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Thursday, November 2 - Sunday, November 5, 2017
At the Hyatt Regency Morristown & Conference Center in Morristown, New Jersey
BOARD & CARD GAMING SCHEDULE for METATOPIA 2017Updated 11/2/17 at 4:30PM EDT - THIS IS THE FINAL UPDATE.
The Big Board is now active at the physical convention. We can no longer process event reservations through email.
 [FILLED] B097: [BETA TEST] "Cards of Impact: Choose Your Destiny" by CBR Solutions; presented by Grant Peirce. Engage. Choose. Win by growing from strength to strength. Impact your relationships! This character-based card game will challenge your assumptions about your instincts and values. You will know yourself and your fellow players in new and intriguing ways. Successful players will seize their destiny! This game uses reality-based Challenge, Choice, and Character cards. Players choose from variations of the game based on age, skill level, time, competitive/collaborative modes, and what is most fun for them! Created by Susanne - a relationship coach, Grant - a psychometrician, and Johann - a financial analyst. The world is a crazy place, so we decided to create a reality-based card game to help us survive, connect, and thrive. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B098: [BETA TEST] "Cartrigia" by Wandering Hearth Games; presented by Bill Lasek. A retro tile based light dungeon crawler with the feel of classic RPGs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, and Zelda. Players control a group of 1 to 6 asymetrical heroes while they explore the dungeon, battle classic monsters, gain valuable items, and if they're good enough - and can stay alive long enough - defeat the Dungeon Lord. Features multiple difficulty levels from easy to epic - no two games the same! Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B099: [BETA TEST] "Devil from the Sea" by Cardboard Edison; presented by Chris Zinsli, Suzanne Zinsli. A fully cooperative game where players work together to defend their Scottish isle from the mythic beast known as the Nuckelavee. You'll have to plan your moves carefully to build up your strength all while avoiding the monster's worst attacks. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B100: [BETA TEST] "Everyone's a Suspect" presented by Kristin Firth. It's a small town and somebody has been murdered. Everyone is a suspect. Including everyone at this table. *Especially* everyone at this table. This is a card-based mystery game, in the tradition of storytelling games (like Once Upon a Time). Taking turns, we will tell the story of a group of characters in a murder victim's life and how the murder affects them. The murderer will be determined at the end of the game. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B101: [BETA TEST] "Gizmos" presented by Randall Buck. Control a powerful association of sentient machines as it explores a new world, competes for raw materials, and evolves. Players will use a simple tile laying mechanism to determine the powers and abilities of each piece, or gizmo, that they bring into play. Every tile also contributes to the growing terrain as well as to a novel resource generation system, giving players control over every aspect of the game board as it develops. Victory is achieved by gathering and cleverly managing resources. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B102: [BETA TEST] "Human Era" by Lay Waste Games; presented by Jake Given. A social deduction game where you and your crew are aboard the last time machine to save space and time from the chaos unleashed by the haphazard time traveling of humans. However, among your crew are machines and cyborgs disguised as humans with their own goals in mind. Achieve your goal of repairing or destroying the space-time continuum before fuel runs out! Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B103: [BETA TEST] "Lords of Shadowtree" by Grim Fantasy Games; presented by Conner Cole. An adventure strategy board game. Players take on the role of a Lord seeking to either establish their kingdom first or slay all other players for domination. However, monsters roam near and far, wreaking havoc upon all in their way. Foes might be forced band together to survive, only to then backstab each other, or align for mutual victory. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B104: [BETA TEST] "Miner Rings" presented by Charlie Hoopes. A pick-up-and-deliver game where players can move the destinations. You are captain of a freighter making deliveries between space stations orbiting a ringed planet. Earn the best reputation by hauling the most cargo and colonists between space stations. Sometimes it is best to fly your rocket to a space station, others it will be more efficient to move the space station to your rocket. While using fuel will get you there quicker, your supply is limited, so choose wisely when to burn and when to conserve. In this game, everyone shares the same dice rolls, so you can't blame how you roll. Miner Rings is an evolution of Planet Chasers, a finalist in the 2016 Cardboard Edison prototype of the year award. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B105: [BETA TEST] "Missile Silo" by Outboard; presented by John Atwood. A multi-room, group game about the stress, morality, and tragedy of nuclear war. Players divide into three rooms and begin a real-time, gamified dramatization of a chilling situation. The game starts at the precipice of a world war. Teams represent two of the nine countries that presently possess a nuclear arsenal. The remaining countries are represented as NPCs. Missile commanders are sequestered in closed rooms that represent isolated, underground missile silos. Other players are the presidents of the two nations. As world events evolve, the presidents must make strategic decisions related to the use of their devastating weaponry. The encrypted messages the silo teams receive require puzzle-solving skills in order to decode. The choices made by the presidents and the missile commanders will determine the fate of civilization. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 8 seats left.
B106: [BETA TEST] "ORDS" by EverTech Products; presented by Felix Cruz. Galactic Strategy and Tactical Board/Card Game. Win the game by eliminating all opponents and becoming Emperor/Empress of the Milky Way Galaxy. Includes a short version of play to allow a winner within a couple of hours. Players move their token pieces around the board by spaceships, weapon cards, Star Systems (Star cards), and win Yeps (monies), etc. Players will transport, at a cost, spaceships into different Galactic Quadrants to challenge opponents to battle to control Galactic Quadrants, conquer Star Systems (Star cards), destroy opponents' spaceships, and win Quadrant prizes. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B107: [ALPHA TEST] "Pre-Wild" by Flatout Games; presented by Shawn Stankewich. A co-operative tile-laying, pool-building game. In Pre-wild players take on the role of ancient woodland creatures who must fight against the pollution and greed of an ancient human civilization to create the wilderness we know today. During the day, the animals must manage resources as they move throughout the land, returning the corrupt cities to nature and building shelter against the impending attacks...for when night falls, the cities lash out and raid the natural areas and the animals who occupy them. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B108: [BETA TEST] "Reigning Cats and Dogs" presented by Wayne Bowmanchester. This light strategy game starts with a group of animals escaping from the pound, each one with the belief that they should be the to rule the neighborhood. Race your competitors to mark your territory, steal areas from your enemies, and explore your community. The fur will fly until the winning pet is crowned! Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B109: [BETA TEST] "Sharknado: The Board Game!" by Devious Devices, LLC; presented by Anthony Rando. The officially-licensed tabletop game of the cult-hit franchise, Sharknado: The Board Game! is a cooperative, scenario-based game for 2 to 4 players, ages 15 and up. Players assume the roles of brave citizens of a coastal city, working together to battle hordes of man-eating sharks as they attempt to thwart the ultimate weather phenomenon! Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B110: [BETA TEST] "Smirk & Dagger Smash Lab" by Smirk & Dagger Games; presented by Curt Covert. Four good games that need to be great. Break em and build them to new heights. Rescue dogs at a shelter and find them the perfect home / Bluff the biggest Fish Tale ever / Robbery gone very, very bad. And more. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B111: [BETA TEST] "Thing Quest" presented by Michael Scott Matecha. Word manipulation meets story improv! The players (wizards) will pull 1 card from each of 3 common decks of sleeved word cards (things) on which they will use their magic (dry erase pens) to add, remove or change letters and create new words (useful items and spell effects) to overcome the encounter cards with magic arts (light storytelling improv). The players win when everyone reaches a certain number of successes encouraging players to support those lagging behind. Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B112: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 7 seats left.
B113: [BETA TEST] "VerboCity" presented by Travis Magrum, Jonathan Gilmour. Players are spelling words to put tiles into their city. The bigger the word you spell, the more tiles you can move into your city. Compete to build the best city! Friday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B123: [BETA TEST] "#refugee card game" by Forstle LLC; presented by Thomas Mon. A turn-based strategy card game in which players assume the roles of countries attempting to address an acute global influx of refugees. Players take turns discovering certain facts and pieces of information about each refugee. Leveraging this knowledge, players then make choices on how best to manage the effects that these refugees will have on the security of their borders and countries. #refugee card game affords players flexibility the form of alternate win-conditions as well as ad-hoc collaboration in games with more than 2 players. Will you try to allow as many refugees as possible into your country or will you try to eliminate your opponents by redirecting "undesirable" refugees away from your borders? Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B124: [BETA TEST] "Art 101" by WizKids; presented by Zev Shlasinger. Hi, Class! Welcome to your first day of Art 101. Throughout this course you will be using color theory to make a mosaic. While this is a group project, you will be graded individually. Your grade for this course will be the combination of your participation and project scores. Get to work and make your mosaic. In Art 101, players will roll dice that will determine which mosaic tiles they get and which color theory is available to them. Mix, substitute, and gain colors as well as use the color wheel for complementary, adjacent, and triatic color shifts. Use the colors you gain to add to the mosaic. Building quickly is important but so is the size of areas you are playing. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B125: [BETA TEST] "Bigfoot vs. Yeti" by Shoot Again Games; presented by Diane Sauer. A battle is brewing between the undisputed king of the cryptids Bigfoot and his stone cold cousin the Yeti, who is sick of being left out in the cold playing second fiddle. In Bigfoot vs. Yeti you are an up and coming cryptozoologist mounting expeditions in the hopes of proving the existence of unknown creatures such as Bigfoot, Yeti, The Loch Ness Monster, the Jersey Devil or Chupacabra. Somehow you have landed smack dab in the middle of a feud between Bigfoot and Yeti so it's time to choose your side as it will help shape the fate of your research and ultimately your success! Note - We are testing bonus cards for Kickstarter. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B126: [BETA TEST] "Communique" by Cardboard Edison; presented by Chris Zinsli, Suzanne Zinsli. Your team of Cold War spies has to interpret a series of coded messages--or communiques--to hit three checkpoints all while avoiding a growing number of enemy agents. If you enjoy team clue-giving games like Codenames, Mysterium and Spyfall, this is the game for you! Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B127: [BETA TEST] "Doomsday Prepper" by Strange Theory Games; presented by Jeff Fraser. The end is nigh! Doomsday Prepper is a comedic tableau-building game where you try to prepare for the end of the world - and see who can last the longest! In the preparation phase, you'll recruit fellow survivalists to help build a bunker and stock up on enough food, morale, and useful items to last for years underground. Once Doomsday hits, you'll see how long your supplies last and how well you can deal with disasters that befall you and your bunkermates. The last player standing is declared the winner. