Watch “Dummy Smuggler 0.3.1 for Ahoy (Winding the Gears),” a board game video for Ahoy from GIVEPAUSE hobby on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by GIVEPAUSE hobby on YouTube:
Welcome back to Winding the Gears, a sub-series of the ROOTbot Academy where I dive into the work in progress projects in the automa board game space (thus far Leder Games only, but previously, only Root). This is the first time I'm breaking out from the Woodland, but I still kept the Root assets because they're so cool.
So anyways, Ahoy! Leder Games' newest game takes to the high seas and is delightful. Only problem is, the 2p game takes some of the functions fulfilled by the Smuggler and offloads them onto the first player of the two militant factions; it works, but it's not the same as interacting with an organically changing map. So here's my introduction to my personal project for the Dummy Smuggler, a non-scoring automa to take back the Wealth Dice improvements and cycling through the market deck. This is version 0.3.1, so it's very much WIP at this point.
SPEAKING OF WHICH... if you'd like to learn more about the background, the changes, and to comment on either/both, here's the BGG thread:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3002842/dummy-smuggler
...and if you play a game with this version of the Dummy Smuggler, I'd hugely appreciate a short answering of my short Google Form:
https://forms.gle/yahwxq1VrUULd2Qj7
Thanks for checking it out!
----------TIMESTAMPS…
0:00 - Greetings and explanation why this exists
6:24 - Introducing the Dummy Smuggler
8:19 - Naming and organizing of the boxes
----------RULE TIME!
9:13 - Box A: Setup
9:55 - Box B: Overall Rules
13:07 - Box C: “Great Stuff”
16:00 - Box D: How the Dummy Smuggler Moves
17:20 - Box E: Breaking Ties
17:41 - Feedback
18:03 - Box F: Placing New Map Tiles
----------FLOWCHART TIME!
19:40 - The Dummy Smuggler turn
24:04 - Explanation of current exploration rules
25:22 - Explanation of current goods vs “Great Stuff”
----------WRAPPING UP TIME!
27:46 - A bit about feedback and the iterative loop
30:56 - Goodbye!
MY PLACES...
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MY THANK YOUs:
MUSIC!
The following music was used for this media project:
"Onion Capers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
LEDER GAMES!
For the incredible work that every member of the Leder team puts into titles like Root in order to transport us to the ruthless, wondrous woodlands, from the bottom of my heart I thank you. I also additionally thank Kyle Ferrin and the Leder team for making some of his ridiculously good Root artwork available for the 60-second Root competition so I could make this new venture look that much prettier (all rights reserved to Leder Games and Kyle Ferrin as applicable).
VIEWERS!
Thanks for being here!