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<\/a><\/p>\n10 Minute Heist<\/strong>, de Nick Sibicky, est un jeu de collection de cartes dans une toute petite boite bien remplie. Les joueurs y sont des cambrioleurs qui, apr\u00e8s \u00eatre mont\u00e9s le long d\u2019une corde, entrent au dernier \u00e9tage de la grande tour ou la guilde des sorciers conserve ses tr\u00e9sors. Il y a la plein d\u2019objets myst\u00e9rieux de types et de valeurs diff\u00e9rents et dont certains ont des pouvoirs magiques. Chacun \u00e0 son tour se d\u00e9place dans le b\u00e2timent et prend un objet de son choix, mais un joueur qui est descendu ne peut jamais remonter aux \u00e9tages sup\u00e9rieurs. Le choix entre descendre rapidement pour s\u2019emparer de la carte que l\u2019on convoite et rester en arri\u00e8re pour avoir plus de choix est toujours corn\u00e9lien. Rapide, original et malin.<\/p>\n Dans la foul\u00e9e, nous avons jou\u00e9 \u00e0 un autre petit jeu de magiciens, \u00e0 l\u2019esth\u00e9tique et aux m\u00e9canismes semblant tout droit sortis des ann\u00e9es soixante-dix, The Wizard Always Wins<\/strong>, de Prospero Hall. Ici, le gagnant est le premier qui, jouant le r\u00f4le du sorcier, piochera dans le sac magique une pierre de sa couleur. C\u2019est donc un jeu de probabilit\u00e9s, o\u00f9 chacun va utiliser diff\u00e9rents personnages pour augmenter sa capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 piocher des pierres et pour ajouter des pierres \u00e0 sa couleur dans le sac, avant de se lancer et de tenter sa chance avec le sorcier. Un jeu de probabilit\u00e9s marrant et original, et bien s\u00fbr un jeu de chance aussi, rapide et rigolo.<\/p>\n Le gros jeu qui est ressorti plusieurs fois, c\u2019est Viral<\/strong>, de Gil d\u2019Orey et Antonio Sousa Lara. Viral est une sorte de jeu de guerre ou de majorit\u00e9, dans lequel les joueurs sont des virus qui se battent pour le contr\u00f4le des organes d\u2019un patient fort mal en point. On marque donc des points \u00e0 chaque tour pour le contr\u00f4le du cerveau, du coeur, des reins, du foie, du pancreas, des poumons ou de l\u2019appareil digestif. Les art\u00e8res permettent de passer d\u2019une zone \u00e0 l\u2019autre, et des cartes mutation donnent aux virus des capacit\u00e9s parfois inattendues. Bien \u00e9videmment, pendant ce temps l\u00e0, les m\u00e9decins travaillent \u00e0 chercher des rem\u00e8des contre les diff\u00e9rents virus, qui doivent donc aussi savoir rester discrets. Illustr\u00e9 avec humour par Mihajlo Dimitrievski, c\u2019est un jeu marrant, dynamique, mais qui prend quand m\u00eame quelques heures.<\/p>\n \u00c0 la lecture des r\u00e8gles, je n\u2019attendais pas grand chose de Custom Heroes<\/strong>, de John D. Clair, m\u00e9lange surprenant du bon vieux trouduc avec un syst\u00e8me de card building \u00e0 la Mystic Vale. Pourtant, on m\u2019en avait dit du bien – et on avait raison. Le syst\u00e8me permet bien des subtilit\u00e9s, et le jeu est beaucoup plus malin qu\u2019il n\u2019en a l\u2019air. L\u2019iconographie japonisante pleine d\u2019humour, assumant son orientalisme de pacotille, est en outre absolument d\u00e9licieuse.<\/p>\n Il manque ce second degr\u00e9 au style graphique de Seikatsu<\/strong>, de Matt Loomis et Isaac Shalev, qui donne aussi dans l\u2019orientalisme japonisant \u00e0 l\u2019am\u00e9ricaine, mais avec moins de recul et d\u2019humour. Le jeu abstrait, pour deux et trois joueurs est n\u00e9anmoins excellent, et c\u2019est \u00e7a qui compte. Ayant rarement l\u2019occasion de pratiquer intens\u00e9ment les jeux abstraits, j\u2019appr\u00e9cie surtout ceux qui allient l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9 et (relative) profondeur, ceux auxquels on peut jouer s\u00e9rieusement sans apprentissage ni calculs excessifs. C\u2019est le cas de Seikatsu.<\/p>\n Je connaissais d\u00e9j\u00e0 NMBR9<\/strong>, de Peter Wichmann, mais c\u2019est aussi une nouveaut\u00e9 de la Gen Con, et c\u2019est un de mes favoris parmi les nombreux jeux de \u00ab\u00a0bingo\u00a0\u00bb o\u00f9 chacun joue dans son coin tentant de r\u00e9aliser la meilleure grille avec ce qui est tir\u00e9 au sort. Ici, la grille est tr\u00e8s dimensionnelle, et son fonctionnement assez original. Par contre, il faut faire attention, on recouvre facilement un trou en jouant, ce qui est interdit; je m\u2019y suis fait prendre.