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B128: [ALPHA TEST] "Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar" by Restoration Games, LLC; presented by Justin Jacobson. The original game of kinetic mayhem came out in 1986. This restored version features fully revamped play with some light programming, hand management, take that, and press-your-luck. Players race around the island, gathering (or stealing) treasures, all the while dodging a host of hazards but mostly FIREBALLS. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B129: [BETA TEST] "First Responders, Inc." by Loremaster Games; presented by Ryan Schoon. Play as one of the four corporations competing to privatize First Reponse units in the distant future. Prove that you deserve the city's exclusive contract by building and upgrading your fleet of police, fire, and medical vehicles, hiring dispatchers to increase response time, responding to emergencies, completing crisis cards, and working towards secret objectives. Each corporation has a unique feel with variable powers and player boards in this light Euro-inspired board game. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B130: [BETA TEST] "Human Sacrifice" by Aggressively Playable Games; presented by Noah Anderson. You are a member of the Community of United Local Townsfolk. Help your fellow CULTists prepare for the coming of the Dark One in the light, fun card game where death isn't an obstacle, reading from the book is a given, and evil always wins. A competitive/cooperative card game. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B131: [BETA TEST] "I Hunger" by Labyrinth Games; presented by Nicholas Malinowski. Yet another board game of Zombie Survival. Though with this one there is a twist. You are the Zombie trying to survive. Come shamble through the streets trying to evolve and escape. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B132: [BETA TEST] "It Figures" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Kiva Fecteau. A game system that resembles Boggle, but for math, and with the flexibility to let you play the way you want to. Roll dice into a grid or a circle, add extra rules or challenges to each round, or play the set collection variant where you have to include or exclude specific elements. Only unique equations allow you to score. This game can make you math differently every time you play it! Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B133: [BETA TEST] "Lazer Ryderz: Expansions" by Cardboard Fortress Games; presented by Anthony Amato, Nicole Kline. It's season 2 of the radical 80s trackless racing game LAZER RYDERZ! After passing through the dimensional portals, our heroes find themselves in The Danger Zone. Test out strange new phenomena, exciting new characters, and the effects of terrain in our upcoming expansion. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B134: [BETA TEST] "Mayday Mixup" by Mayday Games; presented by Daniel Peterson. Join Daniel Peterson from Mayday Games to look at two potential new titles! Roman Riot by Erik Dresner is a real time sorting game where players compete to build the Ancient Roman Monuments. Will you quickly outsmart your opponents and place your building resources in the correct spots first? Brilliance by Nate Jones is a gem market game. The gem market is a volatile place. The cost of Gems change constantly. You are placing cards to acquire Gems. Cards placed also change the cost of the gems. Can you sell high and lower the cost of other players gems? Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B135: [BETA TEST] "Microtanks" presented by Michael Scott Matecha. A complete WWII miniatures tank battle that fits in your pocket! Cloth map, 22 cards, 24 markers, 4 dice, rules and 20 3d metal miniature tanks that fit in...a standard poker card box! The intended audience is mid-hardcore gamers. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B136: [BETA TEST] "Midnight at the Well of Souls" by Critical-Hits Studios LLC; presented by David Chalker. You've gone through a Markovian Gate and emerged on the Well World, a planet-sized computer made up of hexes, each of which contains its own alien lifeform and biosphere. Explore the Well World and piece together clues to find the Well of Souls, the key to unmatched power over reality, in this adventure/puzzle board game, based on the novels by Jack L. Chalker. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B137: [BETA TEST] "Myth and Mettle" presented by ErikPeter Walker. A cooperative, monster-slaying card game set in Ancient Greece. The heroes attempt to slay three legendary monsters, like Chimera or Medusa. Tactically play cards to maneuver and attack, while mitigating the attacks of the monsters. Each hero and monster has their own unique abilities, encouraging players to explore new strategies from battle to battle. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B138: [BETA TEST] "Nassau" presented by Tim Armstrong. Build trade routes and fulfill orders in the Lucayan Archipelago. Nassau is a light strategy game that implements tile drafting/placement and resource management. Each trade route tile has its own trade action. Placing a new trade route not only triggers that tile's action, but also triggers certain adjacent tiles in a chain reaction. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B139: [BETA TEST] "NextNote" presented by Janna Bramhill. A fun way to learn music notes and a fun game to play even if you already know all your notes. Improve your speed at recognizing notes, octaves, note names, length, and building familiarity with chords and triads. Ideal for families with kids learning to read music and to complement musical instruction. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. [NDA REQUIRED] There are 5 seats left.
B140: [BETA TEST] "Nyctophobia" presented by Jonathan Gilmour. One player is a killer, the other players are being hunted in the woods. Try to survive and make it to the car before the hunter takes one of you down. This game has a unique twist that makes it unlike any other game of this type. This game is designed by Catherine Stippell, and being developed by Jonathan Gilmour. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B141: [BETA TEST] "Palette Gamut" by HitMouse Productions; presented by Joshua Ferraiuolo. A card game about collecting pigments and mixing paint. Collected pigments are combined with binders and solvents to form the colors according to their recipe. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B142: [BETA TEST] "Please Drive-Thru" by Split Brain Games; presented by Joel Colombo. Can you build a chain of fast food restaurants that meets the changing demands of customers on the busiest boulevard in town. Over a series of 3 dinner rush drive-thru phases, players will use simultaneous hidden action selection to manipulate their restaurants supplies, locations, inventory, and even influence customer demands. After 2-4 actions are taken, the customers drive thru and buy up as much of your supplies as they desire. The game uses a deep thinking strategy of measuring supply and demand and spacial positioning to make you the wealthiest Fast Food Drive-Thru empire in town. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B143: [BETA TEST] "Reigning Cats and Dogs" presented by Wayne Bowmanchester. This light strategy game starts with a group of animals escaping from the pound, each one with the belief that they should be the to rule the neighborhood. Race your competitors to mark your territory, steal areas from your enemies, and explore your community. The fur will fly until the winning pet is crowned! Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B144: [ALPHA TEST] "Rise of Shadow Moon" by Cap & Beard; presented by Nicholas Favia. Once every 103 years, a dark moon rises into the night sky, the Shadow Moon. It brings the darkness out of the corners of your room and The Shadow Lady's minions begin to seep in. Take on the role of children's toys and fight off hordes of shadows, keep them off the bed to keep the child safe! Can you protect the child from The Shadow Lady? Or will their spirit be dragged off to The Shadowlands only to be consumed? Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B145: [BETA TEST] "Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Jeffrey Van Ness. In Soaring Rhino's follow-up expansion to Shifting Realms, players delve into three new realms that can be added to the base game. Build towers that feed the demons and take control of fierce gargoyles. See what is new in Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B146: [BETA TEST] "Space Pirate Booty" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Craig Van Ness. It's time to gather your crew for a space pirate journey. In this tricky trick taking game, players bid for cards to complete their crew. Pirate meld cards, special score cards, and trick score cards make every round a different experience. Who will cleverly walk away with the most booty in this pirate card game from Soaring Rhino? Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B147: [BETA TEST] "The Duel: Point of Honor" by Ironmark Games; presented by Mike Sette. A 2 player tactical card game about robots fighting for honor. A story of dueling, which became a legend in the army, runs through the epic of imperial wars. To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage...also robots. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B148: [BETA TEST] "The Lion & The Eagle" by Arbor Games; presented by Jerry Wang. A World War II hybrid Euro/wargaming experience in which players relive some of the great strategic dilemmas that defined the contest between Albion's Lion and the Eagle of the Third Reich. Taking over in High Command, players will use their decks and the game board to plan their strategies, appoint Commanders and enact Policies, fight battles at sea and in the skies, and ultimately, achieve victory for their side. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B149: [BETA TEST] "The Stars May Swallow Us" by Tekkactus Games; presented by Jeff Gum. A modular hidden-role card game. Trapped on a broken down spacecraft with failing life support, players need to race against the clock to repair their engine before their air supply runs out, while also defending against attacks from the saboteur who caused this mess to begin with. If you've ever thought Werewolf could use some card counting deduction, or if Love Letter needed more accusatory pointing, this might be the testing session for you! Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 7 seats left.
B150: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 8 seats left.
B151: [BETA TEST] "Truckaroo" presented by Megan Knouff. Run your own food truck! Prices for ingredients change daily, so try to get the best deals and get the most customers. Hang on to repeat customers for extra bonuses! Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B152: [BETA TEST] "Z4X" presented by Zintis May-Krumins. Spread across the stars and become the strongest empire in the galaxy. Race the other players to achieve galactic objectives by exploring new sectors or fighting over established territory. Featuring gameplay elements from Eclipse, Concordia, multi-use cards, dice combat, and exploring the vastness of space. Friday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B172: [BETA TEST] "#refugee card game" by Forstle LLC; presented by Thomas Mon. A turn-based strategy card game in which players assume the roles of countries attempting to address an acute global influx of refugees. Players take turns discovering certain facts and pieces of information about each refugee. Leveraging this knowledge, players then make choices on how best to manage the effects that these refugees will have on the security of their borders and countries. #refugee card game affords players flexibility the form of alternate win-conditions as well as ad-hoc collaboration in games with more than 2 players. Will you try to allow as many refugees as possible into your country or will you try to eliminate your opponents by redirecting "undesirable" refugees away from your borders? Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B173: [BETA TEST] "...And John Kills Us All" by Legendsmiths; presented by Ryan O'Grady. A semi-cooperative trick-taking card game in which the players are psychic time travelers. They must prevent John from pushing the button and killing everyone, while still trying to achieve their secret objective. But watch out for the Nihilist - they win if everyone dies. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 0 seats left.
