James Cochran

BG Stats 2025 Plays: 700 H-index: 11 Games: 177 New: 130 Players: 43 Locations: 11 Hours: 241 Days: 285 Galdor's Grip: 69 The Cubes of Europe: 41 Count of the Nine Estates: 40 Downtown Las Palmas: 24 A Nice Cuppa: 23 The Daily Weather: 20 Adventurous: 20 Final Girl: 16 Skulls of Sedlec: 16 166 designers: Scott Almes: 8% Dustin Dobson: 4% Milan Zivkovic: 4% Steven Aramini: 4% Danny Devine: 2%.

Button Shy dominated my 2025 of course. 700 plays!!!

Infinite Paths A solo TTRPG system

I just backed Infinite Paths on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lea...

BG Stats Nov 2025 Plays: 42 H-index: 3 Games: 17 New: 6 Players: 10 Locations: 3 Hours: 14 Days: 17 The Daily Weather: 19 Sea Salt & Paper: 4 Unpublished Prototype: 4 Confusing Lands: 2 The Shipwreck Arcana: 1 Paper App Dungeon: 1 Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs: 1 Mountain Goats: 1 Backgammon: 1 18 designers: (Uncredited): 11% Dustin Dobson: 11% Bruno Cathala: 5% Chris Darden: 5% Elizabeth Hargrave: 5%.

Compared to Solotober I barely played any games this month!

#Crownfell is an asymmetric, abstract, 2-player strategy card game that is live on @thegamecrafter.bsky.social!

No stretch goals, except for this: The more people get it, the lower the price goes *for everyone*.

Add-ons include a playmat & solo expansion.

www.thegamecrafter.com/crowdsale/cr...

BG Stats Oct 2025 Plays: 102 H-index: 4 Games: 55 New: 23 Players: 19 Locations: 3 Hours: 53 Days: 31 Orchard: 9 card solitaire game: 14 Sea Salt & Paper: 8 Mini Rogue: 5 Count of the Nine Estates: 4 Don't Go In There: 3 River Wild: 3 Ubongo: 3 Are You A Robot?: 3 Tiny Epic Zombies: Deluxe Edition: 2 57 designers: Dustin Dobson: 7% Milan Zivkovic: 7% Scott Almes: 7% (Uncredited): 5% Gabriel Gendron: 3%.

Solotober 2025 is in the books. What a fun month of gaming I had! I played a solo game every single day of the month!

I'm pretty sure the little girl is the woman at the end. She's been fighting this for nearly 40 years.

BG Stats Sep 2025 Plays: 45 H-index: 4 Games: 15 New: 2 Players: 3 Locations: 3 Hours: 17 Days: 19 Final Girl: 6 Count of the Nine Estates: 6 Skulls of Sedlec: 5 Adventurous: 5 The Last Lighthouse: 4 A Nice Cuppa: 4 Food Chain Island: 4 Euchre: 2 Onitama: 2 17 designers: Dustin Dobson: 20% Scott Almes: 20% (Uncredited): 6% A. J. Porfirio: 6% Chris Cieslik: 6%.

How many data centers can we "afford"? The answer is "complicated"

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BG Stats Aug 2025 Plays: 75 H-index: 4 Games: 38 New: 22 Players: 22 Locations: 4 Hours: 31 Days: 19 Final Girl: 5.4h Count of the Nine Estates: 1.6h Up or Down?: 2.5h Alibis: 2.2h In Vino Morte (2016): 0.5h Embers: 1.7h Cool Cool Cool: 1.1h A Dragon's Gft: 0.7h A Nice Cuppa: 0.6h 37 designers: Scott Almes: 10% Dustin Dobson: 5% Elizabeth Hargrave: 5% Steven Aramini: 5% A. J. Porfirio: 2%.

Well I discovered Final Girl so that will be my new obsession!

I had one of the best days of my life today. I realized, as I posted about a game I'll probably not remember a few years from now, that people may look back on my post history and say, "That's what he was excited about?" No, that's not what I was excited about today. #ILYD

I've been playing Final Girl and it's just so good. Even when I lose I have fun. Even when I lose and realize I've misread one of the rules it's fun because then at least I understand why Dr. Fright was so punishing. I'm ready to come back for vengeance!

Purple Moose Plays...Lands of Amazement - Kickstarter Preview YouTube video by Purple Moose Plays

New video up on the channel! This week I took a preview look at Lands of Amazement, the newest game in the Simply Solo line from @scottalmes.bsky.social and @buttonshy.bsky.social , on Kickstarter now!
youtu.be/OCCNeDLrvss?...

