Once Upon A Die

24/04/2021

Livestream announcement! Sunday, April 25th at 9pm, and I’m trying something different to my board game/RPG content this time.

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a relaxing video game that is literally about how stories evolve in the telling. I always love stories in any kind of game, so this concept grabbed me immediately.

Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to see my story with this game commence.

Good Shepherd Entertainment Serenity Forge

14/04/2021

Livestream announcement! Join me today, April 14th at 2pm EST as I pick up my palette and my brushes and prepare to paint a Canvas - designed by Jeff Chin and Andrew Nerger, with stunning art by Luan Huynh, from R2i Games. This is an awesome drafting and set collection game that sees you competing to create three masterpieces, scoring them based on four criteria randomly chosen each game from a selection. Head over to www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie to see how I get on!

06/04/2021

Livestream announcement! After a long break, I shall be returning to Greg Favro's Spire's End to complete my story. The adventure continues tomorrow, Apr 6th at 5:30pm EST. Please note that this is a continuation of a blind playthrough. To check out the (very rough) teach of the basic rules and part one of the video, head over to my YouTube channel (link in comments).
Join me tomorrow at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to see how the story culminates!

18/03/2021

Hey everyone! Believe it or not, despite my love of games, RPGs and storytelling, I have never played Dungeons & Dragons! Well, that's about to change. Tune in on Saturday, Mar 20th at 7pm EST to see me play my first ever game LIVE! DM will be Stella Saint, and you can see the game on her Twitch channel at www.twitch.tv/saintstella or my own at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie. In the meantime, meet Aeltharyon Ardenhammer!

15/03/2021

15/03/2021

04/03/2021

Livestream announcement! This Friday, March 5th at 4:30pm EST, I will be playing through Spire's End Card Game by Greg Favro. Join me as I discover this game with you - there is no rulebook, and I will only be reading the instruction cards before streaming, so that you can join in the game’s full experience! In this eldritch adventure, we use cards, dice, cubes and tiles to journey on an old gamebook-style adventure. Head over to www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to watch - link in bio.
Thank you to Greg for providing me with this copy of the game.
SPOILER WARNING: This game is story based, and I will be going through as much of the story as I can in this stream.
Box cover image from Spire’s End website.

27/02/2021

Livestream announcement! This Sunday, Feb 28th at 3pm EST, I will be live-streaming the solo game Orchard from Side Room Games by Mark Tuck, and the solo version of Okazaki Inc from Engro Games by Patrick Engro. Join me as I try to cultivate a plentiful orchard and replicate a particular DNA strand in these two engaging micro-games. Head over to www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie for the live play.

01/02/2021

I’m baaack! Livestream announcement!
This Friday, Feb 5th at 9pm, I will be playing the solo variant of The Grizzled by Fabian Riffaud and Juan Rodriguez, with art by Tignous, from CMON - this variant comes with the At Your Orders expansion.

Can three grizzled soldiers survive the horrors of trench life during The Great War? Luck and strategy will determine the outcome - join me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie to find out how I fare!

18/11/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow, Thursday Nov 19th at 4pm EST, I will be teaching and playing through the solitaire, dice-based, worker placement game Under Falling Skies by Tomáš Uhlír, from Czech Games Edition - join me as I attempt to save the world from an alien invasion the likes of which you’ve never seen before! Head over to www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to watch.

15/11/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow, Monday Nov 16th at 6pm EST, I will be streaming a Kickstarter preview of the space station-building game Star Scrappers: Orbital, designed by Jacob Fryxelius, published by Hexy Studio.

Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie, as I build my orbital, hoping to construct the best one possible. (The stream will feature playthroughs of both the “Peace” and “Competitive” versions.

Kickstarter link: https://bit.ly/2IHj46D

06/11/2020

Impromptu stream announcement! Tonight at 9:30pm EST - in recognition that this is NaNoWriMo - I will be live-streaming the word game Dexikon by Andrew Rowse from Eagle-Gryphon Games - a deck-builder that has you spelling words to buy more letters or score, but if you choose to score, you only get half the buying power. Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to see what words I come up with. (Not for sesquipedalophobes... 😉)

24/10/2020

Livestream announcement! Join me on Monday, October 26th at 11:30AM EST as I draft cards and get an engine going in the civ-building game “It’s A Wonderful World” from Lucky Duck Games, designed by Frédéric Guérard. Will I be successful in building my empire into a strong position for the future? Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to find out!

16/10/2020

I am honoured to be demonstrating Tim Hutchings’ Thousand Year Old Vampire at this year’s IndieCade - come and watch on their stream (www.twitch.tv/Indiecade) at 6pm EST this Sunday, the 18th! I’ll be starting a brand new story with a new vampire that I will continue on my stream. (Vampire generation will go straight to YouTube.)
You can watch for free, but you can also buy tickets to access more of Indiecade, and get a discount by using the promo code Happy2020! Tickets available at anywhere.indiecade.com!