<\/p>\n Galerapagos<\/strong>, de Laurence et Philippe Gamelin, est l\u2019un des plus simples et des plus amusants jeux \u00ab\u00a0faussement coop\u00e9ratifs\u00a0\u00bb auxquels j\u2019ai jou\u00e9. Les joueurs sont des naufrag\u00e9s sur une \u00eele d\u00e9serte, qui chacun \u00e0 leur tour peuvent aller chercher de la nourriture, chercher de l\u2019eau, ramasser du bois pour construire un radeau, ou plus \u00e9go\u00efstement fouiller l\u2019\u00e9pave du navire dans la baie, o\u00f9 l\u2019on peut trouver de la nourriture ou de l\u2019eau que l\u2019on va garder secr\u00e8tement pour soi, et m\u00eame parfois des armes ou d\u2019autres objets plus ou moins utiles. S\u2019il n\u2019y a pas assez \u00e0 boire ou \u00e0 manger pour tous, on ne tire pas \u00e0 la courte paille, on vote. Sont vainqueurs collectivement tous ceux qui parviennent \u00e0 survivre et s\u2019\u00e9chapper de l\u2019\u00eele en radeau. Je recommande vivement ce jeu simple, m\u00e9chant et rigolo.<\/p>\n Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des jeux d\u2019ambiance vraiment idiots, nous avons bien s\u00fbr fait quelques parties de Sticky Chameleons<\/strong>, de Th\u00e9o Rivi\u00e8re et C\u00e9dric Barb\u00e9, dont j\u2019avais d\u00e9j\u00e0 essay\u00e9 le prototype une ou deux fois avec Th\u00e9o \u00e0 la cafeti\u00e8re d\u2019Antoine Bauza. C\u2019est un de ces jeux tellement dr\u00f4les que l\u2019on en oublie parfois les r\u00e8gles et on finit par faire n\u2019importe quoi.<\/p>\n On est pass\u00e9 ensuite \u00e0 Yogi<\/strong>, de Behrooz Sharhiari, sans doute moins original mais tout aussi efficace pour faire prendre des poses tordues aux joueurs, un peu comme une version grand public de mon Kamasutra.<\/p>\n Enfin, D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/strong>, de Heinz Meister, une variation de plus, mais une assez originale et bien con\u00e7ue, parmi les jeux o\u00f9 l\u2019on doit essayer de se rappeler les images que l\u2019on a d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu passer sur les cartes, par l\u2019un des sp\u00e9cialistes de ce type de jeux.<\/p>\n Pour terminer tout cela, une derni\u00e8re soir\u00e9e chez Herv\u00e9 Marly, hier soir, nous a permis d\u2019essayer encore deux derni\u00e8res nouveaut\u00e9s re\u00e7ues la semaine derni\u00e8re. The Godfather<\/strong>, d\u2019Eric Lang, est un jeu de majorit\u00e9 moins complexe et plus rapide qu\u2019il n\u2019en a l\u2019air, au th\u00e8me bien rendu et aux m\u00e9canismes particuli\u00e8rement violents – les deux vont de pair. \u00c9tablir des majorit\u00e9s stables dans les quartiers de New York quand chacun ne dispose que de quatre ou cinq pions, et que la moiti\u00e9 d\u2019entre eux se font descendre avant la fin du tour, demande des nerfs bien accroch\u00e9s. Si leur th\u00e8me et leur esth\u00e9tique sont bien diff\u00e9rents, nos deux gros jeux du mois, Viral et The Godfather sont d\u2019ailleurs un peu du m\u00eame style, moiti\u00e9 jeu de contr\u00f4le et de majorit\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019allemande, moiti\u00e9 jeu de cartes et de baston \u00e0 l\u2019am\u00e9ricaine.<\/p>\n En fin de soir\u00e9e, on a jou\u00e9 \u00e0 Tr\u00f4l<\/strong>, de Christophe Lauras, un jeu que j\u2019aurais sans doute pu faire, tant son esprit est proche de certaines de mes cr\u00e9ations, comme Nutz!. Les joueurs y sont des tribus de trolls partant chasser du gibier, ce qui se fait en jouant des cartes qui permettent de lancer des d\u00e9s. Bien s\u00fbr, des trolls de plusieurs tribus peuvent se retrouver \u00e0 chasser les m\u00eames viandes, ce qui conduit \u00e0 pas mal d\u2019embrouilles, et les trolls ne connaissent gu\u00e8re qu\u2019un moyen de se sortir des embrouilles. En outre, si l\u2019on est trop nombreux, on tape trop fort et le gibier risque d\u2019\u00eatre explos\u00e9 et immangeable. C\u2019est rapide, tactique, passablement chaotique et plein d\u2019humour, que ce soit dans les m\u00e9canismes ou dans les superbes dessins de David Cochard.<\/p>\n Je me fais r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement offrir des jeux par les \u00e9diteurs, et j\u2019en ach\u00e8te aussi beaucoup, mais ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, je n\u2019y jouais plus aussi r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement qu\u2019auparavant. Le plus souvent, je lisais les r\u00e8gles pour le plaisir, un peu comme je lirais une nouvelle, et le jeu restait ensuite sur l\u2019une des longues \u00e9tag\u00e8res de ma ludoth\u00e8que. Du coup, je n\u2019ai sans doute jou\u00e9 qu\u2019\u00e0 un quart ou un cinqui\u00e8me des deux ou trois mille jeux qui encombrent mon petit appartement parisien. Un mois de repos forc\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 une excellent occasion de d\u00e9couvrir les nouveaut\u00e9s plus s\u00e9rieusement qu\u2019\u00e0 mon habitude, en y jouant vraiment – et c\u2019\u00e9tait tr\u00e8s agr\u00e9able !