{"id":12290,"date":"2023-06-07T21:13:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2024-01-08T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:20:59","slug":"the-artemis-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/the-artemis-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artemis Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ad Astra<\/em>, con\u00e7u avec Serge Laget et publi\u00e9 en 2009 par un \u00e9diteur disparu peu apr\u00e8s, n\u2019a pas vraiment eu sa chance. D\u2019abord pass\u00e9 inaper\u00e7u, ce jeu n\u2019est qu\u2019ensuite devenu un succ\u00e8s d\u2019estime, dont les rares boites se revendaient assez cher – je le sais, j\u2019ai d\u00fb m\u2019en procurer une ou deux quand j\u2019ai voulu en recycler le mat\u00e9riel pour travailler avec Serge sur une nouvelle version. Du coup, nous sommes tr\u00e8s contents qu\u2019un autre \u00e9diteur, Grand Gamers Guild, ait d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de lui donner une deuxi\u00e8me chance sous une nouvelle \u00e9tiquette, The Artemis Odyssey<\/em>, qui en fait un peu la suite de l\u2019excellent The Artemis Project<\/em> de Daryl Chow et Daniel Rocchi – et tant pis si la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence mythologique devient un peu bizarre quand il n’est plus question de coloniser la lune mais d’explorer des plan\u00e8tes plus lointainse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour ceux qui connaissaient la premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition, Ad Astra<\/em>, disons que The Artemis Odyssey<\/em> est un jeu plus dynamique, notamment gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des tours plus brefs et des d\u00e9placements plus rapides, avec un mat\u00e9riel moins sombre et donc plus lisible. Il se joue d\u00e9sormais de 1 \u00e0 5 joueurs, et m\u00eame par \u00e9quipe \u00e0 6 ou 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour ceux, les plus nombreux sans doute, qui ne connaissaient pas Ad Astra<\/em>, ou ne le connaissaient que de nom, voici donc une petite pr\u00e9sentation de The Artemis Odyssey<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cela fait bien longtemps que je n\u2019ai pas ressorti ma vieille boite des Colons de Catan<\/em>, mais dans les ann\u00e9es 2000, lorsque Serge et moi avons commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir \u00e0 ce qui allait devenir Ad Astra<\/em>, puis The Artemis Odyssey<\/em>, c\u2019\u00e9tait encore un grand classique que nous pratiquions \u00e0 l\u2019occasion. Le syst\u00e8me de production et d\u2019exploitation des ressources de notre jeu est emprunt\u00e9 \u00e0 Catan<\/em>, mais nous avons voulu faire un jeu qui ne soit pas d\u00e9pendant, comme l\u2019est celui de Klaus Teuber, des jets de d\u00e9s et de la g\u00e9ographie. Situer l\u2019action dans l\u2019espace nous a permis d\u2019\u00e9liminer les situations de blocage assez fr\u00e9quentes sur le continent catanien, et de donner du coup aux joueurs de plus larges choix strat\u00e9giques. Rendre la production de ressources d\u00e9pendante des choix des joueurs permet d\u2019\u00e9liminer la plus grande part du hasard, le fait que ces choix soient faits avec des cartes jou\u00e9es faces cach\u00e9s introduisant en revanche un peu de bluff et de psychologie, \u00e9vitant de ce fait que cela ne devienne trop calculatoire. Tout cela fait de The Artemis Odyssey<\/em> une sorte de Catan<\/em> peut-\u00eatre un peu plus complexe, mais surtout moins script\u00e9, plus vari\u00e9, plus tactique, plus dynamique – et dans l\u2019espace, mais je ne suis pas s\u00fbr que cela change grand chose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Financ\u00e9 via Kickstarter fin 2021, The Artemis Odyssey<\/em> arrivera en boutique \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 2023. L’\u00e9diteur de la version fran\u00e7aise ayant refus\u00e9 de me laisser faire la traduction, comme je le raconte dans un autre post<\/a>, je conseille plut\u00f4t l’achat de l’\u00e9dition originale, en anglais. Voici d’ailleurs la traduction des r\u00e8gles et cartes<\/a> que j’avais r\u00e9alis\u00e9e et dont l’\u00e9diteur n’a pas voulu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Artemis Odyssey<\/strong>
Un jeu de Serge Laget et Bruno Faidutti
Illustr\u00e9 par Cristian Romero
1 \u00e0 5 joueurs \u2013 45 minutes
Publi\u00e9 par Grand Gamers Guild<\/a>
Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ad Astra was designed with Serge Laget and published in 2009 by a publisher who went out of business soon afterwards. The game went first unnoticed, and later became much sought after, to the point that the few available copies sold at a high price \u2013 I know it firsthand, since I had to buy one or two in order to recycle their components in the new version Serge and I were working on. We are therefore really happy that a new publisher, Grand Gamers Guild, decided to give it a second chance under a new name, <\/em>The Artemis Odyssey. Our game has indeed become a kind of follow-up to <\/em>The Artemis Project, a great \u00ab worker placement \u00bb game by Daryl Chow and Daniel Rocchi<\/em> – and never mind if the mythologiocal reference becomes a bit strange when the game is no more about colonizing the moon but about exploring far away planets.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019ve already played <\/em>Ad Astra, you only need to know that <\/em>The Artemis Odyssey is more dynamic, mostly due to shorter game rounds and faster movement. It has a brighter color palette and therefore more readable components. The game now plays from 1 to 5, and there\u2019s even team rules for 6 or 8.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you’re not familiar with <\/em>Ad Astra, or only by name, here\u2019s a short description of <\/em>The Artemis Odyssey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve not opened my old copy of <\/em>Settlers of Catan for years but in the early 2000, when Serge and I started to think of what would become <\/em>Ad Astra, and then <\/em>The Artemis Odyssey, it was a classic that we regularly played. We really liked the resource production and development system from Klaus Teuber\u2019s game but wanted to make something less dependent on dice rolls and geography. Moving the action into deep space prevents the blockade situations which are my main issue with <\/em>Catan.<\/em> Having resource production decided by the players makes the game less random, and having cards played face down brings a bit of bluff and psychology, and prevents the system from becoming a brain burner. <\/em>The Artemis Odyssey might be slightly more complex than <\/em>Catan, but it is mostly less scripted, more varied, more tactical, more dynamic \u2013 and in space, but I\u2019m not sure it matters that much.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Artemis Odyssey was financed on Kickstarter in late 2021, and will be in store in the summer of 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Artemis Odyssey<\/strong>
A game by Serge Laget et Bruno Faidutti
Art par Cristian Romero
1 to 5 players \u2013 45 minutes
Published by Grand Gamers Guild<\/a>
Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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