06/10/2020

Livestream PLAY-ALONG! Join me on Wednesday, October 7th at 4pm EST to try out the brand new Cartographers Heroes by Jordy Adan and John Brieger from Thunderworks Games (going live on Kickstarter tomorrow, Tuesday 6th)!

Download the new map and the first map pack map (Nebblis) here: https://bit.ly/3itAy28 - and get your pencils ready to map out the new land!

I will play one game of Cartographers, one of Heroes, and one using the Nebblis map.

Head over to www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to be part of the game!

Thank you to Tim Virnig for allowing me to share the maps so you can play with me!

29/09/2020

Livestream announcement! Thursday, Oct 1st at 6:00pm EST, I will be streaming a solo playthrough of In Too Deep from Burnt Island Games - join me as I work as a secret agent looking to bring down a criminal syndicate from within, while trying not to go in too deep! Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie. Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/burntislandgames/in-too-deep-reboot.

27/09/2020

Streaming today, Sept 27th! At 10:15pm EST, I will be playing through a solo game of Snowdonia from Indie Boards and Cards by Tony Boydell - an excellent worker placement game that sees you building a railroad up Mt Snowdon! This is one of the first solo worker placements I got, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you! Join me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie.

20/09/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow, Sunday September 20th at 9:30pm EST I will be streaming Marvel United from CMON and Spin Master Global and by Eric Lang and Andrea Chiarvesio - a game I have been so excited for! The Avengers assemble for the S.H.I.E.L.D. solo mode to take on the threat of one of the three villains in the core box (with SO many more coming next year!). Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to see what happens!

09/09/2020

I’m back! Here’s a livestream! Tomorrow, Weds Sept 9th at 4:30pm EST, I will be streaming playthroughs of Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition and Terraforming Mars. We’ll be trying to save the world from a cosmic horror first in an investigative, story-driven adventure, and when we inevitably succumb to the eldritch doom, we’ll head off to Mars and try to make it habitable for humanity in a card-driven resource management game! I’m indulging in a couple of my favourite games for my birthday stream. 😊 Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie.

Fantasy Flight Games
Stronghold Games

07/08/2020

Livestream announcement! Saturday, August 8th at 9pm EST, I will be streaming a playthrough of Witches of the Revolution from Atlas Games by M. Craig Stockwell. A Coven of Witches is preparing to fight off the British in the Revolution in this deck-building game, but will they succeed? Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to find out!

My thanks to Atlas Games for sending me a copy of the game to use for my stream!

02/08/2020

Livestream redo. After technical difficulties caused me trouble this morning, I will be redoing my livestream of Roll Camera! tomorrow, Sunday August 2nd at 5pm EST!

Join me for this dice-based worker placement game that sees players working to design, shoot and edit a film before their budget or the schedule runs out!

Head over to www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to catch it.

This is a Kickstarter preview - the Kickstarter is live until Monday here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/malachi-rempen/roll-camera-the-filmmaking-board-game

29/07/2020

Livestream announcements!

Tomorrow, July 30th at 11:30am EST, I will be streaming a playthrough of the city-building game Ex Novo from Sharkbomb Studios, a pencil-and-paper game that sees you developing a city completely, so that it could be ready for use as a setting for other games and RPGs.

Saturday, August 1st at 11:30am EST, I will be streaming a solo play of the dice-based, film-making game Roll Camera! from Keen Bean Studio. This is a game about shooting a film, with he hope that it will be at least acceptable, if not a masterpiece, or it will be so bad it’s actually good! It is currently on Kickstarter, and I will do a full playthrough of a solitaire game.
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/malachi-rempen/roll-camera-the-filmmaking-board-game

Join me for both streams at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie.

27/07/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow, July 27th at 9:30pm EST, I will be streaming a partial playthrough of the solo puzzle game Relics of Rajavihara by Joe Slack from Crazy Like a Box. This is a Kickstarter in progress, which ends on Friday at 10am.

Explore the temple of Rajavihara to find the gems while your nemesis also tries to summon the spirits of the temple!

This is a block puzzle realised as a solo campaign that sees you manipulating crates and other block types to reach gems or impede the nefarious Professor Montalo.

Join me at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to check the game out!

13/07/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow morning, Tuesday July 14 at 11:30am EST, I will be live-streaming the solo RPG Alone Among the Stars by Takuma Okada. This is a zen journey from planet to planet, exploring the marvels, beauty and perils of each destination. Come and join me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie.

11/07/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow, July 11 at 3:30pm EST, I will be streaming tutorial-playthroughs of Shakespeare from Ystari Games and The Pursuit of Happiness from Artipia Games - both excellent worker placement games. In Shakespeare, you have six days to write a play before Queen Elizabeth comes to watch it, and in Pursuit, you have to try to live the best life possible! Join me at http://twitch.tv/onceuponadie to see what happens!

07/07/2020

Livestream announcement! Impromptu short livestream tonight as my plans for tomorrow have changed a little. Tonight at 8:45pm EST I will be live-streaming a playthrough of Deep Space D-6 from Tau Leader Games. This solitaire, dice-based, worker placement game sees you trying to survive a trap that you have unwittingly led your spacecraft and it’s crew into. Can I hold out until the rescue fleet arrives? Join me tonight at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponaDie to find out!

