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Gametrodon
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Hi. I'm Fritz. I write about indie games, TCG's, and board/video game weirdness on https://gametrodon.com/ AKA, the worlds worst games investigative journalist.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 4d
This weeks writeup was on the Q-UP demo! It's a really cool and weird incremental game that seems to be a send up of... well a bunch of things!
Q-UP Demo - Gametrodon
Q-Up is a game about flipping coins, hostile corporate takeovers, a satire of the state of live service games, and send up of E-Sports.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 1d
New house rule suggestion for magic: After each game, everyone gets to punch you X-1 times, where X is the number of times you activated Strip Mine.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 1d
So Upper Deck claiming that “flying” is a stolen trade secret feels incredibly dumb. The mechanic already exists in the space, and has for over 20 years?
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 1d
As an example: a flying pirate would have a the Flying keyword, and the type of Pirate. The reason I find this weird in context is that Lorcana’s “evasion” is pretty much just magics “flying”.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 1d
Honestly, it’s probably fine. In the context of a card game, I’m used to something that grants an ability being a “keyword” and “type” referring batching flags.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 1d
Are there court documents somewhere that can be reviewed for this? I'm very curious about what mechanics they claim were copied.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 1d
Quick question on this. In the section starting with "Upper Deck had claimed a swathe of Lorcana mechanisms", it mentions a "characters only being able to challenge other characters of the same type", but as far as I'm aware, that's not a Lorcana mechanic at all. Unless it's talking about Evasion?
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 1d
Five times faster, a tenth as good.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 3d
Me looking at my writeup of being in the Omegathon also from way earlier this year. Sometimes something just doesn’t quite click…
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 4d
This weeks writeup was on the Q-UP demo! It's a really cool and weird incremental game that seems to be a send up of... well a bunch of things!
Q-UP Demo - Gametrodon
Q-Up is a game about flipping coins, hostile corporate takeovers, a satire of the state of live service games, and send up of E-Sports.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 4d
Just like Kickstarter moving to “the blockchain”, I’m sure this is real and will definitely happen.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 7d
Did a quick review on Landlord Quest by @katbrush.art

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Landlord Quest - Gametrodon
Landlord Quest is a very short adventure game that's best described as a hate letter to collectors of rent.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 8d
"They finally found the phylactery."
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 9d
It’s a catchy title, but I have to wonder what it’s about CDH vs Comp? UB vs UW? Just the general decay that people seems to be feeling?
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 10d
Update: Lost 8 games in a row.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 11d
@jonbois.bsky.social Watching baseball?…
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 12d
I wrote this before I played Q.Up, but it’s doing literally everything I complained about Unfair Flips not doing, so…
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 12d
What’s weird to me is that I’m going to do a short writeup on the Q.Up demo at some point, and I only stopped playing that because I reached the end.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 12d
I’m gonna be real, I feel like I’m deeply out of the loop on this one.

But I don’t also don’t think it’s worth it to play Unfair Flips.

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Unfair Flips - Gametrodon
Unfair Flips is bad, and it deeply confuses me to as why everyone thinks it is good. Maybe I'm just stupid.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 12d
Me: Yes, I can draw all of these crabs.
Me, drawing the first crab:
Oh. Oh no.

Oh no no no no no
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 13d
Qup is everything Unfair Flips isn’t.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 13d
The ol bifflefliffle
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 14d
Tried doing a cool thing in this cube instead of just drafting Agro and I have not won a single game.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 15d
Hit a high roll, and suddenly I’m at 89%
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 15d
40%. If this keeps up, looks like it’ll be just about 50~ minutes at this rate for the next upgrade.
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Gametrodon @gametrodon.bsky.social · 15d
Highest number of heads in a row is currently 7 I think.
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