Thank you for featuring my game Targi in this episode, I feel very honoured. Maybe I can answer some of the questions that popped up. Most of the answers are tied to the fact that the mayority of the Kosmos for two player games are bought by people that don´t play very many games, since these gamses are also sold in Germany in corner stores and drug stores to an wider audience. In fact 90 % of all the Targi copies have been bought by casual gamers. So a Kosmos for two game is also tailored to these players and not hardcore gamers alone. Therefore such a game has to be cheap to buy, so cardboard tokens are used instead of expensive acrylic tokens (the board game geek store has some fantastic upgade bits for people who want to bling out the game with more than only simple raisins). It has to be easy to understand and Targi already scratches the upper limit. So only one type of boarder cards to keep it simple (more of those cards are added in the two expansions for more depth and variety). A simple name for the expansion, so that people who are not into the hobby still understand that this is an expansion for Targi (and yes we had some flashy alternatives). And those silver crosses are traditional jewelery of the Tuareg people, if you google Tuareg and jewelery you find plenty of pictures and descriptions. The ones depicted in the game are called an Agadez cross these are given by a father to his son when he reaches around 15 years of age. This is the age a boy becomes a man and is free to travel anywhere he wishes. The four points of the cross represent the four corners of the world, so no not a nina star or a currency :-) Hope I could answer some of the questions. Thanks for your great podcast. Keep up the good work. Many greetings Andy
Hi Andy, thanks so much for addressing all of that! I hope you don't take any personal offense from any of our criticisms, we give our full thoughts on any game. 🙂 We also understand that there's a lot more intentionality behind game design choices than we get to see as the players, so it's cool to get a behind-the-scenes perspective. That makes so much more sense about the silver crosses, thanks for clarifying! That definitely adds to the immersion and theme. We've both enjoyed playing Targi, and I hope to get around to trying out the expansion. Thanks for supporting the podcast, and for making games!
Thank you for featuring my game Targi in this episode, I feel very honoured.
Maybe I can answer some of the questions that popped up.
Most of the answers are tied to the fact that the mayority of the Kosmos
for two player games are bought by people that don´t play very many games,
since these gamses are also sold in Germany in corner stores and drug
stores to an wider audience.
In fact 90 % of all the Targi copies have been bought by casual gamers.
So a Kosmos for two game is also tailored to these players and not
hardcore gamers alone.
Therefore such a game has to be cheap to buy, so cardboard tokens are
used instead of expensive acrylic tokens
(the board game geek store has some fantastic upgade bits for people who
want to bling out the game with more than only simple raisins).
It has to be easy to understand and Targi already scratches the upper
limit. So only one type of boarder cards to keep it simple (more
of those cards are added in the two expansions for more depth and variety).
A simple name for the expansion, so that people who are not into the
hobby still understand that this is an expansion for Targi (and yes we
had some flashy alternatives).
And those silver crosses are traditional jewelery of the Tuareg people,
if you google Tuareg and jewelery you find plenty of pictures and
descriptions.
The ones depicted in the game are called an Agadez cross these are given
by a father to his son when he reaches around 15 years of age.
This is the age a boy becomes a man and is free to travel anywhere he
wishes. The four points of the cross represent the four corners of the
world, so no not a nina star or a currency :-)
Hope I could answer some of the questions.
Thanks for your great podcast. Keep up the good work.
Many greetings Andy
Hi Andy, thanks so much for addressing all of that! I hope you don't take any personal offense from any of our criticisms, we give our full thoughts on any game. 🙂 We also understand that there's a lot more intentionality behind game design choices than we get to see as the players, so it's cool to get a behind-the-scenes perspective.
That makes so much more sense about the silver crosses, thanks for clarifying! That definitely adds to the immersion and theme. We've both enjoyed playing Targi, and I hope to get around to trying out the expansion.
Thanks for supporting the podcast, and for making games!
@@TabletopShop no offens taken . Thans for everything. Take care
No offense taken. Thanks for everything. Many gereetings