My Little Pony, Newlands playtest thoughts

Henry, Joy, Heather, and I all love watching My Little Pony. We watch it on my parents' Netflix account (don't tell Netflix!). We are currently on season 7.

Picture from the series finale. The only one who really looks different here is Twilight. And, obviously, Spike. 

My family playtested Newlands the other day. Here's a picture of the finished game:

Thoughts:

• How on earth did dad (yellow) get his ship from the side of the board all the way over to near green? Either he used a ton of Wind tokens or accidently jumped over that red land.
• Where is Hannah's (orange) fifth settlement? I only see four.
• I'm guessing each player had about 11 turns?
• Yeah, those 2-gold tiles are a bit weird color-wise, aren't they?
• Eric's beard is covering up his ship mat! No!
• What does mom's ship mat look like?
• Despite some thinking that being on the edge is "restricting," dad and Eric, the two players on the edge, could play the whole game without anyone sailing in and messing up their plans. Especially Eric (blue), who it looks like he had free reign over his entire section of the map. And it looked like dad was doing really great on that red island over there, I wonder why he left it.

Newlands look

Got a printer. Printed out the files. Then cut them out. Here's what some of the game parts look like.

Example of what the game could look like at the end of the game.

From a different angle.

What the ship boards look like.

Ship board with all of the upgrades in place.

Comparing making games to the gospel

I promised an update on Newlands this week. 

I don’t really have any new news. There’s nothing more I can do without a printer. I’ve done everything else I can on the computer. Gospel time: I can compare this to our pre-mortal state, when we had progressed as far as we could but then were stopped because we didn’t have a physical body. 

Thankfully, we agreed we come to this earth so we could continue to progress, which is like Heather and I getting a printer this upcoming week so that my game can progress.

Isn’t comparing games to the gospel fun? 

Also, I got a job making little videos and quizzes for online textbooks. That should start this week.

Also, Independence Day was yesterday.