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What are your favourite games in terms of art direction and illustration? (jlai.lu)

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Anything from Leader Games and illustrated by Kyle Ferrin (Root, Oath, Fort...) feels like cheating but still, I absolutely adore their art style

Everdell, Photosynthesis, Parks, look nice as well

I also bought an updated edition of Costa Ruana just because of the illustrations: https://www.pamwishbow.com/client-work/project-four-yjynj-pafyx

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When I first heard about Wingspan app I dismissed it in an instant - why do I want to sit in front of the screen instead of being at the table? As someone working in IT boardgames are my escape from virtual world

I agree and I think that dynamic is definitely at play but it is eclipsed by the immediately evident truth that the digital game is as much a genuine love letter to birds wearing the disguise of an awesome strategy game as the board game itself.

A love letter is a love letter, the details of what medium the letter is written in doesn't matter, and what better crush to write a love letter to than the birds bursting wild and free into even the most terraformed artificial human environments.

.....Do you think you could teach a crow to play wingspan?