B174: [BETA TEST] "Agency" by Outboard; presented by John Atwood. A tense and breathless strategy card game that allows two to five players to explore a the ruthless underworld of espionage. There is a deck of agents and a deck of assets from which players draw and a field is created. You must think on your toes to make the best decisions with just two cards at the beginning of your turn. Will you confront an opponent, make contact with the field, or move assets to your safehouse? You advance by dominating the city. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B175: [BETA TEST] "Armies of Olympus" by Mayday Games; presented by Daniel Peterson. Players recruit armies and collect resources to destroy attacking Greek monsters. Can you out wit your opponents and destroy more monsters then them? A potential new Mayday title by Mark Hanny. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B176: [BETA TEST] "Big Top" presented by Dan Cassar. A two-player microgame that challenges players to manipulate circus performers like the Human Cannonball, the Tightrope Walker and the Strong Man to enable their own evil clown to escape the Big Top. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B177: [BETA TEST] "Capodecina" presented by Jessie Yaternick. A gangster card game where players try to build themselves a crew to successfully pull off heists. You can choose to work with other players to complete the crew and share the rewards of a job. You can help other players out of jail or the hospital but you also have the choice to rat them out, shoot them, or steal their crew members. The first player to obtain enough reputation becomes the new "Boss" and wins. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B178: [BETA TEST] "Cartrigia" by Wandering Hearth Games; presented by Bill Lasek. A retro tile based light dungeon crawler with the feel of classic RPGs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, and Zelda. Players control a group of 1 to 6 asymetrical heroes while they explore the dungeon, battle classic monsters, gain valuable items, and if they're good enough - and can stay alive long enough - defeat the Dungeon Lord. Features multiple difficulty levels from easy to epic - no two games the same! Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B179: [ALPHA TEST] "Chronicle of Kings" by Pendelhaven; presented by Andrew Valkauskas. Set during the Viking age in the Fate of the Norns universe. Players take on a dynasty of Viking rulers who wish to be immortalized in legend. Each turn spans several years, meaning that the bloodline will need to plan for marriage and children. Victory is achieved by being the bloodline with the most renown, and the game rewards players for memorable play. There are many ways to achieve renown, allowing players to pursue different paths to victory (ie. quests, military conquests, trade/raid, diplomatic intrigue, etc.). Rather than a mundane actions, players initiate scenes filled with drama, conflict and tension. All of the memories are created and situated upon a world map. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B180: [BETA TEST] Event Canceled. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B181: [BETA TEST] "Cupcake Clash" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Adam Fischer. A food fight breaks out and suddenly cupcakes are flying everywhere! Draft the most advantageous hand of cupcake cards, then lay them out so that each one is directed toward one of the other players, except one that you hold in reserve. Fling cupcakes to score points, eat them to get your energy back up, deflect them to another player, or just shield yourself from the mess. Guessing what other players are likely to do can help you arrange your own cards, but once airborne, who knows where a cupcake may land? Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B182: [BETA TEST] "Everyone's a Suspect" presented by Kristin Firth. It's a small town and somebody has been murdered. Everyone is a suspect. Including everyone at this table. *Especially* everyone at this table. This is a card-based mystery game, in the tradition of storytelling games (like Once Upon a Time). Taking turns, we will tell the story of a group of characters in a murder victim's life and how the murder affects them. The murderer will be determined at the end of the game. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B183: [BETA TEST] "F.L.O.W." by Wee Big Games; presented by Tam Myaing. A cooperative time-traveling game where you are an agent of F.L.O.W., the Federal Land and Oceanic Workforce, entrusted with maintaining the Temporal Continuum and the fate of the human race. Open time portals to pivotal locations in time, travel to these locations, and shape incidents to architect a favorable ripple effect through the continuum. Can you and your team of F.L.O.W. agents complete the directives before time runs out? Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B184: [BETA TEST] "Good Dog, Bad Zombie" by Make Big Things; presented by Hannah Shaffer. A cooperative game where Homeward Bound meets The Walking Dead. Together, you and your doggo pack will have to rescue enough hoomans in a crumbling metropolis and bring them back to the home you're building in Central Bark. Can you save enough people before you go feral and you forget what it means to feel the love of a hooman? Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B185: [BETA TEST] "Hero: Tales of the Tomes" presented by Jimmy Ellerth. A multiplayer card game in which each of the players takes the role of a legendary hero and battles it out until only one is left standing. All players play off of one shared deck together, so no prior deck building or collecting is required. The gameplay is fast and exciting. With all the potential for twists and comebacks, you'll never truly feel out of the game. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B186: [BETA TEST] "Heroball" by Mind Bullet Games; presented by Geoffrey Engelstein. What do superheroes do in their spare time? Play Heroball! Heroball is a simple, fast, and fun two-player game that brings the classic vibrating electric football game to a modern audience. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B187: [BETA TEST] "Imagine Majesty" by Imagine Majesty Productions, LLC; presented by Davin Loegering. A game with multiple play scenarios: 4X campaign, cooperative wave defense, and solo/team skirmish with sci-fi/fantasy and historical/epic fantasy components. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B188: [BETA TEST] "Martian Badlands" by Space Lion Games; presented by Sara Perry. In the Martian Badlands, there are no laws and the corporations know it. You are the original colonists of Mars fighting tooth and nail to protect your land as encroaching corporations try to take it from you. Work together with your eccentric neighbors to build your dice pool and successfully fend off the corporate thieves. Martian Badlands is a cooperative, dice building and worker placement game. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B189: [BETA TEST] "Mining Colony" presented by Anthony Fiumano. A Worker placement type game where each turn players are taking an action to help contribute to the Colony as a whole. At the end of 6 rounds the person who has contributed the most (gotten the most Victory Points) will have won. Players gain VP by Reproducing, Constructing Buildings, Crafting Items, Slaying Monsters, Gathering Animals, or creating Farms for the Colony. It's your adventure to do as you see fit. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B190: [BETA TEST] "Pinball Showdown: Wizard Mode Expansion" by Shoot Again Games; presented by Diane Sauer. Players are the pinball steering into a wide array of playfield devices while trying to score combinations, activate Wizard Mode and become the highest scoring pinball. To do this they must maintain a critical balance between speed and control. Go too slow and it will limit what you can score and put you at risk for draining, but go too fast and you may lose control! May the best pinball win! Experience pinball from the pinball's point of view. Score playfield devices, collide with other pinballs and score those sweet combos for bonuses. It's not as easy as it looks! Note - We are testing new devices, new combos and five player rules for the Wizard Mode expansion. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B191: [BETA TEST] "Plutocracy" presented by Chris Anderson. Six empires battle for dominance of the galaxy. But you don't control any of them. You are an influencer using your connections to manipulate all of the empires to your own benefit. Build up economies, start wars, expand control and, when it suits you, change sides and bring the empire you helped build crashing back down for a tidy profit. Plutocracy is a 4X game with a focus on manipulating economies. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B192: [BETA TEST] "QuestFour" presented by Robert Brown. Place one of your pieces, then turn any tile. It seems simple to win, just get four of your pieces in a row. But is it that simple? Players must think in multiple dimensions while adapting to an ever changing playing field. Just when you think you've won, your opponent can take it away with the twist of a board. QuestFour is a 4D spatial strategy game where players use their pieces in multiple dimensions while adapting to a dynamic playing field. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B193: [ALPHA TEST] "Rover" by Runaway Parade Games; presented by Gwen Ruelle. A new planet has been discovered and your company has dispatched a squadron of rovers to explore its surface and dig for precious minerals. Unfortunately your robots are not alone on the delivery ship, as a hard fought compromise has filled the cargo bay with hardware bearing the logos of several powerful corporations. Your company lawyers have informed you that the contract only guarantees cooperation on the delivery ship and mentions nothing about conduct on the surface. Direct your rover quickly and safely across the planet and fight back against your opponents by acquiring new cards and creating powerful combinations in this light hearted, deck building adventure that features a modular board and endless possibilities. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B194: [BETA TEST] "Russian Rocket Roulette" by Vanishing City Games; presented by John Dermody. Can you make it to space, and race to the stars? Or will your efforts catastrophically explode?! Only you and your competition can tell. Take a spin on this space race themed game! Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B195: [BETA TEST] "Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Jeffrey Van Ness. In Soaring Rhino's follow-up expansion to Shifting Realms, players delve into three new realms that can be added to the base game. Build towers that feed the demons and take control of fierce gargoyles. See what is new in Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B196: [BETA TEST] "Space Runners" presented by Robin Liu. A press your luck adventure card game. Each player selects a hero and tries to run through each location, encountering creatures and traps on the way, while he/she tries to lockdown the location for extra points. Space Runners can be played cooperatively or against each other in teams or free for all. A quick and fun game that is simple to pick up and play with family and friends. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B197: [BETA TEST] "Speculate" by Snowman Games; presented by Mike Schuller. Can you manage your resources in different stock market sectors to collect more fame and fortune than your opponents? This new trick taking game lets you manage your assets as different assets will be valued differently as the game progresses. Play testers will be asked to provide feedback on several rule variants as well as comment on the game. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B198: [BETA TEST] "Spirit Realms: Tengoku-SR" by The Raven & The Widow, LLC; presented by Ted Gerard. An army fort builder card game that revolves around a retelling of the gods as animal warrior spirits called Spirit Masters. Each warrior is Ruler of 1 of the 9 realms in the world of Tengoku, SR Prime being the first realm. Each realm is represented by a Spirit Master who comes with his own deck of power, each deck with it's own strengths and weakness. Players must protect their throne by defending their forts from being destroyed while attempting to capture their opponent's Throne. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B199: [BETA TEST] "Sword of Kings" by Red Knight Card Games; presented by Mathew Rutan. This game consists of 108 beautifully crafted cards. The goal for each knight is to build a unique tunnel to their dragon’s Lair. While building their tunnel, knights will discover various magical treasures and encounter friendly people to help them on their quest. At the same time, Knights will find evil creatures and various obstacles they can play on the other knights to slow their progress. Once inside the lair, knights must fight the dragon that is defending the sword. The first knight to defeat the dragon claims the Sword of Kings and wins the game. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B200: [BETA TEST] "T.I.G.A.R. 9000" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Craig Van Ness. The International Great Animal Race - In the distant future the TIGAR 9000 is the ultimate race. This game features to phases. The first phase players negotiate and build their decks. In the second phase they race. Who will win, the squirrel riding the cheetah, the chicken riding the pig, or maybe the lemur riding the rhino. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B201: [BETA TEST] "The Art of Mutiny" by The Art of Mutiny; presented by Benjamin Bral. A funny, pirate-themed bidding game, where you play as a disgruntled pirate on a pirate ship. You hate the captain, and you think you could be a much better captain than he is, but you need other crew members to agree with you. You therefore bribe other crew members (cards) into joining your side. Whoever convinces 8 crew members to join his/her side wins! Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Silly, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B202: [BETA TEST] "The Big Dig" by Flatout Games; presented by Shawn Stankewich. The Big Dig is a trick-taking, tableau-building, bag-pulling expedition into ancient buried chambers to uncover precious jewels. Players use character cards to win tricks and build their teams for the ultimate showdown when the legendary chamber is unearthed. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B203: [BETA TEST] "The Networks: Executives" by Formal Ferret Games; presented by Gil Hova. So you've run a TV network in The Networks. Big deal. Can you do it with an Executive? The Networks: Executives is the first major expansion for the strategy board game The Networks. In it, you'll choose an Executive who will give you a special power (and a special liability) during the game. Can you master your Executive's idiosyncrasies and come out on top? This is a BLIND TEST of the expansion's rulebook, so it helps to have played The Networks before! Friday, 2:00PM - 3:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B204: [BETA TEST] "Thing Quest" presented by Michael Scott Matecha. Word manipulation meets story improv! The players (wizards) will pull 1 card from each of 3 common decks of sleeved word cards (things) on which they will use their magic (dry erase pens) to add, remove or change letters and create new words (useful items and spell effects) to overcome the encounter cards with magic arts (light storytelling improv). The players win when everyone reaches a certain number of successes encouraging players to support those lagging behind. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B205: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 8 seats left.
B206: [BETA TEST] "Wayward Crowns" by Thursday Games; presented by Beth Erikson. A land of four kingdoms. A shattered empire. A balance to be restored. Chaos has spread and the courts are scattered. In Wayward Crowns, you must hunt down your kingdom's missing nobles, repair your ancient artifact and restore balance before the other players and before chaos takes over completely. In this board game, players will choose a kingdom (Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs or Spades), each with different skills. Players will then face encounters, earn magical items and explore the kingdoms to find and rescue their nobles. Players must be careful in their journey though, or the chaos could corrupt them. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B207: [BETA TEST] "WBW: World Beats Wrestling" by Single Helix Studios; presented by Noah Cohen. A rhythm based card game? Don't overthink, bid to the beat! WBW: World Beats Wrestling puts a new spin on blind bidding games by adding rhythm. Players start with cards numbered 1-8 in their hands, then put on a song and take turns playing cards face down onto any of four piles while keeping up with the beat. Because each player bids face down, you can see where people are putting their cards, but not where they're putting their value. Keeping up with the beat dishes up a delightful dollop of disorder, disrupts your plans and doles out laughs. Win a pile by having the highest sum once everyone’s cards are down to improve your reputation and win fans. Race to build your fan base so the league will let you win bigger matches and become the face of the WBW. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 3 seats left.