15/06/2020

Livestream announcement! Today, June 15th, 10:15pm EST. Our vampire is getting older, and it’s time to continue his story. Join me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie for part 3 of my playthrough of Thousand Year Old Vampire by
TimHutchings FTW. This is incredible experience, and I can't wait to see where it takes me next! Hope to see you there.

29/05/2020

Livestream announcement!
May 29 @ 9pm EST - Coffee Roaster
May 30 @ 1pm EST - part 2 of Thousand Year Old Vampire
- Coffee Roaster is a solo bag-building game from Stronghold Games where you try to brew the perfect cup of coffee by slowly roasting beans without going too far, and trying to hit the right flavour profile.
- Thousand Year Old Vampire is a solo RPG by Tim Hutchings where you play through the life of a vampire, from turning to death, across a wide variety of prompts. Part 1 available on my YouTube channel (https://youtu.be/w2Si_9l-ePo).
Catch the streams at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie

16/05/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow, May 17th at 11:00pm EST. This one will be a little different. This will be part one of a playthrough of the solo RPG Thousand Year Old Vampire, designed by Tim Hutchings. During the course of one game, you create a vampire and play through their millennium-long life, creating memories and making difficult choices as you give in to your undead nature! Part two will stream next week. Join me at http://www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie.

11/05/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow, May 12 at 8:30pm EST I will be live-streaming Leaving Earth from The Lumenaris Group, Inc. - with 20 years to achieve our goals, we strive to be the first to conquer space, testing rockets and systems, and shooting (quite literally) for the moon. Join me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie.

04/05/2020

Livestream announcement! Today, May 4 at 1:30pm EST, I will be live-streaming FUSE and it’s sequel game, Flatline - both by Kane Klenko from Renegade Game Studios - these are two real-time games that I absolutely love. Defuse bombs set on your spaceship and then work to save those who were injured! Join me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie.

28/04/2020

Livestream play-along announcement! Tomorrow, April 29 at 6:00pm EST, I will be live-streaming an “Isolation Trio” - three games released as print-and-plays by designers to be played during quarantine:

- Gentle Rain by Kevin Wilson
- Super Skill Pinball 4-cade forthcoming from WizKids and Geoff Engelstein
- and Rolling Realms by Jamey Stegmaier of Stonemaier Games

3 wonderful, short games, easily played at home, and just requiring a couple of pages to be printed.

You can even play along with the last two! Join in at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponADie

Downloads:
Gentle Rain (via Kevin’s Twitter): https://bit.ly/3aMHBz8
Super Skill Pinball 4-cade: https://bit.ly/3d0ZzPJ
Rolling Realms: https://bit.ly/2W6B4dp

26/04/2020

Livestream announcement! Today, Sunday April 26 at 2pm EST I will be teaching and playing through Chrononauts from Looney Labs - this time-travelling card game sees you trying to change historical events to create alternate realities and help get characters home to their own versions of the world. Tune in at www.twitch.tv/OnceUponADie.

23/04/2020

EDIT: Time change - starting at 10:30pm.

Livestream announcement! Today, April 23 at 10:30pm EST I will be streaming a tutorial and playthrough of Black Sonata from Side Room Games - a one-player, hidden-movement game that sees you trying to deduce the identity of the enigmatic Dark Lady from Shakespeare’s sonnets. Join me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie.

Railroad Ink from CMON and Horrible Guild - solo tutorial and playthrough

17/04/2020

Livestream announcement! Friday April 17 at 11:45am EST, I am going to livestream a tutorial and playthrough of the different variations of Railroad Ink from CMON and Horrible Guild - an amazing roll-and-write that has lots of gameplay and four different expansions, all in two small boxes!

You can even play along if you have a copy of the game, or if you draw out a 7x7 grid!

Head over to www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie
(I know the stream info shows Thunderbirds - it will be Railroad Ink!)

Thunderbirds from Modiphius Entertainment - solo tutorial and playthrough

09/04/2020

Livestream announcement! Tomorrow (April 9) at 5:30pm EST I will be streaming my most ambitious game playthrough yet: Nemo’s War (2nd Ed.) from Victory Point Games - I love this adventure game based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and it’s sure to be a blast to play live. Come on over to twitch.tv/onceuponadie and let’s see what happens!

01/04/2020

01/04/2020

Hey everyone! Once Upon a Die is slowly coming back together, but where my plans were in motion, I am of course unable to get people together to record. So I know I'm far from alone in joining the Twitch community recently, but I have done so, and will be streaming teaches and playthroughs of games with solo modes. I have already done a couple of videos, and I'm confident enough now to tell people about it! I would love it if you would follow me at www.twitch.tv/onceuponadie. Podcast will come back as soon as I plan alternative episodes. :)

Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crécy from Portal Games - solo tutorial and playthrough (Testament variant)