ScottVee Gaming

After trying Collapsi a few times and describing it last month , I ended up on itch.io and found a variety of "Play in Browser" versions of this little card game.  It's a surprisingly varied selection built in different tools with a range of design approaches. You can find them all with a quick search , and I'm sure more will be appearing.  Here are the ones I looked at: Collapsi by Wikiti.  Last update 18 Aug 2025. This was written using the Godot Engine, and covers the basics.  Play vs Player or Computer.  When its your turn, all cards you can land on are shown in red, which is a good visual aid. Collapsi by Mad Moon Interactive . Last update 13 Apr 2026 This one was made in Unity with a neat 3-d board layout floating far above the Earth.  Here, you click one card at a time to get where you want to go.  PVP only. CollapsiJS by Sentinel65 . Last update 22 Jul 2025. Made in Javascript.  This was has a dropdown to choose player color...

Here is a cozy little game from itch.io.  In The Tiniest Tea Shop (by SodaTree), you have a character with a shop, with a range of supplies, trying to give customers what they want.  This is all tied together by two short lists of 6 things each: the Emotions and Trials that we all go through.  I will be calling these Aspects. So, your shop owner has their own Emotion and Trial, the customers all have an Emotion and Trial, and the tea ingredients each relieve one Emotion or Trial.  The game itself is a simple but clever way to tie these all Aspects together with just a few d6 rolls.  The matching of Aspects has an effect on die rolls. The early version was a one-page game in the 1100 Word TTRPG Kitchen Jam, and that version works perfectly well.  In mid-2026, they added an expanded version with full-color art (so much pink), mostly the same rules but easier on the eyes, with a few additions. The itch.io page is here. Each day you get a magical delivery of he...

Here's a game we first found on itch.io when I was searching for cat games and finding whole Game Jams full of cat games.  Find Matt's Cats. Then we found it on Steam, right here . Of course, you can zoom.  I just wanted to show the overall scope of the typical level. Then we had way too much fun with the 10-level demo on Steam.  We were in the mood for a "find the objects" game, and this was one of the most enjoyable games of that sort we have seen, period.  The art is delightful, a world packed with objects and cats, and objects for more objects to hide in.  You can click to open up entire houses or buildings.  You can click the sea serpent to open a hidden pocket world under the sea.  You can roll logs or carts or boats out of the way to find more objects. Like usual, there is a fixed set of objects to find in each level.  Then there are 10-20 gems to find in each level, and finally, one piece of art -- these go into an album.  It's fun to...

Following up on the last post, I also got Skip Bo from burning some "recognition points" at work.  Skip Bo Junior has long been a favorite of ours -- a simple, catchy game with cartoon bugs on the cards.  I have long wondered what made it "Junior".  If that's junior, what did the original game look like? At first, the original Skip Bo felt weird to us, but then it felt so familiar we had to stop and think what the differences actually were.  Mainly, in Skip Bo, you get a stock of cards (30 each for 2 players, but we went with 20 for a shorter run), a hand of five cards, and four potential discard piles, and the goal is to get all of your stock pile onto the four build piles at the middle of the table. But that's also exactly what you do in Skip Bo Junior.  But is it?  In Junior, you divide the deck evenly after dealing the Stock piles to each player.  Then we take turns dealing one card onto each of the other player's discard piles, but that was our o...

As a follow-up to all those "Card Golf" games a few posts ago , I was trying to spend "recognition points" at work and saw the Play Nine actual card game come up, and I had to have it as a follow-up. It is exactly what we expected, an 8-card version of 6-card golf with custom cards.  The cards are numbered properly so you don't have to remember that queens are 11 or whatever.  The art is a perfect fit, with cartoon golf balls, and the 0-point card is a Mulligan. The differences from the core Card Golf rules I posted previously: 1. You deal out two rows of four cards and flip two 2. You cannot just draw a card and discard it, if you do you still have to flip one of your face-down cards to face-up 3. the scoring has vertical pairs still count as zero, but two pairs are -10, three for -15 and 4 for -20.  A pair of -5s counts -20, two pairs of -5s counts -30. And it gives you an official score pad with a little golf pencil for scoring. The game runs quickly, no surp...

We went up to the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim yesterday, on a last-minute "why not?" mission.  As always, I had terribly anxiety on I-5 driving up there, but we made it from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. before the heat and endless walking wore us out.  We did finally find the gaming room where there was a library of hundreds of games, and maybe 10 people at four tables players having a good time. As a quiet place to relax, it was perfect.  The first few games we took out turned out to have a minimum of 3 players, so, um, whatever.  Then I brought over "Here, Kitty Kitty!" and it was a winner.  Easy to learn, with friendly art and some good visual gags on the cards. You start by choosing a house tile with three spaces (Yard, Porch and House), and you dump the 40 plastic cats into the space between the houses, a.k.a. the "Neighborhood". Each turn, you get two actions out of 1. move a cat one space, 2. play a card, 3. discard up to 3 cards and draw ...