The Tao of Gaming

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(At least, the next one after he sees my email)

From Game Informer, current issue, page 61.

"Specter wanted Oswald the Lucky Rabbit [1] to be the centerpiece of Epic Mickey. But that wasn't possible until a years-old dispute was resolved. 'Disney didn't own the rights to Oswald,' Spector explains. 'So there was no way I could use him as a character in this game.' But Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, went to NBC/Universal, which after 80 years owned the rights to Oswald, and TRADED AL MICHAELS, a human sportscaster, for the rights to a cartoon rabbit."

(Technically this is old news, but since I hadn't heard about it, I'm assuming Simmons hasn't either).

[1] The first character created by Walt Disney (prior to Mickey).

Which means I have a month (or so) to decide whether to continue this somewhere else, or just confine my ramblings to BGG/SABG or other sites....

I could move to blogger or wordpress, I suppose.

See the full story on the SABG blog.

(Non-Lou's are welcome to check it out, but I think he'll really appreciate it more).

I got in two games of Endeavour yesterday. It's ... fast. It's hard to dislike a fast game, especially one that gleefully steals from titles I like.

I'd lustily hate Endeavour if my first game took two hours, like some reviewers claim. But we played a 3 player game in about an hour (with rules), and then a five player game in less than 1.5 hours.

At the time I didn't particularly love it. The good:

• It's fast,

• You have some long term strategy,

• Quite distinct feel, based on # of players

• Not many false choices (that I saw).

The bad: Endeavour doesn't differ enough from other Euros to excite me.

Although I was still thinking about it this morning; that's something. I suspect that there isn't enough variability. I mean, you only have fifteen buildings, and only seven builds (turns), not as many as in Puerto Rico, and not as fluid. Endeavour will need to be deeper than my initial impression of it, I think. Worth playing a few times.

Now that I've read the Dungeon Lords rules, I'm totally getting that. (When Z-Man releases it). I just realized, though, that I'm way behind on Vlaada's games ... I still haven't tried Space Alert or League of Six.