{"id":98,"date":"2020-11-28T17:34:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T13:36:44","slug":"space-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/space-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starting a new project is always exciting. I finally got around to put together a few prototypes for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamecrafter.com\/contests\/community-anthology-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">TGC&#8217;s Anthology Challenge<\/a> to Tabletop Simulator and gave them a spin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AC-RicochetGame.s.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AC-RicochetGame.s.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AC-RicochetGame.s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AC-RicochetGame.s-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/AC-RicochetGame.s-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>One of the ideas is inspired by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/51\/ricochet-robots\" target=\"_blank\">Ricochet Robots<\/a>. In other words, you move your meeple around the board in straight lines until hitting an object. The player who manages to collect all his\/her cubes first wins. Proof-of-concept testing with my regular gaming group went quite well: there&#8217;s some promise, but this definitely needs some spicing (and theme) before it would be a contest worthy entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it has been a bit slower on the blogging front, some advances have been made in the other areas&#8230; and I guess designing is a bit of a zero-sum game: the time cake should be sliced in a way that it doesn&#8217;t cause burns. And hence the super awkward transition to the naming of the game idea: Space Soup*!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*) If you are flabbergasted (as you probably should be)&#8230; I&#8217;m thinking about space amoebas as the theme for the game. In the old days, we used to play <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/124\/primordial-soup\" target=\"_blank\">Primordial Soup<\/a> relatively often in my gaming group. And in that game, you eat cubes of your own color while floating in the ocean more or less helplessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting a new project is always exciting. I finally got around to put together a few prototypes for TGC&#8217;s Anthology Challenge to Tabletop Simulator and gave them a spin. One of the ideas is inspired by Ricochet Robots. In other words, you move your meeple around the board in straight lines until hitting an object. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-soup","tag-thegamecrafter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogasta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}