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Has anyone here ordered Daybreak (the new game from the person who made Pandemic)? My copy is coming in the mail today, and I can't wait to try it out. (lemmy.world)

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I used to love playing Pandemic, but now that we actually lived through one, none of my friends want to play it anymore, myself included. I'm really looking forward to Daybreak to hopefully reattain the vibes of the original while still being fresh.

Anyone else here getting it or looking forward to it?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess I see pandemics as still an unsolved and dangerous issue, although of course not as bad and important as climate change is, so I still have a hard time seeing the difference.

I didn't mean to rain on your parade and I hope you end up enjoying the game.👍🏻

For me, buying new board games is something that's riddled with climate guilt. It's one of my own biggest footprint leaks. And this theme, I feel, would remind me everytime I'm playing the game about that. Which I guess is a good thing.

I already have nine co-op games so I'm set for a while*. If peeps in my part of the world need to fill up seats for Daybreak I'd be willing to give it a spin on someone else's copy. 🫡
Leacock has made some great games.

*: Actually I kind of needed this thread because I've been eyeing Unfathomable today but I guess I don't need a tenth coop game right now. This is the irony of Daybreak's theme—it's meant to inspire the fight against climate change and as such it reminds me to not buy games much more than a plastic pile like Unfathomable can.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't take it as raining on my parade, so you're all good there buddy.

And as for the topic of board gaming being sustainable or unsustainable in and of themselves, the creator actually touches on this in his backerkit page. I think it's an interesting thing to talk about.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/alex-hague/daybreak#story_section_380

There are no plastics in the game and they are doing their best to lessen or reduce the climate impact of making and distributing the game. Might be worth a look if you are interested to see their approach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that is wonderful!

Yeah, I've been reading Nick Bentley, he's like been wary of even simple abstracts, let alone a full euro. I'm still gonna cut down overall (not buying new hardware is better than buying harm-reduced hardware) but I'm glad they're trying to harm-reduce! 👍🏻
Makes me more interested in the game.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Totally understandable! There's always TTS too to try it out. I'm sure it'll be added if it hasn't already.