This week, Lydia provides all the fun facts about living on a boat while your nice hosts develop a card game based around scurvy management!

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Event deck

Resource Deck

Shuffle the event deck and the resource deck separately. Deal 5 cards from the resource deck to each player.

• Card game
  • Set making
  • Need to create as many sets as you can to create grog, while preventing vermin from being in your hand
  • These resources will keep you going in phase 2 when pulling from port of call / event cards
  • Whoever is able to travel farthest (successfully draw the most port of call / event cards) wins
• Beneficial food
  • Grog (face cards)
    • Rum - Jack
    • Sugar - Queen
    • Water - King
    • Limes - Ace
  • Salt meat/fish
    • Pork or Cod (Hearts)
    • Salt (Diamonds)
  • Hard tack (Clubs)
  • Suet (Spades) (added to meat or hard tack to enhance it)
• Vermin (clogs your hand and could cause problems in events)
  • Weevil
  • Maggots
  • Rats
• Rules
  • Each turn you have one action. You can either:
    • Draw a card
    • Play a complete set
  • After a certain number of cards (10 as default), you all go to sail and have ports of call events
    • Draw an event card each turn
• Ports of call / Events? - you get a point for every port you successfully make it to. Certain cards when “won” enter your stack and give you extra points or mechanical advantage
  • Windfall of resources
    • Everyone draws 5 cards and makes stacks
  • Ship cat
    • The cat joins the most rat-infested ship (removes all rats from hand)
    • OR spend the most salt meat to attract it to your ship
  • Trade with each other
    • Draw 3 cards and give 1 card from hand to the player on your left. Make stacks
  • Injured shipmate
    • Spend water and salt from your hand
    • Spend maggots from your hand
  • Threat of scurvy
    • Spend grog
  • Weevil infestation!
    • Lose a hard tack for every weevil in your hand. Discard those cards from your hand and stacks(?)

In this episode, Lydia and Stephen are rubber ducks for Mark as he talks through his ideas for a suite of Unity plugin tools. Buckle up, there's a lot! They also discuss whether to bundle or not to bundle tools, considerations of scope and price, and the deep appreciation for easy-to-use interfaces.

• Will Mark complete these tools by Christmas?
• Will Stephen get a reprieve from the nagging about his fishing mini game collection?
• Will Lydia ever get over that one client project?

Stay tuned to find out!

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