{"id":9105,"date":"2018-02-04T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2018-02-04T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T13:18:35","slug":"cursed-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/02\/04\/cursed-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursed Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Il y a une vingtaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es de cela, je jouais beaucoup au poker, et m\u2019\u00e9tais essay\u00e9 \u00e0 quelques autres jeux d\u2019argent. Cela peut sembler paradoxal pour quelqu\u2019un qui n\u2019appr\u00e9cie gu\u00e8re tournois et comp\u00e9titions, et qui rappelle r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement que le jeu ne prend son int\u00e9r\u00eat que dans sa d\u00e9connexion totale de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Une explication est sans doute que, si l\u2019argent gagn\u00e9 ou perdu au poker est bien r\u00e9el, les syst\u00e8mes menant aux pertes et aux gains sont, eux, bien diff\u00e9rents de ceux du monde r\u00e9el, et c\u2019est d\u2019ailleurs ce qui fait que l\u2019on doit consid\u00e9rer les jeux d\u2019argent comme des jeux. Une autre raison est que ces jeux d\u2019argent, par la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 de l\u2019enjeu, parviennent \u00e0 g\u00e9n\u00e9rer une tension assez difficile \u00e0 cr\u00e9er dans un jeu \u00ab\u00a0sans enjeu\u00a0\u00bb, c\u2019est \u00e0 dire dont l\u2019enjeu n\u2019est qu\u2019une victoire sans lendemain.<\/p>\n

Une de mes id\u00e9es fixes, surtout lorsque je travaille sur des jeux de cartes assez simples, est de parvenir \u00e0 cr\u00e9er sans argent une tension qui s\u2019apparente \u00e0 celle du bluff au poker, du pari au blackjack. Je pense y \u00eatre plus ou moins arriv\u00e9 dans des jeux comme Citadelles, Mascarade, Diamant, Waka Tanka, Dolor\u00e8s ou Vabanque.<\/p>\n

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J\u2019ai r\u00e9cemment fait quelques parties de Cursed Court, le premier jeu de Andrew Hanson, publi\u00e9 par Atlas Games. Cela fait bien longtemps que je n\u2019avais pas \u00e9t\u00e9 aussi enthousiasm\u00e9 par un nouveau jeu. Si l\u2019\u00e9dition n\u2019est pas parfaite, les m\u00e9canismes sont extr\u00eamement simples, malins et originaux. Quelques cartes, des jetons de poker, un petit plateau de jeu, et un jeu tout en paris, bluff et intimidation, dans lequel on essaie de deviner d\u2019apr\u00e8s leurs mises quelles cartes les autres joueurs ont vues, tout en s\u2019effor\u00e7ant de cacher son jeu\u2026. Je n\u2019y ai jou\u00e9 qu\u2019\u00e0 cinq ou six joueurs, c\u2019est certainement beaucoup moins int\u00e9ressant \u00e0 trois ou quatre, mais cela fait longtemps que je n\u2019avais pas \u00e9t\u00e9 aussi impressionn\u00e9 par un nouveau jeu et par un nouvel auteur. Je suis tr\u00e8s curieux de ce que Andrew Hanson va bien pouvoir nous proposer apr\u00e8s cette petite perle venue de nulle part.<\/p>\n

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Sinon, mon autre d\u00e9couverte du moment, c\u2019est Fantasy Realms, de Bruce Glassco, un petit jeu de cartes qui ne paye pas de mine, qui est m\u00eame assez moche, mais qui renouvelle le draft avec intelligence et l\u00e9g\u00e8ret\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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Twenty years ago, I used to play a lot of poker, and occasionally other gambling games. This might sound paradoxical for someone who doesn\u2019t like tournaments and competitions, and regularly emphasises the fact that the whole point of games is that they are disconnected from real life. One explanation might be that while the money won or lost at poker is the same as in the real world, the way it is divided among players is completely different – that\u2019s why gambling games are still games. Another reason is that gambling games, through the reality of money, generate a tension which is hard to emulate in traditional games, where all that\u2019s at stakes is a hollow victory.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of my obsessions when designing games, and especially card games, is to generate an anxiety akin to that of bluffing at poker, or betting at blackjack. I think I more or less sucheded in games like Citadels, Mascarade, Incan Gold, Waka Tanka, Dolor\u00e8s or Vabanque.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I recently played a few games of Andrew Hanson\u2019s Cursed Court, published by Atlas Games. I had not been that enthralled by a new game for years. The production is not flawless, but the game systems are simple, clever and new. It\u2019s just 36 cards, a small board and a bunch of poker chips, but it\u2019s an incredibly tense game of bluffing, intimidation and double-guessing. It\u2019s all about guessing from their bets what cards the other players have seen, while not revealing one\u2019s own information. After such an unexpected masterwork as his first design, I\u2019m really curious of what Andrew Hanson will do next.<\/em><\/p>\n

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My other recent discovery is Bruce Glassco\u2019s Fantasy Realms. This unassuming card game, with a bland theme and a bland look, is a very light and clever take on drafting cards.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Il y a une vingtaine d\u2019ann\u00e9es de cela, je jouais beaucoup au poker, et m\u2019\u00e9tais essay\u00e9 \u00e0 quelques autres jeux d\u2019argent. Cela peut sembler paradoxal pour quelqu\u2019un qui n\u2019appr\u00e9cie gu\u00e8re tournois et comp\u00e9titions, et qui rappelle r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement que le jeu … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-2mR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}