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Le Th\u00e8me :<\/strong> La m\u00e9canique :<\/strong> L’histoire :<\/strong> Paul Randles and Mike Selinker<\/p><\/div>\n Ne voulant pas se laisser abattre, Paul s\u2019effor\u00e7a jusqu\u2019au bout de faire des projets, et l\u2019un de ses derniers fut une sorte de suite \u00e0 La Crique des Pirates, l\u2019\u00cele aux Tr\u00e9sors. L\u2019action se d\u00e9roulait autour de la m\u00eame \u00eele, deux si\u00e8cles plus tard, les joueurs \u00e9tant des plongeurs cherchant \u00e0 ramener les tr\u00e9sors des galions engloutis lors des nombreuses batailles navales ayant anim\u00e9 la crique \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque de la flibuste. Peu avant la mort de Paul, en f\u00e9vrier 2003, Paul et sa femme Katty en confi\u00e8rent le prototype \u00e0 leur ami Mike Selinker, lui aussi amateur de flibuste et de piraterie, puisqu\u2019il allait bient\u00f4t se lancer dans l’aventure de Pirates of the Spanish Main.<\/p>\n C\u2019est en avril que je fis pour la premi\u00e8re fois le voyage \u00e0 Columbus, pour le Gathering of Friends d\u2019Alan Moon. Paul Randles, habitu\u00e9 des lieux, n\u2019\u00e9tait plus l\u00e0, mais j\u2019y rencontrais Mike Selinker qui me fit jouer \u00e0 \u00ab l\u2019\u00cele aux Tr\u00e9sors \u00bb. Le principe me s\u00e9duisit aussit\u00f4t, et les quelques id\u00e9es que j\u2019avan\u00e7ai \u00e0 l\u2019issue de notre premi\u00e8re partie, avec notamment la suppression du plateau de jeu figurant la mer, me firent aussit\u00f4t engager comme troisi\u00e8me larron.<\/p>\n Les plateaux de jeu du prototype, de l’\u00e9dition fran\u00e7aise et de l’\u00e9dition am\u00e9ricaine. Commenc\u00e8rent alors de r\u00e9guliers \u00e9changes de mails et de fichiers entre la France et les Etats-Unis, et la version d\u00e9finitive de l\u2019\u00cele aux Tr\u00e9sors prit forme. Les principes de base du jeu sont rest\u00e9s ceux du prototype de Paul, avec notamment la programmation par jour et les amusants plongeurs auxquels on ajoute des tuyaux pour qu\u2019ils plongent plus profond, mais le jeu est devenu plus l\u00e9ger, plus rapide, plus amusant \u00e0 jouer, sans rien perdre de sa richesse. Lorsque nous f\u00fbmes satisfaits, nous entam\u00e2mes la tourn\u00e9e des \u00e9diteurs, Mike aux Etats-Unis et moi en Europe.<\/p>\n je fus le premier \u00e0 trouver, et le jeu fut donc publi\u00e9 en Europe par Tilsit, aujourd’hui disparu, avec des illustrations montrant l’\u00eele au tr\u00e9sor sous un soleil \u00e9clatant. Plus tard Mike prit part au lancement de Titanic Games, qui devint donc l’\u00e9diteur am\u00e9ricain, et opta pour des graphismes plus sombres, montrant les nuages s’\u00e9paississant et le calme avant la temp\u00eate. L\u2019\u00e9diteur polonais, Egmont, a \u00e9galement refait une partie des graphismes. J’ignore ce que Paul aurait choisi, mais je suis certain que deux versions du jeu, une ensoleill\u00e9e et une temp\u00eatueuse, aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 au del\u00e0 de ses r\u00eaves.<\/p>\n Illustrations fran\u00e7aises de David Cochard Il fallait un titre international, qui \u00e9voque la plong\u00e9e et ne passe pas pour un autre jeu de pirates. Nous pens\u00e2mes \u00e0 Sargasso, Tortuga, Barbado, avant d’opter pour Key Largo. En France, on ne connait gu\u00e8re sous ce nom que le superbe film de John Huston, mod\u00e8le de film noir en huis-clos. Aux \u00c9tats-Unis, Key Largo c’est d’abord une \u00eele au large de la Floride, paradis des plongeurs \u00e0 la recherche tant de vieilles \u00e9paves que de jolis poissons.<\/p>\n Key Largo<\/strong><\/span> The setting :<\/strong><\/em> The systems :<\/strong><\/em> The Story :<\/strong><\/em> Paul didn’t want to capitulate and, until the end, he worked and made projects. One of his last projects was Treasure Island, a boardgame that was intended as a kind of follow-up of Pirate’s Cove. Action takes place on the same island, two centuries later. Players are now divers vying to bring back the sunken treasures lost during the many battles and boarding around the island in the blustery times. A few days before Paul died, in february 2003, his wife Katty and him gave the prototype of Treasure Island to their friend Mike Selinker, whom fans of pirate games will know from co-designing the game Pirates of the Spanish Main.<\/em><\/p>\n I happened to make in april 2003, for the first time, the trip to Columbus for Alan R. Moon’s Gathering of Friends. Paul, who had been a regular, was no longer there, but I met Mike who invited me to play Treasure Island. I really liked the basic idea of the game, and made a few suggestions after this first game; as a result, I was immediately hired as a third guy to finalize the game.<\/em><\/p>\n Mike and I started sending emails and files over (or is it under?) the ocean between France and the USA and soon the Treasures Island took its definitive form. The basics are still those of Paul’s prototype, with, for example, day to day programming and divers that can buy extra hose to search deeper wrecks, but the game has become lighter, faster paced, more fun to play, without losing its depth and variety. When we were all satisfied with the game, we started to look for a publisher, Mike canvassing the American ones while I was looking in Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n Illustrations am\u00e9ricaines de Ben Huen & Andrew Hou I found one first, so the game got published in Europe by Tilsit (now out of business), with light graphics depicting the Treasure Island on a sunny day. Later, Mike became involved with Titanic games, which became the US publisher and opted for darker graphics depicting the island while clouds are gathering and the hurricane is approaching. The Polish publisher, Egmont, also changed some graphics. I don\u2019t know what Paul would have chosen, but I\u2019m sure having both a sunny day and a cloudy day version of the same game is more than he would have dreamed of.