My game won an award! [Toschi Recap #06]
Hi, Toschi here, and welcome to newsletter recap #05! Once more, thank you for reading it and following my articles and projects in the web. Why not recommend the blog (or the newsletter) to a friend?
I have amazing news today to share with you: a board game I designed won an international award! The Cardboard Edison Award is one of the biggest prizes that an unpublished prototype could get, and Snowy Peaks, a card game that me and my friend Yuri Morroni created, got 1st runner-up.
Snowy Peaks is a cooperative card game where two players become climbers of cold mountains trying to reach their summit. Using an original take on ladder climbing, they must play cards with increasing numbers to keep climbing, but can also reset the counting by adding the values of two cards from their hands, changing routes at the cost of losing the highest card in the snow.
We are already looking for publishers to make the game a reality, so I hope I can share more news with all of you about it soon!
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latest from the blog
Even with the chaos because of the award, I somehow posted four game reviews in the past 15 days!
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (8/10): an absurd story about a bread-addicted duck trying to solve a crime about salamis in an office full of quirky animals. Amazing to watch, okay to play. Available on PC and Switch.
Cozy Space Survivors (7/10): if you always wanted to play a bullet heaven game but Vampire Survivors felt too much, this can be your start in the genre! Available on PC.
Word Trip (7/10): my latest Playdate review is about a word puzzle game full of personality. If you like this type of challenge, you should look more about it.
Pine Hearts (6/10): this emotional journey climbing a mountain got my heart, but the lacking gameplay made me a little bored. Available on PC and Switch.
shhh, spoilers
This weekend, I’m going to Diversão Offline, the biggest board game convention in Brazil! Not only I’m going to show Snowy Peaks (and other prototypes) to publishers, but I’m also will be playing a LOT of new board games. Hope to have a recap in the blog next week if I got some time!
June is right around the corner and the “summer gaming month” is starting! I’ll be watching a lot of conferences and indie showcases, testing some new demos and I hope to bring new articles about it (at least, a list of my favorites).
Before my Google Play Pass discount ended, I finished Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box HD again, now in the mobile version. I’ll try to write a review about in the blog soon — I already talked about the first game, Curious Village, some weeks ago.
follow friday
I was looking into my saved posts on Mastodon last week and I tumbled off this amazing interactive article about waveforms and how they work. (Shared by Andy Hall!)
Matt Sephton, the designer of YOYOZO, wrote an incredible blogpost about the earliest iterations of emojis. I love some tech history, and this was a blast.
Dropout’s Game Changer, my favorite non-fiction TV show, it’s gonna end Season 6 with a banger of a finale. You should watch too.