B208: [ALPHA TEST] "Writer's Room" presented by John Adamus. A card game where players compete against one another to try and develop the best storyline for a fictional TV pilot, using everything from Protagonists to Plot Twists in an effort to be the first Writer to successfully accomplish their goal. Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B209: [BETA TEST] "YouRateDogs" by Silverback Press; presented by Darren Watts. A fun, relatively light family card game for 3-6 players, licensed from and based on the popular WeRateDogs Twitter account, with adorable dog pictures and hilarious commentary from WeRateDogs creator Matt Nelson! Players draft dogs into their kennels, and then put them up for competition based on their "stats" like Floof, Sass, and Ears. Remember, they're all good dogs, Brent, so everybody's stats are at least 10/10 and go up from there (except for the dreaded Your Dog Is Actually A Baby Hippo In Disguise card!). Friday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B235: [BETA TEST] "A Sargasso Sea of Space (and others)" presented by Tim Hutchings. A melange of atypical card games, leaning toward the 'party' end of the fun meter. In A Sargasso Sea of Space describe alien artifacts discovered in a cosmic vortex, in Cryptoquick try to get a photograph of the notorious Big Foot, help Santa load his sled in Santa's Toyline, marvel at the desolation of the moon in "Basalt and Pumice" and more. These are all quick, easy games ranging from Alpha to Beta testing. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B236: [BETA TEST] "Because... CATS!" by Smirk & Dagger Games; presented by Curt Covert. You are a cat, doing cat things. Knocking things over, stealing things, clawing things to destruction... and driving your human insane as they try to clean up your mess. Why? Because... Cats! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B237: [BETA TEST] "Call to Ares" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Jeffrey Van Ness. The chaotic greek god of war, Ares, has called warriors from different times and cultures to his arena to determine who are the best fighters. In this dice-building game take control of two heroes and battle the enemy heroes in the arena to earn rewards from Ares. As you fight, search for artifacts, pay homage to Ares at his altars, and gain crowns of courage. Which heroes will prove the fiercest? Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 0 seats left.
B238: [BETA TEST] "Can We Talk?" by Gontza Games; presented by Ann Stolinsky. Joan Rivers made this saying famous. We're making it funny. Gontza Games' newest design is a combination of chatter, wits, and endurance. Can you talk about a subject for 30 seconds without stammering or pausing? Come play Can We Talk? to find out. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 6 seats left.
B239: [BETA TEST] Event Canceled. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 5 seats left.
B240: [BETA TEST] "Draught Draft/Flowerpot" presented by Zintis May-Krumins. Two short games from Zintis May-Krumins: Draught Draft is a quick card drafting game where the players take the role of bar owners, keeping their bars stocked to attract customers, and advertising to create new customers. Featuring multi-use cards and a 4 round pass-draft. Flower Pot is a quick card drafting/tableau building game where players take the role of flower shop owners fulfilling bouquet orders for clients. Pick up, stack, and re-order clear cards so the right flower colors are visible in your vases. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B241: [BETA TEST] "DRIVE-IN!" by Tabletop Tiki; presented by Daniel Kitchen. In this turn-based game, collect Ticket and Action Cards and battle for the best spots to park your cars on a game board reminiscent of a retro-style 1950's Drive-In Movie Theater. Download the free companion app (NOT required) to any smart phone or tablet device and magically transform the game board into a miniature Drive-In Theater complete with 15 classic 1950's sci-fi Movie Trailers. Collect Movie Cards to park during your favorite B Movies Trailers to earn bonus points. During intermissions you'll have a change to visit our delicious Snack Bar and earn extra points in a confection themed dice battle mini game. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B242: [FOCUS GROUP] "Fantasy Fantasy Football" presented by James Malloy. You are wealthy nobles who have entered into a social competition to claim the title of 'Most Excellent at Managing an Adventuring Party.' Hire on wizards and fighters and mercenary bands. Place bets within your social circle, trade adventurers, and backstab the other nobles against whom you compete. Only the strongest and most successful adventuring bands will earn the right to fight the greatest beasts of the land and win the greatest treasures. Surely that adventuring team will be flying your flag. Fantasy Fantasy Football is a party game in the style of The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen that uses an actual league of fantasy football as it's core mechanic. A loose rule-set helps you interpret the events of your weekly fantasy football matchup's into the tales of fantasy world. Friday, 4:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B243: [BETA TEST] "Faulty Maps" presented by Tim Armstrong. Four pirates are on the hunt for buried treasure! Bet on which pirate will get the closest and then stack the odds in your favor by secretly tampering with their treasure maps. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B244: [ALPHA TEST] "Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar" by Restoration Games, LLC; presented by Justin Jacobson. The original game of kinetic mayhem came out in 1986. This restored version features fully revamped play with some light programming, hand management, take that, and press-your-luck. Players race around the island, gathering (or stealing) treasures, all the while dodging a host of hazards but mostly FIREBALLS. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B245: [BETA TEST] "Gerrymandering" by Slightly Offensive Games; presented by Thomas Hornemann. All things being equal the next election could go either way. It's up to you to make sure it swings in your party's favor. Campaign to encourage your voters and discourage your opponent's, change voter trends, and manipulate political boundaries to make sure your party gets into office. Players rearrange, flip, and replace tiles while manipulating the borders that make up the districts in game about American politics. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B246: [BETA TEST] "Gladius" presented by Victoria Cana. A betting game about guts, glory, and gambling! Over the course of five rounds, players bet on teams of gladiators and play influence cards to alter the outcome of each event. Your goal is to make sure you're on the winning end by any means necessary. Can you outwit your opponents to profit off of the gladiatorial games, or will you be left empty-handed? Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B247: [BETA TEST] "Human Era" by Lay Waste Games; presented by Jake Given. A social deduction game where you and your crew are aboard the last time machine to save space and time from the chaos unleashed by the haphazard time traveling of humans. However, among your crew are machines and cyborgs disguised as humans with their own goals in mind. Achieve your goal of repairing or destroying the space-time continuum before fuel runs out! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B248: [BETA TEST] "In-App Purchases" by Ironmark Games; presented by Mike Sette. This family/casual game moves the popular (and infuriating) match three puzzle genre from the phone to the table. Players can "pay for power" just like in any "free" app, but they may end up getting more than they bargain for. In-App Purchases is perfect for casual gamers, and features intuitive mechanisms, and meaningful decisions. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B249: [BETA TEST] "Konspiracy in Kurdistan" presented by Noah Arjomand. Assemble a cabal of state officials, guerilla fighters and rogue agents in this aggressively satirical deck-building card game set in the Middle East. Gain an edge over rival factions by recruiting or assassinating their cadres and use your own cabal to plot lucrative conspiracies as you vie to control a newly independent Kurdistan. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 5 seats left.
B250: [BETA TEST] "Lazer Ryderz: Expansions" by Cardboard Fortress Games; presented by Anthony Amato, Nicole Kline. It's season 2 of the radical 80s trackless racing game LAZER RYDERZ! After passing through the dimensional portals, our heroes find themselves in The Danger Zone. Test out strange new phenomena, exciting new characters, and the effects of terrain in our upcoming expansion. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B251: [BETA TEST] "Mamma Maxie's Midway" presented by David Joria. A light Worker Placement Board Game - You are a booth owner at Mamma Maxie's Midway, looking to expand your corner of the carnival. Will you focus on flash or substance? Will you give the rubes a family-friendly experience, or cheat them out of every last penny? Can you rake in enough tickets to inherit the key to the midway? Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B252: [BETA TEST] "Meeple Party" by 9th Level Games; presented by Heather O'Neill. Tonight you are throwing a party with your roommates! Will it go down in history as the BEST PARTY EVER?! In this cooperative strategy board game you take advantage of photo opportunities to keep the party cranking while trying to avoid disasters that could end the party! Once there are 3 disasters it's 3 strikes you're out! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B253: [BETA TEST] "Microtanks" presented by Michael Scott Matecha. A complete WWII miniatures tank battle that fits in your pocket! Cloth map, 22 cards, 24 markers, 4 dice, rules and 20 3d metal miniature tanks that fit in...a standard poker card box! The intended audience is mid-hardcore gamers. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B254: [BETA TEST] "New Beeginnings" by Blue Fairy Games; presented by Matt Parish. It is Springtime in the local beehive and the queen is ready to swarm to seek out and establish a new home. To prepare, she is holding a competition for the hive to see which bees are best fit to go with her. As a player, you take on the role of a team of bees competing in this game. Can you be more efficient than your opponents in collecting resources for the hive, manage new growth, and protecting the hive from danger and disease? Only the best will get to go with the queen on this new adventure! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B255: [BETA TEST] "NextNote" presented by Janna Bramhill. A fun way to learn music notes and a fun game to play even if you already know all your notes. Improve your speed at recognizing notes, octaves, note names, length, and building familiarity with chords and triads. Ideal for families with kids learning to read music and to complement musical instruction. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. [NDA REQUIRED] There are 6 seats left.
B256: [BETA TEST] "Nocturnes" by Branum Games; presented by Tiffany Branum. In this tile-based game, you are all research subjects trapped in a nightmarish dream state, trying to stay sane. As the nightmare expands, you will begin to lose your sanity. Travel across the nightmare tiles and use cards from your hand to impact game play. Try holding onto your sanity as long as possible because the last person with any left is the only one who wakes up psychologically intact! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B257: [BETA TEST] "ORDS" by EverTech Products; presented by Felix Cruz. Galactic Strategy and Tactical Board/Card Game. Win the game by eliminating all opponents and becoming Emperor/Empress of the Milky Way Galaxy. Includes a short version of play to allow a winner within a couple of hours. Players move their token pieces around the board by spaceships, weapon cards, Star Systems (Star cards), and win Yeps (monies), etc. Players will transport, at a cost, spaceships into different Galactic Quadrants to challenge opponents to battle to control Galactic Quadrants, conquer Star Systems (Star cards), destroy opponents' spaceships, and win Quadrant prizes. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B258: [BETA TEST] "Party Fowl" by Hebanon Games; presented by Caleb Stokes. An area-control, modular-board card game designed for a party atmosphere. In the game, players assume the role of students at Duck U. It's the week before finals, and these ducks need to party! But partying is a delicate art, where the leader of the flock can quickly turn into a real lame duck. If you can navigate the social rapids, it only takes one great night to become big duck on campus. In Party Fowl, you move your duck around the house and start conversations that make you the life of the party. Just watch out for those basic hens and duck bois looking to sabotage your fun! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B259: [BETA TEST] "Pod People" presented by Chris Anderson. Some strange things have been going on in town lately. Some people aren't acting like themselves. It's almost as if they have been changed into Pod People! Pod People is a social deduction game where all players start human, but soon some will be secretly changed to Pod People. You must work with your fellow players to go around town and collect items to complete missions before the Pod People take over. But who can you trust? Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 10 seats left.
