have links to the foam you used or a similar example?
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