<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A few weeks after coming back from Gen Con, I had to undergo abdominal surgery. Afterwards, I was stuck home for three weeks, and could not resume at once my job as a teacher. It could have been a great opportunity to start working on new games, but inspirations doesn\u2019t always come when one asks for it. I worked a bit on projects which already on track, and I also took advantage of these long nights without any obligation to get up early in the morning to invite friends and hold long boardgame nights. Since the big parcel with all the games I bought at Gen Con, kindly packed and sent by my friends at Fantasy Flight, arrived just at this time, we didn\u2019t play many prototypes or old classics, and we mostly tried the new stuff. Knowing that I will probably write this blogpost afterwards, I took pictures of the games, something I don\u2019t usually do. Since I\u2019m a nice guy, and I don\u2019t want to make new ennemies, I didn\u2019t shoot the games we didn\u2019t enjoy playing, and I won\u2019t talk about theme. There were not that many anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n Nick Sibicky\u2019s 10 Minute Heist<\/strong> is a clever set collecting card game, in a small but full box. Players are thieves who, after climbing up a rope ladder, enter the tower where the wizard\u2019s guild keeps all its treasures. There are lots of strange artifacts, of different types and values, some of which have, of course, magical powers. each player on turn moves in the tower, taking an artefact card of his choice. the trick is that once a thief moves down, he cannot climb back to the upper floors. The choice between moving down fast to take the most valuable and powerful items and staying in the upper floor to take what\u2019s left and have more choice is always difficult. A fast paced, original and very clever card game.<\/em><\/p>\n The next game was Prospero Hall\u2019s The Wizard Always Wins<\/strong>, which looks and sometimes feels like right from the seventies. Here, players are the magicians, and the winner is the first one who manages to draw from the black magical bag a stone of one\u2019s own color. Players use the various characters to add stones of their color into the bag, and to increase the number of stones they can draw, before they try their luck with the wizard. It\u2019s all about probabilities first, then luck of the draw, and it\u2019s really fast and fun.<\/em><\/p>\n The only heavier game we played several times was Viral<\/strong>, by Gil d\u2019Orey and Antonio Sousa Lara. Viral is a kind of war or majority game, in which players are viruses vying to infect of the main organs of a very ill patient. Each round, players score for the control of the brain, heart, liver, pancreas, lungs, stomach and intestines. Arteries are used for movement between the organs, and cards help viruses to mutate and gain various abilities. Of course, in the meantime, doctors are trying to find remedies against the various viruses, so better remain discreet. Viral has a fun theme and fun graphics by Mihajlo Dimitrievski, but it\u2019s still relatively heavy stuff, a game lasting more or less two hours.<\/em><\/p>\n After reading the rules, I was not very excited about John D. Clair\u2019s Custom Heroes<\/strong>, a surprising mix between the good old president\/ asshole game and Mystic Vale\u2019s card building system. We gave it a try because I had heard good opinions about it, and we were right. The system allows for many unexpected subtleties, and the game is much more clever than it first looks. The humorous pseudo-japanese graphics, which don\u2019t even try to look like the true thing, also add some humour to it.<\/em><\/p>\n This irony is lacking in Seikatsu<\/strong>, by Matt Loomis and Isaac Shalev, whose american style japanese orientalism is more straightforward. Anyway, this two or three player abstract game is excellent, and that\u2019s what matters here. I don\u2019t play that many abstracts, but I usually like the few ones which are both light and (relatively) deep, which can be played seriously but without a long learning curve or terrible calculations. Seikatsu is one of them.