Last Night on the Earth: The Zombie Game

Zombies have never received so much attention as they did in the past few years. Anything with zombies sells - doesn't matter if it's a computer game or a mod, a film or a book, zombies are popular and that's that. How lucky were the guys from Flying Frog Production that they based their first game on geek-favourite genre of gory zombie films, their game sold so well they've became a quite successful production company releasing a game every one or two years with a distinct style typical for all their games.

I bought the game along with its large expansion on a whim. I had money and wanted an impressive board game, zombies sounded good and the reviews weren't bad. So yeah, why not. And I must say I was quite pleased with what I got.

Music to bake to

Enjoying a cup of coffee in Ikea showroom... Like a boss

Since it seems I won't be baking anytime soon, I decided to share this thing of mine. Many will agree that baking is pretty awesome; it is actually quite epic, so why not listening to epic music while doing epic stuff? While my mum usually turn on radio and listen to traditional Czech songs sung by local folk groups or something (not very interesting), I like to play something that invokes of something great being made.

I either play something from my library or get last.fm to play me a customized radio based of tags. Seriously, you cannot go wrong with listening to a post-rock radio while baking, it usually invokes just the right atmosphere, however not every post-rock band makes glorious epic sound you'd expect them and they just make background ambient noise. How improper! :)

So I'll share couple of tracks that I think set the mood worthy of epic baking. Perhaps you'll find something you like and use it when it's time for feeling monumental.

Cookies with white chocolate and lime

Cookies!

I've bought a book called Galletas de último momento recently with a goal to learn some Spanish recipes for cookies (galletas). The cookies in the book are everything but "de último momento", usually they need special ingredient that I usually just DON'T have in my kitchen. But since I didn't bake anything for a month, I looked again into the book and found a relatively simple recipe for unusually sounding cookies. Lime and white chocolate? Hmmm....

Galaxy Trucker

Since my no-baking period has just been doubled by my dentist, I want to take this time to talk about a game that I played for the first time about a year ago. This game has an uninteresting name and box art, nothing that should capture your attention, but if you know something about board games then the name of its designer, Vlaada Chvatil, will probably hint you about its qualities. Let me say that Galaxy Trucker is an easy, enormously enjoyable and completely unforgiving game.

Battlestar Galactica

The show. No, The Show! Seriously, I hold Battlestar Galactica close to my heart. Not only it's the best sci-fi tv series ever (never been a fan of Star Trek) but it is also a pretty well-known board game. Some really smart people sat down and thought about how to put the concept of BSG into a board game and still make it fun to play. And I dare say that they succeeded... To a point. I mean, 85% of the time, I won't turn down a round of BSG, but there is such thing as too much of it.

If anyone is unfamiliar with the premise of the show, well, the story goes like this: there are humans and cylons - evil robot. Robots destroy the planets where the humans live and they kill almost all humanity, except for a small fleet of spaceships that escapes. The cylons are chasing them, and unknown to humans, they infiltrated their ships as well. There are two kinds of robot: metal robot-looking ones and those who look exactly like humans. Sometimes they even think they are human, but they can be activated by the cylons and sabotage things on the ships, ultimately leading the humanity to its demise.