B260: [BETA TEST] "Salvage" presented by Nolan James. A space-themed strategy game where you collect sets of stray 'Ship Parts' from the board. Armed with Movement, Rotation, Attack, and Defense cards, players maneuver between debris to outwit and disarm their opponents. The first player to put their ship back together and escape wins! We're testing a smaller board for 2-3 players. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B261: [BETA TEST] "Seek and Go Hyde" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. A territory control game of dual moralities. Play as famous mad scientists of the 1800s and their assistants as you rummage through the recently deceased Henry Jekyll's home in search of his discoveries. But your assistants are thirsty, and we all know where that leads... Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B262: [BETA TEST] "Show & Tile" by Jellybean Games; presented by Peter Hayward. Can't draw? No problem! Show & Tile is a Pictionary-like game with no artistic talent required. Instead of making your artwork with a pen and pencil, you use tangram tiles! Get your ideas into shape in this fast, fun, creative party game. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B263: [BETA TEST] "Simple Machines" presented by Doug Levandowski. You and your fellow engineers are confronted with weird problems every day, and you have to design machines to solve them. In this loud, wacky party game, you and your team compete to draw the best machines to solve the problem the judges throw at you - all while using the materials they tell you to use and suffer the drawbacks they make you suffer! After you draw it, the judges will interpret your plans and choose a winner. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 7 seats left.
B264: [BETA TEST] "Superluminal" by Strange Theory Games; presented by Jeff Fraser. An epic sci-fi strategy game where 3-6 heavily asymmetric factions battle for control of an artificial wormhole system that connects the Milky Way together. To win, you’ll need to spread your influence across sectors and planets, build up your economy and military forces, form alliances with other players, and use your faction’s unique abilities to overpower or outwit your enemies. This 4X game uses token-based simultaneous action-selection similar to Game of Thrones: The Board Game or Forbidden Stars, with heavy emphasis on diplomacy and tactical positioning. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B265: [BETA TEST] "Symposium" presented by Dan Cassar. A game about competing scientific theories. Is phlogiston theory going to explain combustion? Or is Oxygen Theory going to sway public opinion? Will studies prove that disease is caused by exposure to miasma (bad air)? Or will the scientific community embrace Germ Theory? This medium-weight, traditional-feel card game casts players as patrons of the sciences in the early days of the Age of Reason. The patrons seek to back the right theory at the right time through two scoring rounds - first a local Colloquium, then at game end, the Great Symposium. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B266: [BETA TEST] "T.I.G.A.R. 9000" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Craig Van Ness. The International Great Animal Race - In the distant future the TIGAR 9000 is the ultimate race. This game features to phases. The first phase players negotiate and build their decks. In the second phase they race. Who will win, the squirrel riding the cheetah, the chicken riding the pig, or maybe the lemur riding the rhino. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B267: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B268: [ALPHA TEST] "Towering Flight" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Kiva Fecteau. There's nothing dragons like more than to spend a lazy morning catching a thermal and flying as high as they can. But even in their leisure activities, dragons are known to be somewhat competitive. "Towering Flight" is one game being developed for possible inclusion in a set that will use a common tarot-size deck of dragon cards. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B269: [BETA TEST] "Truckaroo" presented by Megan Knouff. Run your own food truck! Prices for ingredients change daily, so try to get the best deals and get the most customers. Hang on to repeat customers for extra bonuses! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B270: [BETA TEST] "Vinyl" presented by Eric Alvarado. Players are aspiring vinyl collectors. They have a glimpse of knowledge of what they would like to collect, but immediately get immersed into the experience. Players will acquire morsels of information after visiting the "Mag Rack". That information will lead them to the bins where they select albums to add and expand their collection. Albums can be played at the listening booth to future increase the value of a player's collection and their ability to collect even more albums. Unfortunately, the inventory is limited and other customers may be after the same vinyl gems. After the final round is concluded, players will tally their collection's value and determine who is the Elite Vinyl Collector! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B271: [BETA TEST] "Wayward" presented by Jonathan Gilmour. A cooperative game where players are a group of powered teenagers in Japan fighting Yokai to protect the threads of fate. Based on the Image Comic Book written by Jim Zub. Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B272: [BETA TEST] "Wizards With Bazookas" by Outboard; presented by John Atwood. A fast, high-energy, rowdy, rules-light, slugfest card game for two players in a new genre we call a "real-time deck-builder." Your wizard has spells to cast and a bazooka to fire, so take aim at your opponent along their wizard line and let all hell break loose. You'll begin with a fixed deck then find upgrades as you wander the battlefield. As the frenzy of the battle escalates, your abilities will become fine-tuned and explosive. You are, of course, sagacious, but to win this fight you'll have to be good with a gun as well. Speed and dexterity must be wedded with strategy and instinct in order to make it out alive. Have faith and give it your best shot! Friday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B307: [BETA TEST] "A Sargasso Sea of Space (and others)" presented by Tim Hutchings. A melange of atypical card games, leaning toward the 'party' end of the fun meter. In A Sargasso Sea of Space describe alien artifacts discovered in a cosmic vortex, in Cryptoquick try to get a photograph of the notorious Big Foot, help Santa load his sled in Santa's Toyline, marvel at the desolation of the moon in "Basalt and Pumice" and more. These are all quick, easy games ranging from Alpha to Beta testing. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B308: [BETA TEST] "Block Game" presented by Jonathan Gilmour. In this Cooperative game with a possibility of a hidden traitor, Players are corporate drones in a dystopian future performing a team-building exercise for their corporation. They will have to work together to build a structure using limited information, with the possibility that one of them is not working with the group's best interest in mind. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B309: [BETA TEST] "Born to Serve" by Shoot Again Games; presented by Diane Sauer. Players are recently unemployed second tier superheroes in competition for a single wait staff job at a restaurant. Players serve tables by placing their time markers on them and ultimately the player who spends the most time on a table wins the table's tip. Players can also spend their time markers on the restaurant staff who allow them to use additional abilities to gain additional money or shift the odds in their favor on a table. Of course, being superheroes, each player also has a (nominally useful) power that allows them to bend certain strategies in their favor. The player who earns the most money in tips wins the job and the game. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B310: [BETA TEST] "Cards of Impact: Choose Your Destiny" by CBR Solutions; presented by Grant Peirce. Engage. Choose. Win by growing from strength to strength. Impact your relationships! This character-based card game will challenge your assumptions about your instincts and values. You will know yourself and your fellow players in new and intriguing ways. Successful players will seize their destiny! This game uses reality-based Challenge, Choice, and Character cards. Players choose from variations of the game based on age, skill level, time, competitive/collaborative modes, and what is most fun for them! Created by Susanne - a relationship coach, Grant - a psychometrician, and Johann - a financial analyst. The world is a crazy place, so we decided to create a reality-based card game to help us survive, connect, and thrive. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B311: [ALPHA TEST] "Chronicle of Kings" by Pendelhaven; presented by Andrew Valkauskas. Set during the Viking age in the Fate of the Norns universe. Players take on a dynasty of Viking rulers who wish to be immortalized in legend. Each turn spans several years, meaning that the bloodline will need to plan for marriage and children. Victory is achieved by being the bloodline with the most renown, and the game rewards players for memorable play. There are many ways to achieve renown, allowing players to pursue different paths to victory (ie. quests, military conquests, trade/raid, diplomatic intrigue, etc.). Rather than a mundane actions, players initiate scenes filled with drama, conflict and tension. All of the memories are created and situated upon a world map. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B312: [BETA TEST] "Cinder Spires Privateers" by Brooklyn Indie Games; presented by Tim Rodriguez. A pick-up-and-deliver deckbuilding game that puts you in command of a privateering ship. Manage your hand well to fulfill contracts and deliver commodities to bolster your reputation. This session is intended to focus on testing antagonistic play. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B313: [BETA TEST] "Clash of Corgis" presented by Deric Drazich. A fun and casual card game that takes a minute to setup, 2 minutes to learn, and 15 minutes to play! During the course of the game, players compete against eachother to be the first player to build a clan of 7 corgis of the same color. Players can make combos with their corgis to increase the size of their own clan(s) or use combos to deter other players from doing the same. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B314: [ALPHA TEST] "Cooperatization" by Interactivities Ink; presented by Mike Young. You work together to build a civilization making decisions like what policies to adopt, how to deal with crisis, how to grow your civilization, and how to deal with other civilizations using card drafting and area control. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B315: [BETA TEST] "Doomtrain" by Inverted Illuminati; presented by Peter Ciccolo. The legendary Doomtrain has exploded, as post-apocalyptic fortress-trains are known to do. Now its parts and crew are flying through the air as you and your rivals race to lay claim to the corpse of this behemoth and the treasures that lie within it. Doomtrain is a competitive deck / tableau building game for 2 players, in the style of Ascension, Star Realms, or Dominion. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B316: [BETA TEST] "Downforce Expansion" by Restoration Games, LLC; presented by Justin Jacobson. Downforce is a critically acclaimed, card-driven racing game with an auction and betting mechanic in addition to the racing. The base game features a double-sided board with two different tracks and asymmetrical player powers. The expansion offers two new tracks and six new powers for more variety. Shanghai Nights includes splits in the track and roundabouts that allow cars in the rear to block cars in the lead. Cliffs of Downforce introduces danger spaces, which allow cars to pass others, but you can't end your movement there. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B317: [BETA TEST] "Drive Fighter" presented by Phillip Steinberg. A two-player action card game. Players take on the role of a tactician and control a faction of creatures with the goal of defeating their opponent's General. The game features several different mechanics that make card Manipulation have a tangible and a visual effect. The game features a mechanic that allows players to climb back from the jaws of defeat through clever resource usage. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B318: [ALPHA TEST] "Empire Ship Builder" by Ironmark Games; presented by Mike Sette. A worker placement game with variable and randomized placements. Empire Ship Builder has players repairing and building space ships for the 4x game the other guys will be playing. Who cares about exploration, expansion, exploitation, and extermination? You can be making that that sweet cheddar while the other guys do all the work. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 2 seats left.