<\/em><\/p>\n I already knew Peter Wichmann NMBR9<\/strong>, but it\u2019s also a new game I got after Gen Con, and it\u2019s one of my favorites among the many \u00ab\u00a0bingo\u00a0\u00bb games, these games in which every player plays on his own grid, trying to get the highest score out of the same elements drawn one after the other. Here, the grid is three-dimensional, and the way it works is really original. The only drawback is that it\u2019s very easy for a player to unintentionally cover a small hold in his building, which is forbidden. It happened to me.<\/em><\/p>\n Hellapagos<\/strong>, by Laurence and Philippe Gamelin, is one of the most fun and straightforward false cooperative games I have played. Players are shipwrecked on a desert island, and the story unfolds like Survivor, or Lord of the Flies, depending on your references. Each player on turn may go look for food or water, or for wood to build a raft, or explore the wrecked ship nearby for useful stuff, like canned food, or even gun or ammunition, and sometimes for more or less useless stuff. When dinner time comes, if there\u2019s not enough food or water for everyone, a vote determines who dies. All the players who manage to survive long enough to build a raft and leave the island win the game. This game is simple, fast, nasty fun.<\/em><\/p>\n We also played a few stupid party games. the first one was Sticky Chameleons<\/strong>, by Theo Rivi\u00e8re and C\u00e9dric Barb\u00e9, which I had already played twice at Antoine Bauza\u2019s Cafeti\u00e8re with Theo. The game is so fun that after a few rounds players dismiss the rules and start doing almost anything. <\/em><\/p>\n Then we played Yogi<\/strong>, by Behrooz Sharhiari. the game is less original but very effectiv, as you can see from the players\u2019 positions on the picture. <\/em><\/p>\n Last was Heinz Meister\u2019s D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/strong>, one more variation on trying to remember what pictures one has already see. Nothing really new either, but it works really well, like always with Heinz Meister, a specialist of light party games.<\/em><\/p>\n The very last game night, yesterday, was not in my small flat under the roof but at Herv\u00e9 Marly, and we tried two last new games which I both got last week. Eric Lang\u2019s The Godfather<\/strong> is faster and less complex than it looks. It\u2019s a majority game with a strong theme and some nastiness, the latter being an effect of the former. Building stable majority control in New York\u2019 turfs is not easy when each player has only four or five pawns, and half of them are shot before the end of the round. In a way, despite their different settings and graphic styles, Viral and The Godfather, the two relatively heavy games we played this month, feel a bit similar, half German style majority game, half American style card driven war game.<\/em><\/p>\n The very last game was Tr\u00f4l<\/strong>, by Christophe Lauras, a game I probably could have designed since it feels very much like some of my own card games. Players control tribes of trolls hunting for small or big game, which is done with playing cards and rolling dice. Of course, trolls from different tribes can end up hunting the same wild beasts, which creates disagreements, and trolls know very few ways of dealing with disagreements. Furthermore, if there are too many trolls hitting too strong on the same beast, it is blown to pieces and inedible. the game is very fast paced, tactical, very chaotic, and gorgeously illustrated by David Cochard.<\/em><\/p>\n I always try to have publishers send me their new games, and I also buy many, but these last years I did not play them as regularly and systematically as I used to. most times, I just read the rules, like I could read a short story, and then put the game aside on one of the many long shelves of my game library. As a result, I have probably played only one in four or five among the two or three thousand games stacked in my small parisien flat. A whole month of forced rest was a good opportunity to play a bit more, and I really enjoyed it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quelques semaines apr\u00e8s mon retour de la Gen Con, j\u2019ai d\u00fb subir une petite op\u00e9ration chirurgicale, rien de bien grave, \u00e0 la suite de laquelle je n\u2019ai pas pu tout de suite reprendre le travail. Coinc\u00e9 chez moi pour trois … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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