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N.A.N.Y. 2016 AnnouncementSince 2007 we have held an annual event that we call NANY (New Apps for the New Year), where we ask the coders who hang out on DonationCoder to create some new piece of free software and share it with the world on January 1st of the new year. NANY is really the funnest thing we do on this site, and it's one of the few times we can all play together. There are no winners or losers, it's simply a celebration of programming and creating new software and sharing it with the world. You can target any operating system (desktop or mobile) or even make a web-based tool. It can be a game, utility, large application, whatever. DC takes makes no claim on your software, it's just an event to encourage you to share a creation with others. Best of all, everyone who participates gets a free commemorative coffee mug. Browse previous year entries here: https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=210.0 |
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Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive PerspectiveThis christmas day we played two great board games that I would highly recommend to casual gamers. The first was "Tokaido": https://boardgamegee...dgame/123540/tokaido Tokaido is a very casual, stress-free, beautiful board game where players travel along a famous road in Japan and choose from a few basic activities. The activities are things like eating at a restaurant, visiting a souvenir shop, etc. It's a very relaxing experience but with real strategic elements, and it was enjoyed by a new gamer who was scared of complicated rules. It's a very atmospheric experience and feels like traveling in a foreign land. Perfect for non-gamer families. I'm not sure it would hold up to dozens of plays, but highly recommended as a gaming experience for a non-boardgame family looking for a relaxing but engaging experience. The art design is incredibly elegant. |
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Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive PerspectiveThe second board game we played this christmas day was "Evolution". https://boardgamegee...ame/155703/evolution (note: we actually played with the FLIGHT expansion). I have played this game before with my nieces (12 and 20), with great success. This is a game where players evolve species and struggle to feed them (or each each other). There are few games I've played that do as good a job of capturing an engaging theme as this one.. It is a wonderful experience that everyone I've played with is captured by and quickly embraces. Very fun to see how your creatures struggle to compete with each other. We had some great moments in the last game where a bird evolved to become a carnivore predator and killed off a bunch of us and then quickly found itself in the unfortunate position of having to canibalize its owners other species. Great fun. This is more of a gamer's game, with a higher learning curve, but one that is extremely engaging and thematic. |
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Japanese (?) character readers - please tell me what my sake mug set says!please help me solve this mystery. i have a sake set and all around the main container and the little cups are writings.
i'd love to know what they say. so many characters!! i am assuming it's japanese but could be chinese -- correct me if i'm wrong! |
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More Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive PerspectiveI'm going to try to add more small board/card game recommendations as we come up to the holidays, in case people are looking for stocking stuffers, etc..
Today's Micro-review is for the 2-player-only card game "Lost Cities": https://boardgamegee...dgame/50/lost-cities Lost Cities is highly recommended on board game geek as a fairly casual and easy-to-learn, but strategically rich, two-player card game. I found the recommendations were well warranted. We learned it during the first game and were excited to replay it immediately after. Gameplay is simple and fast. We were both quite intrigued by the strategic decisions during the game and felt compelled to talk about them afterwards -- always the sign of a good game. Gameplay is simple and fast. I would definitely recommend this to couples looking for a different kind of card game to add to their collection. |
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Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch OnlineThe Great British Baking Show Very sweet british amateur baking competition -- everyone is nice to each other. http://www.netflix.com/title/80063224 See also here for more info. |
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