B319: [BETA TEST] "F.L.O.W." by Wee Big Games; presented by Tam Myaing. A cooperative time-traveling game where you are an agent of F.L.O.W., the Federal Land and Oceanic Workforce, entrusted with maintaining the Temporal Continuum and the fate of the human race. Open time portals to pivotal locations in time, travel to these locations, and shape incidents to architect a favorable ripple effect through the continuum. Can you and your team of F.L.O.W. agents complete the directives before time runs out? Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B320: [BETA TEST] "Fire Tower" by Runaway Parade Games; presented by Gwen Ruelle. A fire rages somewhere in the heart of the forest. From the height of a fire tower, you command the efforts to contain the inferno, coordinating air drops of water, fire engines, and the construction of fire breaks. Each turn the wind increases the strength of the burn, and the fire grows. Compete with rival fire departments who will stop at nothing to protect their towers. Fire Tower is a fast-paced, competitive hand management and grid movement game. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B321: [BETA TEST] "Gladius" presented by Victoria Cana. A betting game about guts, glory, and gambling! Over the course of five rounds, players bet on teams of gladiators and play influence cards to alter the outcome of each event. Your goal is to make sure you're on the winning end by any means necessary. Can you outwit your opponents to profit off of the gladiatorial games, or will you be left empty-handed? Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B322: [BETA TEST] "Great Aunt Gertie's Attic" presented by Doug Levandowski. You and your cousins might hate each other, but you love your Great Aunt Gertie. She has invited you all over to help her clean out her attic, but she's going to make you work together before you get anything! In this fast-paced negotiation game, players compete to collect the best sets in exactly three minutes - and the more you trade, the more you get! Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B323: [BETA TEST] "Koi" by Wandering Hearth Games; presented by Bill Lasek. A tranquil abstract game in which players assume the roles of koi in a Japanese pond. Players play a combination of movement and environmental cards in a hex grid in an attempt to eat 7 Dragonflies while playing cards to prevent your opponents from doing the same. Koi introduces a unique weather mechanic where during each day (round) the weather changes and affects the game's rules- creating hindrances or opportunities for the players. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B324: [ALPHA TEST] "Loot & Plunder" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Adam Fischer. Being the captain of a space pirate fleet is great, as long as you and the other captain in your sector can scavenge enough loot to keep the Pirate King happy. Work together to send off enough full ships while looting and plundering your opponent, because if the cargo you personally provide isn't the most valuable, off with your head! Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B325: [BETA TEST] "Midwinter Fair" by Legendsmiths; presented by Ryan O'Grady. A Euro-style worker-placement game in which you play a crafter and shop owner, working to become the next Master Crafter. Send adventurers on quests to acquire special resources, fulfill special orders for nobles, improve your workshop, and sell your wares at the eponymous Midwinter Fair. Similar in style to Lords of Waterdeep and Agricola, with some story game flair. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B326: [BETA TEST] "Mining Colony" presented by Anthony Fiumano. A Worker placement type game where each turn players are taking an action to help contribute to the Colony as a whole. At the end of 6 rounds the person who has contributed the most (gotten the most Victory Points) will have won. Players gain VP by Reproducing, Constructing Buildings, Crafting Items, Slaying Monsters, Gathering Animals, or creating Farms for the Colony. It's your adventure to do as you see fit. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B327: [BETA TEST] "No Holds Bard" by Cloven Pine Games; presented by Alexi Sargeant. A Shakespearean fighting game. Hamstring as Hamlet, beatdown as Beatrice, or pursue as the Bear! Over twenty different Shakespearean characters brawl for victory in a last-character-standing melee. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B328: [BETA TEST] "NUT SO FAST" by Smirk & Dagger Games; presented by Curt Covert. It's the lightning-fast, party game where players sit on the edge of their seat, waiting to grab wooden nuts out from the other player's noses! Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B329: [BETA TEST] "Panda Craves Danger" by Devious Devices, LLC; presented by Anthony Rando. You and your fellow pandas have grown tired of bamboo and are craving something more exciting. The trouble is, you have a hard time telling what's food and what's not. In this dice-throwing push-your-luck game, throw caution to the wind and eat whatever you can to gain the most Prestige. But be careful: the world is full of dangerous things, and you may end up biting off more than you can chew! Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B330: [BETA TEST] "Party Fowl" by Hebanon Games; presented by Spencer Harris. An area-control, modular-board card game designed for a party atmosphere. In the game, players assume the role of students at Duck U. It's the week before finals, and these ducks need to party! But partying is a delicate art, where the leader of the flock can quickly turn into a real lame duck. If you can navigate the social rapids, it only takes one great night to become big duck on campus. In Party Fowl, you move your duck around the house and start conversations that make you the life of the party. Just watch out for those basic hens and duck bois looking to sabotage your fun! Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B331: [BETA TEST] "Raccoon Ragu" presented by Tim Armstrong. Dip your paws into Raccoon cookery in this light winston drafting strategy game. Rummage through trash cans to assemble the right ingredients - the moldier the better. Then cook your dishes to take the top spot on the menu. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B332: [ALPHA TEST] "Rise of Shadow Moon" by Cap & Beard; presented by Nicholas Favia. Once every 103 years, a dark moon rises into the night sky, the Shadow Moon. It brings the darkness out of the corners of your room and The Shadow Lady's minions begin to seep in. Take on the role of children's toys and fight off hordes of shadows, keep them off the bed to keep the child safe! Can you protect the child from The Shadow Lady? Or will their spirit be dragged off to The Shadowlands only to be consumed? Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B333: [BETA TEST] "Salt" by Unpossible Game Labs; presented by Orion McClelland. A medium weight 4x game set in an alternate reality Wild West world. In Salt, you will be exploring the land, mining for resources, gathering, collecting, and skirmishing with other players. You play one of five different gangs pushing in on a newly discovered land to be the gang that has acquired the most salt. Salt uses few resources and a card driven mechanic making it easier for new players to enjoy this normally complex genre. Several paths to victory and asymmetric abilities and upgrades provide longevity and replay. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B334: [BETA TEST] "Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Jeffrey Van Ness. In Soaring Rhino's follow-up expansion to Shifting Realms, players delve into three new realms that can be added to the base game. Build towers that feed the demons and take control of fierce gargoyles. See what is new in Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B335: [BETA TEST] "Siege" by Aggressively Playable Games; presented by Noah Anderson. Work with a friend to stop the march of the cards. Beware: Your resources weaken over time, and the deck is relentlessly alive. Siege is a colorful, cooperative game for two players who love a tense, difficult challenge. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B336: [BETA TEST] "Space Pirate Booty" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Craig Van Ness. It's time to gather your crew for a space pirate journey. In this tricky trick taking game, players bid for cards to complete their crew. Pirate meld cards, special score cards, and trick score cards make every round a different experience. Who will cleverly walk away with the most booty in this pirate card game from Soaring Rhino? Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B337: [BETA TEST] "Space Runners" presented by Robin Liu. A press your luck adventure card game. Each player selects a hero and tries to run through each location, encountering creatures and traps on the way, while he/she tries to lockdown the location for extra points. Space Runners can be played cooperatively or against each other in teams or free for all. A quick and fun game that is simple to pick up and play with family and friends. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B338: [BETA TEST] "Speculate" by Snowman Games; presented by Mike Schuller. Can you manage your resources in different stock market sectors to collect more fame and fortune than your opponents? This new trick taking game lets you manage your assets as different assets will be valued differently as the game progresses. Play testers will be asked to provide feedback on several rule variants as well as comment on the game. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B339: [BETA TEST] "Spirit Realms: Tengoku-SR" by The Raven & The Widow, LLC; presented by Ted Gerard. An army fort builder card game that revolves around a retelling of the gods as animal warrior spirits called Spirit Masters. Each warrior is Ruler of 1 of the 9 realms in the world of Tengoku, SR Prime being the first realm. Each realm is represented by a Spirit Master who comes with his own deck of power, each deck with it's own strengths and weakness. Players must protect their throne by defending their forts from being destroyed while attempting to capture their opponent's Throne. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B340: [BETA TEST] "Taking Stock" by Spare the Rod Games; presented by Rod Currie. Taking Stock is a trick-taking stock market manipulation game. In this game, you will play cards to both manipulate stock prices and try to win tricks which will give you shares of those stocks. More shares in stocks with higher prices earn you more money. The most money wins. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B341: [BETA TEST] "The Lion & The Eagle" by Arbor Games; presented by Jerry Wang. A World War II hybrid Euro/wargaming experience in which players relive some of the great strategic dilemmas that defined the contest between Albion's Lion and the Eagle of the Third Reich. Taking over in High Command, players will use their decks and the game board to plan their strategies, appoint Commanders and enact Policies, fight battles at sea and in the skies, and ultimately, achieve victory for their side. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B342: [BETA TEST] "Wind Sabers" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. Turn-based, turn-based (not a typo) card combat with a spin. Twist. Kick. Punch. Players control a pair of Disciples, who tag team together to beat their opponent's duo using all manner of card-rotating maneuvers. Combat is direction-based, and maneuvers turn your characters' cards, so you must strategically chain your attacks together. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B343: [BETA TEST] "You Are Not Alone" by 9 Kingdoms Publications; presented by Ivan Turner. You don't know how long you and the others have been trapped inside of the house. You all want to be free. But the only way to leave is when someone new enters. Someone new has just entered. You Are Not Alone is a card game where you desperately try to map an escape route through a deck of location cards. Armed with your own deck of "stock" cards, you'll populate locations on your "track" and try to implement a strategy that sees you through the exit before any of your opponents. Friday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B365: [BETA TEST] "Animus" by Zero Budget Geek; presented by Eriberto Rodriguez. A small, two-player card game inspired by fighting video games and turn-based monster combat RPGs. The game has players drafting a team of 9 unique characters from a spanning multiverse to compete while leading their team with one of 6 Entity cards. Every game will have a completely new roster! Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B366: [BETA TEST] "Ark Worlds" by Unpossible Game Labs; presented by Orion McClelland. A 2-player skirmish inspired by MOBAs and hero based team shooters. Ark Worlds takes an approach that simplifies the laning in MOBAs and emphasizes the team fight in order to gain strategic advantage. In Ark Worlds, you will gather a team of 6 heroes, Each player will deploy 4 heroes per engagement and activate abilities back and force until all actions have been exhausted. The team with the highest total dominance when the dust clears will control the objective. This game appeals to people who like the gameplay of Magic or Net Runner but do notwant to sift the hundreds of cards. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B367: [BETA TEST] "Bidrock" by Formal Ferret Games; presented by Gil Hova. Scrape the skies! You are a real estate developer in competition with your opponents to build the tallest skyscraper in the city. Bidrock is a strategy board game centered around a tricky auction. Bid for turn order, which will get you first crack at the resources you need to fulfill your architects' blueprints. But seeing as how a person can only find love and happiness through tremendous financial wealth (at least, that's what everyone else says), make sure you don't go too deep into debt, and you're not the poorest player by the end of the game! Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B369: [BETA TEST] "Clash of Corgis" presented by Deric Drazich. A fun and casual card game that takes a minute to setup, 2 minutes to learn, and 15 minutes to play! During the course of the game, players compete against eachother to be the first player to build a clan of 7 corgis of the same color. Players can make combos with their corgis to increase the size of their own clan(s) or use combos to deter other players from doing the same. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B370: [BETA TEST] "Clear the Decks!" by Crispy Games Company; presented by Christopher Pinyan. A cooperative card game for 1-4 players depicting naval warfare during the age of sail. Players each command 3 cannon and use a variety of ammunition, tactics and officers to destroy the enemy ship structures, guns and crew. Can you and your shipmates work together to sink the enemy before all of your cannon are destroyed? Its time to prepare for action and Clear the Decks! Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B371: [BETA TEST] "Cube of Death" by Studio187; presented by Peter Bryant. a trivia card game that incorporates role playing mechanics. Adventures can be run with simplistic characters using trivia questions to resolve conflicts, dice to deliver damage, and magic items to enhance the dynamic. Last person with hits wins. There is also a trick taking version for simplistic fast play. This game is 90% finished and is going to Kickstarter in mid-February. The designer is looking for one final round of play testing to try out the final revisions from the previous play tests. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B372: [BETA TEST] "Cupcake Clash" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Adam Fischer. A food fight breaks out and suddenly cupcakes are flying everywhere! Draft the most advantageous hand of cupcake cards, then lay them out so that each one is directed toward one of the other players, except one that you hold in reserve. Fling cupcakes to score points, eat them to get your energy back up, deflect them to another player, or just shield yourself from the mess. Guessing what other players are likely to do can help you arrange your own cards, but once airborne, who knows where a cupcake may land? Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B373: [BETA TEST] "Doomtrain" by Inverted Illuminati; presented by Peter Ciccolo. The legendary Doomtrain has exploded, as post-apocalyptic fortress-trains are known to do. Now its parts and crew are flying through the air as you and your rivals race to lay claim to the corpse of this behemoth and the treasures that lie within it. Doomtrain is a competitive deck / tableau building game for 2 players, in the style of Ascension, Star Realms, or Dominion. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B374: [BETA TEST] "Dragon's In Love" by Gontza Games; presented by Ann Stolinsky. The dragon is awake again! The villagers are frightened, and prepare to defeat him. But this time, he's not looking for places to burn, or humans to eat; he's searching for his mate. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B375: [BETA TEST] "DRIVE-IN!" by Tabletop Tiki; presented by Daniel Kitchen. In this turn-based game, collect Ticket and Action Cards and battle for the best spots to park your cars on a game board reminiscent of a retro-style 1950's Drive-In Movie Theater. Download the free companion app (NOT required) to any smart phone or tablet device and magically transform the game board into a miniature Drive-In Theater complete with 15 classic 1950's sci-fi Movie Trailers. Collect Movie Cards to park during your favorite B Movies Trailers to earn bonus points. During intermissions you'll have a change to visit our delicious Snack Bar and earn extra points in a confection themed dice battle mini game. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Serious, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B376: [BETA TEST] "Florafiora" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. An artistic co-operative exploration game where players manage little beings called Seedizens, and send them to far-off planets to colonize and connect together while being assaulted by a relentless winter. Different races of Seedizens interact differently with the various planets, and players must work together to discover their universe and return home safely. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B377: [BETA TEST] "Hero: Tales of the Tomes" presented by Jimmy Ellerth. A multiplayer card game in which each of the players takes the role of a legendary hero and battles it out until only one is left standing. All players play off of one shared deck together, so no prior deck building or collecting is required. The gameplay is fast and exciting. With all the potential for twists and comebacks, you'll never truly feel out of the game. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B378: [BETA TEST] "Hidden Panda" by Jellybean Games; presented by Peter Hayward. One of you is a panda, trying to collect their panda babies. One of you is an innocent grandma...who looks strangely like a panda. The rest of you are either poachers or preservationists - it's up to you! Hidden Panda is a new social deduction game, with an emphasis on cute. And pandas. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 7 seats left.