Button Shy Simply Solo play test of Scott Almes new game.

Play testing for Button Shy

I also wonder if it's why my dad took up harmonica.

I can't imagine being a teenager in 1970 and Black Sabbath coming out. My mind cannot.
It's the best rock album of that year and possibly ever.

[WIP] Mush Puppies (18 cards) - 2025 2 Player PnP Design Contest - [Rules, Components, PCIO ready for feedback] | BGG Mush Puppies {1-2 players | 8+ ages | 15 minutes | 18 cards} Mush your sled dog puppy-ominos on trail mail treks to celebrate the historic 1925 Serum Run. Game Design: Justin Antezana Placehold...

Had the absolute joy of getting a play test of Mush Puppies by @oceans4ransom.bsky.social Going to be a real fun one. I look forward to play testing more and giving feedback. Certainly one to check out if you're thinking about getting in to play testing as well as maybe even learning to do PNP.

@vikunja.io I'm running a fairly old version and just updated today. Logs tell me the image has been deprecated and to go to this page which is now a 404: vikunja.io/blog/2024/02...
I can probably figure it out and I might be the only person with this issue but just in case you wanted to fix the 404

BG Stats Jun 2025 Plays: 58 H-index: 4 Games: 18 New: 4 Players: 6 Locations: 2 Hours: 16 Days: 22 Galdor's Grip: 2.6h The Cubes of Europe: 2.4h Ultra Tiny Epic Galaxies: 1.8h Sea Salt & Paper: 1.7h River Valley Glassworks: 0.7h Skulls of Sedlec: 0.5h Mini Crimes: The Drowned King: 1.7h Tiny Epic Galaxies: 0.9h For Northwood! A Solo Trick-Taking Game: 0.6h 21 designers: Gregg Jewell: 11% Scott Almes: 11% (Uncredited): 5% Adam Hill: 5% Alex Butler: 5%.

Had a wonderful June for gaming! Lots of softball means lots of Galdor's Grip.

BG Stats May 2025 Plays: 68 H-index: 5 Games: 18 New: 7 Players: 9 Locations: 5 Hours: 17 Days: 30 The Cubes of Europe: 20 Galdor's Grip: 14 Tussie Mussie: 5 Quests Over Coffee: 5 Sprawlopolis: 5 Skulls of Sedlec: 3 Mini Rogue: A Roguelike Microgame: 2 Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs: 2 Count of Nine: 2 24 designers: Ben Huntley: 11% (Uncredited): 5% Alexander Shen: 5% Beau Beckett: 5% Bruno Cathala: 5%.

May was a good month for gaming! Happy to have found The Cubes of Europe! Such a fun game.

That's ok no worries. If I remember you were saying you can't trust in CNNs 🐂. The video was a woman talking about Pete Hegseth.

I'm confused what you mean here. Which part is the nonsense?

Off topic but I'm happy I found you on this platform organically so quickly

Where do I throw my money?

BG Stats Mar 2025 Plays: 55 H-index: 3 Games: 21 New: 8 Players: 9 Locations: 3 Hours: 22 Days: 31 Galdor's Grip: 5.3h Battle Pages: 2.9h Embers: 1.4h Telestrations After Dark: 3.4h Lands of Amazement: 0.9h Twin Stars: Adventure Series I: 0.7h Yahtzee: 0.4h Unsurmountable: 0.4h Numbsters: 0.3h 21 designers: Jason Tagmire: 9% Scott Almes: 9% Steven Aramini: 9% (Uncredited): 4% Andy Bergmann: 4%.

Lots of good plays in March with lots of good friends!

I'm sitting my ass down, I'm listening, but I'm not learning, I have a learning disability I'm so sorry

Ahh shoot I missed it. Didn't even know you were doing it! Would have been at a softball game anyway but would have loved to try it.

Rhino Hero

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Yes this is a game for grade schoolers. Yes my adult friends love it. Yes we bought two sets because we were getting too good at it.

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Pic: why we needed to buy two sets.

At this point please tell me what doesn't alter my DNA.

Good luck! Do you have anything publicly available to try out?

Do you know why all of these are in black and white? I know it was right around the same time color photos were becoming ubiquitous and am confused why every picture I see of MLK Jr is in B&W. My assumption is that's the film they were taken with but it seems odd to have all B&W in 1965.