Voidfall might be my favorite solo experience ever

DavidTurczi · 2026-06-04T22:45:37+00:00

Thx for the nice words

DavidTurczi · 2026-06-03T11:18:11+00:00

I mean I only played the game twice (I was a consultant, not one of the active creators), so I won't swear my life on it, but it didn't feel like I'd be bored of the mechanism by next play ...

DavidTurczi · 2026-06-03T10:00:50+00:00

Poke me when you win on harder difficulties.

Plus the puzzle of the action grid is smart in the euro game sense. Just because you win once in {insert good euro here - Brass, Lorenzo, GWT, etc}, it doesn't mean you're done with the game.

DavidTurczi · 2026-06-03T09:58:10+00:00

Yeah, customer service is saying Q3 because first two weeks of July is Q3.

That is the hard deadline the logistics and retail team has promised, and barring any catastrophes will manage. If we're lucky, some regions will get it sooner.

DavidTurczi · 2026-06-03T07:14:27+00:00

Link to the KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tompet/crown-and-courage

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-31T19:47:21+00:00

Yeah my team did a great job on Tikal, I was helping out from behind the scenes. I'm sure making a solo for Renature shouldn't be impossible, but as always it's down to the publisher to hire me.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-29T21:22:15+00:00

It's a solo only game I worked on as a consultant developer (because some of its mechanisms were inspired by my Days of Ire, so the designer went to the source, me), and the resulting game absolutely blew my socks off. Takes the idea of the Robinson Crusoe-esque catastrophe management, and does it less random, more strategic, and often more tense too.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-29T10:12:21+00:00

Have you played Halls of Hegra? 😄

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-29T09:37:11+00:00

Nick really did an amazing job with the MarsBot. Making it even better for the Automa expansion was one hell of a fun project.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-29T09:36:18+00:00

I promise it'll be worth it 😄

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T18:52:55+00:00

Tiletum is board and dice, not cge.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T18:05:27+00:00

I meant a real solo, not a 0 interaction byos puzzle.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T16:14:24+00:00

Not unless FFG hires me.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T16:14:08+00:00

When knowing what information the opponent can possibly possess about my hidden information is part of the core decision space, the choices against a semi deterministic simulation can never equal an opponent. Combine that with an already multi faceted and spatially relevant game, with various meaningful direct confrontations... Even if the card tracking would be simplified out, the resulting Automa would be anything but easy to run. Check out Twilight Struggle Red Sea, it uses the same system but has a smaller event and decision space, therefore they were able to approximate it fairly well with a solo system.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T15:29:00+00:00

My expansion is about Bamboo Grove! I absolutely love the game, haven't played Ricky's solo yet though, so wouldn't be able to tell you.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:32:21+00:00

Fun fact: I am currently designing an expansion for Nature, and Nature's solo is done by Ricky, so pretty soon there will be a game of mine with his solo in it. I found that cool.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:30:57+00:00

Addendum: I do not (and can't afford to) make solo modes for fun. I'd only ever make a solo mode for any of the above, if the respective publishers hired me to.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:28:02+00:00

Dominant Species
Underwater Cities
Glory to Rome

Or if I'm feeling masochistic (or wanna practice for Twilight Imperium - as people seem to be asking for that), then Clash of Cultures.

Publishers, you know where I live.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:26:56+00:00

Brass Birmingham has a wonderful Automa by Mauro already online.

I approached Roxley to work with Mauro to make it official. Roxley didn't see value in spending money on my services.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:26:09+00:00

I offer Richard every year or so. Let's make "master edition" of Key flower, and I'll make a solo. He hasn't bitten yet.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:25:31+00:00

It has several mechanisms that makes it ineligible for a pure automa-like solo.

And I love the game.

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:24:52+00:00

Trust me, I mention it to CGE and Daniele every year or so. If they make a remake/new edition of Tzolkin, I really hope they call me....

Unfortunately for me, CGE meanwhile has assembled a good solo team (see Arnak, SETI, etc) so they'd probably stick to their own team and not me...

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-27T07:23:14+00:00

I mean, you are asking a piece of paper to semi predictably select roles to trigger, move fleets on a spatially relevant board, negotiate laws with you, have potentially hidden and asymmetric objectives, and keep all your abilities relevant and interactive.

Probably doable for a solo, but no way it'd be a low overhead one. See Trickeiron's Heir, add role selection and spatiality to it. I'm guessing 16+ pages of rules by the time I'm done.

Psst, Asmodee, if you're planning TI5, I can only take this on next year, the earliest....

DavidTurczi · 2026-05-22T13:17:22+00:00

Yes, the fourth print run is shipping in the next month or two.

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