[FILLED] B379: [BETA TEST] "Imagine Majesty" by Imagine Majesty Productions, LLC; presented by Davin Loegering. A game with multiple play scenarios: 4X campaign, cooperative wave defense, and solo/team skirmish with sci-fi/fantasy and historical/epic fantasy components. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B380: [BETA TEST] "MEGAJAIL" presented by Rocco Privetera. A tense sci-fi co-op card game with hidden goals and possibly a hidden traitor. Players take the form of Wardens running parts of a campy, sci-fi jail, managing the prisoners which are aliens, robots and worse. Players use anti-set collection to house Cons, drafting to see who gets what, and try to hold off a megariot until reinforcements arrive. Players may also have their own special goals or be trying to tank the prison. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B381: [BETA TEST] "Mill City" presented by Eric Alvarado. Players are responsible for ordering flour from flour mills and shipping it via boxcars to distribution centers. In order to process flour, the flour mills convert the water power of the St. Anthonys Falls into the mechanical power needed to mill grain into flour. Once production is completed, the flour is loaded into boxcars and shipped to distribution centers. The player who can successfully balance production and shipping based on the available water power and shipping capacity, and invest in the rising flour mills will win the game. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B382: [BETA TEST] "Orphanage of Fear" by Slightly Offensive Games; presented by Thomas Hornemann. Abandoned and unwanted with the dust bowl blotting out the sun and all hope, children have begun to disappear. Boogeymen have descended on the Shining Hope Orphanage, and are feeding on the children there. Using what few possessions they have, the remaining children must attempt to ferret out who among them have been replaced by dark fey before it is too late. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 18 seats left.
B383: [BETA TEST] "Palette Gamut" by HitMouse Productions; presented by Joshua Ferraiuolo. A card game about collecting pigments and mixing paint. Collected pigments are combined with binders and solvents to form the colors according to their recipe. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B384: [BETA TEST] "Party Fowl" by Hebanon Games; presented by Caleb Stokes. An area-control, modular-board card game designed for a party atmosphere. In the game, players assume the role of students at Duck U. It's the week before finals, and these ducks need to party! But partying is a delicate art, where the leader of the flock can quickly turn into a real lame duck. If you can navigate the social rapids, it only takes one great night to become big duck on campus. In Party Fowl, you move your duck around the house and start conversations that make you the life of the party. Just watch out for those basic hens and duck bois looking to sabotage your fun! Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B385: [BETA TEST] "QuestFour" presented by Robert Brown. Place one of your pieces, then turn any tile. It seems simple to win, just get four of your pieces in a row. But is it that simple? Players must think in multiple dimensions while adapting to an ever changing playing field. Just when you think you've won, your opponent can take it away with the twist of a board. QuestFour is a 4D spatial strategy game where players use their pieces in multiple dimensions while adapting to a dynamic playing field. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 6 seats left.
B386: [BETA TEST] "Rampaging Jotunn: Winter War 4-Player Expansion" by Lost Cog Games; presented by Matthias Bonnici. Return to the unnamed island in this exciting 4 player expansion to Rampaging Jotunn! This massive expansion includes complete with new land types, new land boards that further expand the borders of the unnamed island. There are 2 new armies, new rules for 2, 3 and 4 players, armor, weapons, new cards, new powers, and new components that expand the Rampaging Jotunn Saga... and did we mention the 2nd Jotunn? Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B387: [BETA TEST] "Salvage" presented by Nolan James. A space-themed strategy game where you collect sets of stray 'Ship Parts' from the board. Armed with Movement, Rotation, Attack, and Defense cards, players maneuver between debris to outwit and disarm their opponents. The first player to put their ship back together and escape wins! We're testing a smaller board for 2-3 players. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Serious, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B388: [BETA TEST] "Slack Jack" by Split Brain Games; presented by Joel Colombo. A series of treasures have been discovered on Pirate Island. The captain needs to put together search parties to find and claim the loot... but they need to be careful, some members of the crew are only in it for themselves and would happily lie and convince the captain to take them along... only to steal the loot from the whole party and leave the others with nothing. In Slack Jack players receive a hidden pirate card that gives them some value on their shipmates. Hidden in the midst of the ships crew are Slack Jack and Slack Jane... the liars that will say anything the captain wants to hear to weasel their way onto the right team. Who's lying? Who has a hidden agenda? Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 9 seats left.
B389: [BETA TEST] "Team Evl" by Infinite Lives, LLC; presented by Ethan Weber. A UN-cooperative game of wit, deception, and deduction. Join team evl to cure boredom, and release evil back into the world. CAUTION: As you play, evil whispers destroy your once noble thoughts. You will seek the ruin of your friends and to rule the world through the absolute power of evil. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B390: [BETA TEST] "The Dungeon Dome Card Game" presented by James D'Amato, Kat Kuhl. Based on the ONE SHOT Network's Dungeon Dome actual play series, this game pits players against one another in fast-paced strategy-driven battles. In seconds players create their own team of fighters to bring into the arena to fight for glory. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B391: [BETA TEST] "The Pirate's Lost Booty" by Red Knight Card Games; presented by Mathew Rutan. Have you ever wanted to be a rich and famous pirate? Well Shiver me timbers, this is your chance. A hurricane has forced a pirate ship to run aground on a deserted island. Now it's treasure and valuable equipment are scattered across the island. So Heave Ho and claim all you can...but beware, because they set traps to stop all you Landlubbers from taking The Pirate's Lost Booty. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B392: [BETA TEST] "The Stars May Swallow Us" by Tekkactus Games; presented by Jeff Gum. A modular hidden-role card game. Trapped on a broken down spacecraft with failing life support, players need to race against the clock to repair their engine before their air supply runs out, while also defending against attacks from the saboteur who caused this mess to begin with. If you've ever thought Werewolf could use some card counting deduction, or if Love Letter needed more accusatory pointing, this might be the testing session for you! Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B393: [BETA TEST] "Up and Over" presented by Beau LaManna. A two-player strategy boardgame where both sides advance their forces across No-Man's Land on a WW1 themed battlefield, using artillery and a variety of units to force their way behind enemy lines and claim victory. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Serious, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B394: [BETA TEST] "Wayward Crowns" by Thursday Games; presented by Beth Erikson. A land of four kingdoms. A shattered empire. A balance to be restored. Chaos has spread and the courts are scattered. In Wayward Crowns, you must hunt down your kingdom's missing nobles, repair your ancient artifact and restore balance before the other players and before chaos takes over completely. In this board game, players will choose a kingdom (Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs or Spades), each with different skills. Players will then face encounters, earn magical items and explore the kingdoms to find and rescue their nobles. Players must be careful in their journey though, or the chaos could corrupt them. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B395: [BETA TEST] "WBW: World Beats Wrestling" by Single Helix Studios; presented by Noah Cohen. A rhythm based card game? Don't overthink, bid to the beat! WBW: World Beats Wrestling puts a new spin on blind bidding games by adding rhythm. Players start with cards numbered 1-8 in their hands, then put on a song and take turns playing cards face down onto any of four piles while keeping up with the beat. Because each player bids face down, you can see where people are putting their cards, but not where they're putting their value. Keeping up with the beat dishes up a delightful dollop of disorder, disrupts your plans and doles out laughs. Win a pile by having the highest sum once everyone’s cards are down to improve your reputation and win fans. Race to build your fan base so the league will let you win bigger matches and become the face of the WBW. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B396: [BETA TEST] "Wizarding Trials" by Paw-Warrior Games; presented by Josh Paugh, Ben Krieger. Get ready for the ultimate wizard showdown as players face off in a series of magical trials to put your skills to the test. Each player will be fighting for superiority in the various magical categories by using their action cards to raise their skills, hinder their opponents, or throw a little chaos into the mix. This light-strategy game includes elements of a take-that style game and will keep you guessing about your opponents' strategies as each trial gets closer to completion. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B397: [BETA TEST] "You've Been Poisoned 2" by Gameworthy Labs; presented by Tim Blank. A 10-minute, escape-style game that's played with an elaborate set-up on a tabletop. You've been poisoned in the Laboratory of the evil Dr. Mortimer Thornblood. Lucky for you, he's left clues around that will help you figure out where the antidote is. Find it within 10 minutes and get out with your life! But be careful - take too long and the poison will take hold, or pick the wrong one and you'll drink a catalyst that will kill you instantly! Looking for players who are fans of short puzzles and familiar with the concept of escape-style games. The game requires light physical activity (lifting up things, opening up boxes, etc.), quick puzzle solving skills, and the ability to play under pressure; is played standing up and typically requires some moving around, too. Friday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B416: [BETA TEST] Event Canceled. Friday, 12:00AM - 2:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B419: [BETA TEST] "...And John Kills Us All" by Legendsmiths; presented by Ryan O'Grady. A semi-cooperative trick-taking card game in which the players are psychic time travelers. They must prevent John from pushing the button and killing everyone, while still trying to achieve their secret objective. But watch out for the Nihilist - they win if everyone dies. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 2 seats left.
