gaming update

[quarrel]

I had the first Friday night gaming session in a while. Only a few people arrived, and slowly, so it took a while to get going. When we finally got five people, we began a game of the Kickstartered reprint of Glory to Rome. Though allegedly an elegant game once you know how to play, its a dense game and difficult to learn piecemeal, and four of us were new to it. We played a few rounds by beginner rules, then a sixth person arrived. The game doesn't support more than five players, so we switched to Dixit. I came in dead last, at about 20 points with everyone else in the high 20s when the winner crossed 30.

On the video game front, I've yet to beat FTL on Easy, though I've gotten past Stage 1 of the final fight twice. Mainly I've been playing an indie first-person puzzle game called Kairo. Punch Quest on the iPhone is also refreshingly fun and smartly-designed side-scrolling beat'm'up.