Davey Wreden’s interactive storytelling video game The Beginner’s Guide is an engaging interactive storytelling experience that follows Coda as he confronts him for creating games he doesn’t care for and publicly sharing them. The plot revolves around Coda harassing Coda for creating games he doesn’t like and sharing them publicly.
Cards typically represent sources and game rules with extra descriptive text for added flavor. Many cards also feature symbols or lore that relate to their settings, genres or themes.
1. Magic: The Gathering
Richard Garfield created Magic: The Gathering in 1993 and it quickly become one of those “lightning in a bottle” games that revolutionized hobby gaming. It set the precedent for other card games to follow suit while breaking away from stereotypical board gaming ideas.
This game blends strategy with fantasy, as players engage in an epic wizarding duel between summoned creatures, cast spells, and weapons to destroy their opponent. Mana powers everything from small units and monsters to massive creatures and artefacts in this vibrant arena of war.
At first, Magic can seem intimidating, but there are plenty of resources to assist new players with getting started. Wizards of the Coast provides a helpful video that covers the basics; MTG Goldfish offers more in-depth explanations; additionally you’ll need dice for tracking life and tokens to represent units; often used are dice 6s!
2. Yu-Gi-Oh!
Many can fondly remember their early teen years when Yu-Gi-Oh! was an animated series. With its combination of ancient Egyptian mythology, fast-paced game play, and aggressive promotion for real trading card game products merchandising opportunities made this show an instant classic with viewers.
Real-life Scrabble pits two players against each other by having them attempt to reduce their life points to zero by using Monster, Spell and Trap cards from a Main Deck as well as an Extra Deck (with cards labeled Fusion, Synchro and Xyz being considered part of this extra set).
Yu-Gi-Oh! has proven so popular that several spinoff series were developed. Each iteration brought with it new twists or monster types not present in previous iterations, attracting viewers of various kinds. For those who prefer reading over watching, there are manga and comic series such as Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, 5D’s, ARC-V and ZEXAL available, each offering their own stories but all featuring characters dueling over cards in duel matches.
3. Dominion
Dominion revolutionized card game play by making deck building an integral component of gameplay – something normally completed before starting to play a CCG – making Dominion one of the world’s bestselling card games.
Dominion has seen several expansions that add new cards for you to mix and match into your deck, such as Intrigue’s additional Action cards, Choice cards and Victory cards that double as actions; Seaside adds Duration Cards that remain in play until their effects wear off at the end of Clean Up step rather than being discarded each turn.
Dominion recently made headlines due to its links with President Trump and its supporters, including Rudy Giuliani’s false allegations about its voting machine software in Venezuela for Hugo Chavez elections. Dominion denies these ties and works across political lines without favoritism in its work.
4. Settlers of Catan
Settlers of Catan is a strategy board game where up to four players compete to establish settlements, cities, roads and settlements on Catan island. By gathering resources such as grain, wool, wood, ore and brick for building construction and trading these for victory points – the first player who reaches 10 wins the game!
There are 19 terrain hexes on the board, each one housing one of five resources (grain, wool, wood, clay and ore). You place player pieces onto these hexes and roll the dice to see which produce resources in terms of numbers. Once done you can construct roads – which costs one Brick and one Lumber per placement – between any two adjacent hexs; though these must connect back into existing roads or settlements before being constructed. Using Development cards you may gain additional resources or victory points! The game is both simple to learn and enjoyable so ideal for casual games nights alike!
