Have been looking for Kites ever since I first started seeing videos of it. Out of stock everywhere! But I LOVE Twin Palms. Was so excited to get it from the kickstarter campaign!
We were able to get it straight from flood gate games website. Looks like it's in stock again if you are still interested. And Twin Palms is fantastic!
I love Royal Visit by Reiner Knizia. Great vid you two! Also I watched someone playing Kites at Gen Con and I had massive anxiety just watching haha. It was fun looking though.
I'm going to need to get Santa Monica! For one reason or another I've been holding off on getting it. It's one of the first games I wanted to get when I got into the hobby. Finally find someone else who isn't into The Crew either. I just started playing Parks on BGA and really enjoying it. I'm gonna need to snag a copy of that as well 😏.
I can't believe I have not played any of the games on your list! (Mostly because I can't believe I still haven't played Parks) Hellapagos sounds awesome! Is it easy enough to teach/learn that I could bring it out on a Game Night with friends who don't play a lot of games? I think I'll be picking that one up. A summer themed game that I like a lot is Summer Camp, a deck building game by Phil Walker Harding where you're trying to earn merit badges in categories like Outdoors, Arts & Crafts and Friendship. It's fairly light, easy to get to the table, and very thematic.
Oh man you gotta play Parks! It's fantastic! Hellapagos is super easy to teach and learn and great for non-gamers because the turns are so simple. Heck we can even teach you how to play right here. On your turn you can take 1 of 4 actions: 1. If you choose to collect water, you just move the water tracker up by the number indicated on the weather card for that day. If it's a 3 water day. Gather 3 water etc. 2. Go fishing to collect food, you reach your hand into a bag with 6 wooden balls and pull out 1, then you move the food tracker up by the number of fish shown on the ball you selected. 3. Gather wood to build a raft - you always find 1 piece of wood at the edge of the forest but can push your luck by declaring how many more pieces you'd like to find, then you'll grab the corresponding number of balls out of the bag and if they are all brown you gather that much wood. However, if you pull out a black one, you bust, get bitten by a snake and have to spend the entire next day recovering so you skip your next turn. 4. Search the shipwreck which means instead of taking an action to help the group you selfishly take a card from the shipwreck deck. These can be useless items, food, medicine, tools that can make gathering resources more efficient or things to hurt other players like a gun or bullets. Your cards are kept secret from other players and can be played at any time. At the end of the day you move your food and water tracker down by the number of players in the game. So if there's 12 players you move each down by 12 because everyone is eating or drinking for the day. If you ever run out of a resource everyone votes who doesn't get to eat or drink that night and that player gets eliminated unless they can play a food or water card from their hand to stay in the game. Players may also use a gun with a bullet card to shoot another player in this situation as well. It's a super easy, really thematic party game that plays great with a lot of people. Definitely recommend the expansion that adds events and asymmetrical player powers for added fun! We've seen summer Camp before and are interested because it's a deck builder but we heard it's more of an intro game so we've been hesitant about buying it. But hearing that you really llike it is enough for us so we'll definitely have to pick that one up!
@@MIsForMeeple Haha, okay, Hellapagos sounds awesome. Going to look for it (and the expansion) online as soon as I finish typing this reply. I do think it's fair to call Summer Camp an intro game; it is pretty simple, and not what you want to play when you're in the mood for deep strategy, brain-burny decision type games. It is a fun, light filler type game, though, and I like how it leans into it's theme. Part of why we enjoyed it so much may have also been that we found it for $7 at Target during their unannounced clearance sale a few weeks back. 😅
Lost Cities is definitely on my list to check out, after looking up Blue Lagoon I'll be adding that to the list as well. Thanks for the suggestions 😀 👍
Jealous you have Longboard, still waiting for my preorder to arrive. Off the top of my head, check out Ra, Modern Art, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, Tigris and Euphrates, Lost Cities, Amun-Re, High Society, Blue Lagoon for some other Reiner Knizia goodness.