<\/em><\/p>\n L’\u00e9dition polonaise, chez Egmont<\/em> We needed an international title, a title which suggest the diving theme and makes clear this is not one more pirates game. We thought of Sargasso, Tortuga, Barbados and finally made up our mind for Key Largo. this will make no problem for the american gamers, but can prove funny in France. Though everybody here knows about the great film noir by John Huston, with an archetypal closed doors plot, few know that it’s also the name of a divers’ paradise island.<\/em><\/p>\n Key Largo<\/strong><\/span> Le Th\u00e8me : Nous sommes dans les derniers jours du XIX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, sur une \u00eele des cara\u00efbes qui fut longtemps un repaire de pirates. On a r\u00e9cemment d\u00e9couvert que de nombreux galions charg\u00e9s d’or, coul\u00e9s \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque de la flibuste, … Continue reading
\nNous sommes dans les derniers jours du XIX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, sur une \u00eele des cara\u00efbes qui fut longtemps un repaire de pirates. On a r\u00e9cemment d\u00e9couvert que de nombreux galions charg\u00e9s d’or, coul\u00e9s \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque de la flibuste, reposent par le fond \u00e0 quelques milles des c\u00f4tes. Le terrible ouragan Katty est annonc\u00e9 dans une dizaine de jours, ce qui vous laisse peu de temps pour recruter sur place une \u00e9quipe de plongeurs et ramener \u00e0 la surface les tr\u00e9sors engloutis.<\/p>\n
\nKey Largo est un jeu de programmation simultan\u00e9e. Chacun doit chaque matin d\u00e9cider secr\u00e8tement de ce qu’il doit faire dans la journ\u00e9e – emmener des touristes voir les dauphins, plonger \u00e0 la recherche de tr\u00e9sors engloutis, vendre vos trouvailles au march\u00e9, acheter du mat\u00e9riel ou tra\u00eener \u00e0 la taverne pour recruter des plongeurs et \u00e9couter les derni\u00e8res rumeurs. C’est aussi un jeu de gestion dans lequel chacun d\u00e9bute la partie avec une somme modeste qu’il devra faire fructifier, le vainqueur \u00e9tant le joueur le plus riche lorsque l’ouragan oblige \u00e0 arr\u00eater les plong\u00e9es.<\/p>\n
\nJ\u2019avais beaucoup appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 La Crique des Pirates, et \u00e9chang\u00e9 \u00e0 son sujet des emails tr\u00e8s sympathiques avec Paul Randles, l\u2019un des auteurs du jeu, mais nous n\u2019\u00e9tions jamais parvenu \u00e0 nous croiser. Sans doute aurions nous fini par trouver le moyen d\u2019organiser une rencontre, mais Paul fut surpris par un cancer qui l\u2019emporta en quelques mois, alors m\u00eame que le succ\u00e8s commen\u00e7ait \u00e0 pointer le bout de son nez.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/paul.jpg\" "\\"paul\\"")
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The boards from the prototype, from the French version and from the US version.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a>
French graphics by David Cochard<\/p><\/div>\n
\nUn jeu de Paul Randles, Mike Selinker, Bruno Faidutti<\/span>
\nIllustr\u00e9 par David Cochard
\n3 \u00e0 5 joueurs – <\/span>45 minutes<\/span>
\n Publi\u00e9 par Tilsit (2005) <\/span>
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\n The action takes place on a Caribbean island, in the very last days on the 19th century. The island has long been a pirate’s harbour, and it has recently be found out that there were many sunken galleons around. Hurricane Katty is due in ten days, so you have little time to hire a diver team and bring back as much sunken treasure as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Key Largo is a double-guessing game, like Paul Randles’ other game, Pirate’s Cove. Every morning, each player secretly decide what he will do the coming day – take tourists dolphin watching, search a wreck for treasures, sell treasures at the market, buy equipment at the local shop, or go to the tavern to hire more divers and listen to the rumours. It’s also a light management game, where you start with little cash and must make your money grow through fruitful investment. The winner is the richest player when the hurricane breaks through and stops all diving around the island.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n I really like Pirate’s Cove, and I had exchanged a few nice and interesting emails about it with Paul Randles, one of the game’s authors, when it was first published as Piratenbucht, but we never met. We could probably have arranged a meeting later, but Paul was caught by a cancer and died after a few months, just when his first boardgame was becoming a small hit.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
US graphics by Ben Huen & Andrew Hou<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a>
Polish edition by Egmont
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\nA game by Paul Randles, Mike Selinker, Bruno Faidutti<\/span><\/em>
\n Art by Ben Huen & Andrew Hou
\n3 to 5 players – <\/span>45 minutes<\/span><\/em>
\n Published by Titanic Games (2007) <\/span><\/em>
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