A Bug's Life

I had a good Stabcon. Often it does terrible things to my health, but I managed it well and could skip out of the hotel carrying all my own luggage. (Somewhere in the mists of time is my post about playing Twilight Imperium for 10 hours and having to be carried out on a trestle table)

For the first time I played a game that was almost entirely negotiation, alliance and persuasion. In Intrigue, ( it's all talk; talk and money )

And there were other games and they were good too. I still have the Snap! skills of my 7-year-old self (Schiki Micki, Snap!-like but with a couple of extra dimensions). I have the Ursuppe/Primordial Soup expansion set now, which opens up this game of evolutionary strategy, genes and amoebas, and hundreds of tiny coloured cubes of food/poo, to 5-6 players instead of 3-4.

My favourite was the new Battlestar Galactica game, ( Read more... )

Also read Life of Pi (vg) in my copious spare time. Enforced rest periods are good for the book habit, and vice versa :-)