Shut Up & Sit Down
This game is complicated and clever in ways that set the neurons buzzing.
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Vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you? Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? If we can ever happen again? What are… we? Divide and conquer. Solve for sentience.
In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols’ command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. But be careful! Moving and revealing cards have immediate action. You have to think like a computer, and think ahead, or you’ll end up playing right into your opponent’s hands.
First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent’s Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality.
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This game is complicated and clever in ways that set the neurons buzzing.
The variability is out of the roof because drafting is going to be different ever time.
This a game that has a ton of flexibility. Even with just the 18 cards, the combinations you can make and jockeying back and forth is super fun.