1295: Zachtronics Solitaire Collection PC \\ Beating Fortune's Foundation! (& Sawayama & Sigmar)
0Playing the solitaire variants Fortune's Foundation, Sawayama Solitaire, and Sigmar's Garden in The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection, GOG PC version!
Starts with a quick look at the previews of the Fortress and FreeCell solitaire games as seen in Solitaire Forever II (Steam): the description of Fortune's Foundation says it was "inspired by Fortress," and players in the Steam community forum compare it to FreeCell.
My other computer games playlist: • smbhax plays other computer games!
0:00 - Fortress & FreeCell (Solitaire Forever II)
2:38 - Fortune's Foundation
3:36 - wait it's a whole column?? = oo
16:48 - pondering
53:28 - go for it!
1:16:27 - fortune
1:23:15 - lowering fanfare.ogg volume
1:27:23 - the journey
1:35:14 - Sawayama Solitaire
1:54:35 - Sigmar's Garden
2:18:45 - wrap!
When I had first looked at Fortune's Foundation it seemed impossible; the big breakthrough here was realizing that the space in the middle, under the crystal ball, is not just a single-card hold space, but a regular stack-holding play column, left blank by the initial deal.
And I only figured that out because I'd switched the "Tarot Movement" bottom option on the options screen from the default "SINGLE CARD" to "ENTIRE STACK," as recommended by posters on the Steam forum for greatly reducing mouse clicking necessary to flip stacks of cards over--which you need to do sometimes, since in FF you can make stacks of cards in either descending OR ascending order. And that works hand-in-hand with the big gameplay tip I got from that forum, which is to always have an open card column--for flipping stacks, and so forth! And I hadn't realized the game STARTS you with an open column until I clicked what I thought would just be a single card in there, but since I'd toggled that "ENTIRE STACK" setting, it also moved the card that had been under (above) it in there, so suddenly there was a two-card stack in what I'd thought had been a single-card holding spot, and I was like, waaaaaaaait a sec...
The first deal I happened to get put both ends of the tarot in reach. : ) But it took a lot of digging to get the 2!
It was fun, though; Fortune's Foundation turned out to be just the kind of thing I was looking for when I first started looking at CCGs: a procedural, turn-based fantasy strategy game with lovely art. : ) CCGs didn't work out 'cause, like RPGs, they seem obsessed with covering the art with migraine-inducing flashing VFX; Zachtronics doesn't have those, though, just lovely smooth art. ^ _^ And you DO feel like you've been on a journey by the end. Will it hold up now that I've got the rules down? I think so; Sawayama Solitaire in this Collection, which is shorter, has been holding up just fine; that's kinda of the quicker, funkier change of pace to FF. : )
And I guess I still sort of enjoy Sigmar's Garden, even though it's uh USUALLY pretty easy. ]_]. Got a nice look and different approach to it.
Oh, it isn't the suit of "stars" in tarot, it's the suit of Coins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suit_of_coins . Tarot decks were invented in 15th century Italy, not ancient Egypt or anything--that was later propaganda. ; )
Oh heck this whole time I thought the mouse pointer in this game was being captured by OBS. Oh wait it is in Sawayama... Not Sigmar's and FF, though. HUH. Great, that's gonna make that long "pondering" section SUPER boring. = P OKAY I'll just have to enable the cursor capture option in OBS then, shoot.
2/6/22
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