Awesome tutorial! i love the fact that there are 3D graphical representations of all your examples and the setup and how the actions take place. Definitely helps to understand exactly what you are referring to and visualize it on the game board. Excellent work! Subscribed :)
Excellent work. Narration, editing and scripting were all of a great standard. This is the type of video you can actually ask your friends to watch a few days beforehand and they will actually get through the video instead of giving up after two minutes. Beats reading the rule book or getting some on the spot, cobbled together explanation from the owner of the game with half the rules accidentally left out.
Thanks for the comment. I'm really happy how this one turned out, even if it did make me want to stop doing 3d animated videos as it just took way too long :)
I lost focus in the 3 other videos I watched... So, I was really restless when I watched this one. But I was able to understand the entire thing. You've definitely got my subscription.
Thanks for the comment. A huge amount of time goes into the scripting and storyboard, and then running it all past various people (including non-gamers) to see if it all makes sense and flows well. This is why my vids take me 100 hours to make :) Well, that and the digital animations :)
I couldn't imagine a way of doing the explain-job better than you did. Perfect job! I just watched the video to remember the rules to be able to explain the game tomorrow. Now I am thinking about simply starting this video. ;-)
Thanks. A huge amount of time and effort goes into planning the video and scripting it to make sure its clear. But yeah, it has been known that your other players come round and then just watch this for 20mins before you start playing. It takes people usually longer than that to teach the game :) Let me know how it goes.
Thanks. Unfortunately, it took me about a month to create, working on it almost full time. So I wont be planning on making any more like this, as it really hurts my content output, but I'm pleased with how it turned out.
Over 110 hours on this one. Which... is why I no longer create these types of videos. I still do full rules tutorials, but the 3d animations took me forever. I was really proud of this one though :)
good job! even though i'm weak in english i understood every word... i have had Tzolkin for many many years and haven't played this game for a few years until recently my 10yo son discovered it and he fell in love with it and picked it up very quickly even though the game is officially intended for people from 12 years old
I thought your Gloomhaven one was excellent, but the explanation surpass it. This was superb. Crystal clear, logical and concise without missing anything. The animation also really helped.
Thanks. It was after this video that I stopped doing the 3d animations. This video took 120 hours to create, and it wasn't feasible to continue doing it all myself. A shame, but I'm producing more content now.
Yes! Since it was a couple of years since I'd last played, I wasn't feeling confident of my own explanation. Luckily you provided me with a Paul explanation in tablet form!
Nice video! I am about to play this game tonight, first time, so your video was helpful. Lets see how it goes, as it seems it will be the first time for all of us tonight! :)
I had never seen any of your videos before! This one particularly is amazing. Very structured easy to follow, and the obvious thing... those 3d representations are extremely neat to look at and help a lot when learning the game. Keep it up! Subscribed!
Great video. thank you. I found your channel while trying to figure out the new Through the Ages and it helped tremendously, we decided to try to learn Tzolkin this weekend, and what do you know...you happened to just release this video. awesome!
Wow I absolutely love the way you've done a digital version of the game board to illustrate the rules! (I'm so curious... what software did you use to do this???) I'm a very visual person and it's so much easier to learn a game this way. And if I ever need to teach people the game I think I'll just show them this video first :) Thanks for all your hard work on this!
Thanks for the comment. One of the ideas of these videos is so that you can get your new players to all watch it beforehand, and then its quicker when you actually sit down to play :) I use the adobe creative suite. Specifically After Effects for the animations - but it requires some additional plugins, it cannot do the 3d work on its own.
Hi! Thank you for a very nice presentation of TZOLK'IN! However one thing remains very unclear, and that is the use of the technologies!!? If you're on the second spot of the resource extraction track, where it says + one stone, can you take two woods at the same time as you take two ston??! And if you're on the third spot, can you take two wood, two stone in addition to two gold, at the same time??!!! It's impossible to understand this fully... I would be very happy for an answer! Yours sincerely Zindy Roka
This was an excellent tutorial, thanks! I have a couple questions: for the starting player action, you say you may choose to advance two days instead of one, but not if one of YOUR workers would be pushed out the gears on the SECOND rotation. Does this apply to other player's workers too? i.e. I may not advance two days if I would push out another player's worker? Also, if a worker would be pushed out on the first rotation, may I still advance two days?
When you choose to rotate it twice, you cannot do so if it pushes ANY worker off. However, you always move it once, so if that pushes someone off, then that's ok - you just cant choose to rotate it twice if it would force a worker to be removed.
If the central gear is on the end od an age position, we do play the last round and then checking Victory points, or without playing last round? So when gear is moved to the end its just summing up the victory points?
Just a question. Are the resources on the brown track also cumulative? I.e. Will I gain all the bonuses whenever I remove a worker from Yaxchillan? Or do I just get the extra resource if I'm getting the same resource type? The boardgame arena version of the game doesn't do the cumulative thing of giving you wood stone and gold. My friend who taught me this game also don't apply the cumulative resources that way. :)
Hey Benjamin. The tech bonuses are always cumulative. However, they do only apply when taking a resource of that type. tech 1: Whenever you gain wood from Palenque / Yaxchillan - gain 1 more wood tech 2: Whenever you gain stone from Yaxhillan - gain 1 more stone tech 3: Whenever you gain gold from Yaxhillan - gain 1 more gold So, on the last space of Yaxchillan, where you get stone and gold, if you have tech 3, you do get both. Tell your friend, and write to the BGA people too if it is wrong there :)
@@d-man8294 You would only use it based on the current placement of workers. If you have more workers out than the other players, or really need to move it two spaces, then do it. Also, near the end of the game, it can really disrupt another players plans, like if they had their next few turns planned out and then you go and move it 2 steps :)
Tzolkin is much more than a game its a calendar which a hole civilization was based on by the time in england nobody even shower the mayas were astronomical pioneers this is a joke