B420: [BETA TEST] "Adventures of the Cimmerian Forest" by Mayham Games; presented by Isaac Gibbs. One of three finalists for most dynamic game at the 2017 Boston FIG, this is a co-operative card game where players play as a group of survivalist trappers tasked to build elaborate traps and weapons using 3 basic resources found in the forest. It is a great introduction to the world of hobby board games by putting a unique spin on the use of simple mechanics such as set collection, resource management, and trading. Adventures of the Cimmerian Forest makes co-op play incredibly accessible for all ages with its limited use of text and use of simplistic and abstract card design. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B421: [BETA TEST] "Born to Serve" by Shoot Again Games; presented by Diane Sauer, Nick Sauer. Players are recently unemployed second tier superheroes in competition for a single wait staff job at a restaurant. Players serve tables by placing their time markers on them and ultimately the player who spends the most time on a table wins the table's tip. Players can also spend their time markers on the restaurant staff who allow them to use additional abilities to gain additional money or shift the odds in their favor on a table. Of course, being superheroes, each player also has a (nominally useful) power that allows them to bend certain strategies in their favor. The player who earns the most money in tips wins the job and the game. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B422: [BETA TEST] "Call to Ares" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Jeffrey Van Ness. The chaotic greek god of war, Ares, has called warriors from different times and cultures to his arena to determine who are the best fighters. In this dice-building game take control of two heroes and battle the enemy heroes in the arena to earn rewards from Ares. As you fight, search for artifacts, pay homage to Ares at his altars, and gain crowns of courage. Which heroes will prove the fiercest? Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B423: [BETA TEST] "Downforce Expansion" by Restoration Games, LLC; presented by Justin Jacobson. Downforce is a critically acclaimed, card-driven racing game with an auction and betting mechanic in addition to the racing. The base game features a double-sided board with two different tracks and asymmetrical player powers. The expansion offers two new tracks and six new powers for more variety. Shanghai Nights includes splits in the track and roundabouts that allow cars in the rear to block cars in the lead. Cliffs of Downforce introduces danger spaces, which allow cars to pass others, but you can't end your movement there. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B424: [BETA TEST] "Earthforge" by KinSoul Studio; presented by Jordan Mathews. A fast-paced, competitive, arena-brawler for 2 to 4 players. Taking control of powerful Valkyries from around the world, players will use their unique powers to battle their way through other champions and fearsome beasts in order to take control of the legendary Earthforge. Using its vast power, a Valkyrie may reshape the world in their image. Will you seize victory from your foes, or will you cower in their shadow? Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B425: [BETA TEST] "Gerrymandering" by Slightly Offensive Games; presented by Thomas Hornemann. All things being equal the next election could go either way. It's up to you to make sure it swings in your party's favor. Campaign to encourage your voters and discourage your opponent's, change voter trends, and manipulate political boundaries to make sure your party gets into office. Players rearrange, flip, and replace tiles while manipulating the borders that make up the districts in game about American politics. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Serious, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B426: [BETA TEST] "Gizmos" presented by Randall Buck. Control a powerful association of sentient machines as it explores a new world, competes for raw materials, and evolves. Players will use a simple tile laying mechanism to determine the powers and abilities of each piece, or gizmo, that they bring into play. Every tile also contributes to the growing terrain as well as to a novel resource generation system, giving players control over every aspect of the game board as it develops. Victory is achieved by gathering and cleverly managing resources. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B427: [BETA TEST] "Halcyon City Adventures" by Magpie Games; presented by Brendan Conway. Halcyon City is under attack, and it's down to you and your team to defend it! Come playtest this co-operative board game, set in the same worlds as the Masks: A New Generation RPG, featuring individual characters with unique decks and some deck-building elements. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B428: [BETA TEST] "Human Era" by Lay Waste Games; presented by Jake Given. A social deduction game where you and your crew are aboard the last time machine to save space and time from the chaos unleashed by the haphazard time traveling of humans. However, among your crew are machines and cyborgs disguised as humans with their own goals in mind. Achieve your goal of repairing or destroying the space-time continuum before fuel runs out! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 8 seats left.
B429: [BETA TEST] "Lazer Ryderz: Expansions" by Cardboard Fortress Games; presented by Anthony Amato, Nicole Kline. It's season 2 of the radical 80s trackless racing game LAZER RYDERZ! After passing through the dimensional portals, our heroes find themselves in The Danger Zone. Test out strange new phenomena, exciting new characters, and the effects of terrain in our upcoming expansion. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B430: [BETA TEST] "Magnificent Movie Moguls" by Vanishing City Games; presented by John Dermody. You are a movie producer in the "Golden Age of Cinema". You are competing with other studios in the acquisition of resources (Leading Ladies, Directors, etc.), soliciting money, paying off critics for good reviews among other things to produce Westerns, Comedies, Musicals and Mystery/Thrillers. By doing so you hope to gain enough prestige and money to create your "Epic" movie before any other studio. Beware, other players are trying to do so as well. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 5 seats left.
B431: [BETA TEST] "Meeple Party" by 9th Level Games; presented by Heather O'Neill. Tonight you are throwing a party with your roommates! Will it go down in history as the BEST PARTY EVER?! In this cooperative strategy board game you take advantage of photo opportunities to keep the party cranking while trying to avoid disasters that could end the party! Once there are 3 disasters it's 3 strikes you're out! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B432: [BETA TEST] "Miner Rings" presented by Charlie Hoopes. A pick-up-and-deliver game where players can move the destinations. You are captain of a freighter making deliveries between space stations orbiting a ringed planet. Earn the best reputation by hauling the most cargo and colonists between space stations. Sometimes it is best to fly your rocket to a space station, others it will be more efficient to move the space station to your rocket. While using fuel will get you there quicker, your supply is limited, so choose wisely when to burn and when to conserve. In this game, everyone shares the same dice rolls, so you can't blame how you roll. Miner Rings is an evolution of Planet Chasers, a finalist in the 2016 Cardboard Edison prototype of the year award. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 2 seats left.
B433: [BETA TEST] "Myth and Mettle" presented by ErikPeter Walker. A cooperative, monster-slaying card game set in Ancient Greece. The heroes attempt to slay three legendary monsters, like Chimera or Medusa. Tactically play cards to maneuver and attack, while mitigating the attacks of the monsters. Each hero and monster has their own unique abilities, encouraging players to explore new strategies from battle to battle. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B434: [BETA TEST] "NextNote" presented by Janna Bramhill. A fun way to learn music notes and a fun game to play even if you already know all your notes. Improve your speed at recognizing notes, octaves, note names, length, and building familiarity with chords and triads. Ideal for families with kids learning to read music and to complement musical instruction. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. [NDA REQUIRED] This is a HI-TEST session. There are 3 seats left.
B435: [BETA TEST] "Panda Craves Danger" by Devious Devices, LLC; presented by Anthony Rando. You and your fellow pandas have grown tired of bamboo and are craving something more exciting. The trouble is, you have a hard time telling what's food and what's not. In this dice-throwing push-your-luck game, throw caution to the wind and eat whatever you can to gain the most Prestige. But be careful: the world is full of dangerous things, and you may end up biting off more than you can chew! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B436: [BETA TEST] "Quantum Quest" by Black Furnace Games; presented by Michael DeAngelo. A dungeon crawler card game that pits you against your friends in a game that never plays the same way twice. Players put together teams of adventurers and travel through the dungeon, encountering chambers that will hurt you unless you capture them. You can only capture chambers if you have enough mana, and an adventurer that matches the room’s class type. Once you own the chambers, you decide how they harm your opponents when they land there. Claim victory if you are the only survivor! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B437: [BETA TEST] "Reigning Cats and Dogs" presented by Wayne Bowmanchester. This light strategy game starts with a group of animals escaping from the pound, each one with the belief that they should be the to rule the neighborhood. Race your competitors to mark your territory, steal areas from your enemies, and explore your community. The fur will fly until the winning pet is crowned! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B438: [ALPHA TEST] "Rise of Shadow Moon" by Cap & Beard; presented by Nicholas Favia. Once every 103 years, a dark moon rises into the night sky, the Shadow Moon. It brings the darkness out of the corners of your room and The Shadow Lady's minions begin to seep in. Take on the role of children's toys and fight off hordes of shadows, keep them off the bed to keep the child safe! Can you protect the child from The Shadow Lady? Or will their spirit be dragged off to The Shadowlands only to be consumed? Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B439: [BETA TEST] Event Canceled. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B440: [BETA TEST] "Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Craig Van Ness. In Soaring Rhino's follow-up expansion to Shifting Realms, players delve into three new realms that can be added to the base game. Build towers that feed the demons and take control of fierce gargoyles. See what is new in Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B441: [BETA TEST] "Smirk & Dagger Smash Lab" by Smirk & Dagger Games; presented by Curt Covert. Four good games that need to be great. Break em and build them to new heights. Rescue dogs at a shelter and find them the perfect home / Bluff the biggest Fish Tale ever / Robbery gone very, very bad. And more. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B442: [BETA TEST] "Speculate" by Snowman Games; presented by Mike Schuller. Can you manage your resources in different stock market sectors to collect more fame and fortune than your opponents? This new trick taking game lets you manage your assets as different assets will be valued differently as the game progresses. Play testers will be asked to provide feedback on several rule variants as well as comment on the game. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B443: [BETA TEST] "Spell Casters" presented by Travis Magrum. In this cooperative game, players spell the big words to gain the elements to cast magical spells. Can our wizards stop the monsters from destroying the Grand Library? Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B444: [BETA TEST] "Steam Masters" by Branum Games; presented by Tiffany Branum. This is a steampunk inspired game about investing during the Age of Steam. Play as aristocrats investing in steam inventors who create a variety of intriguing items. Through three rounds, you will commission your chosen inventors, and for each round the most successful inventors will be tallied up. Whoever backs the most successful overall inventor wins the game! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B445: [BETA TEST] "Symposium" presented by Dan Cassar. A game about competing scientific theories. Is phlogiston theory going to explain combustion? Or is Oxygen Theory going to sway public opinion? Will studies prove that disease is caused by exposure to miasma (bad air)? Or will the scientific community embrace Germ Theory? This medium-weight, traditional-feel card game casts players as patrons of the sciences in the early days of the Age of Reason. The patrons seek to back the right theory at the right time through two scoring rounds - first a local Colloquium, then at game end, the Great Symposium. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B446: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B447: [BETA TEST] "Truckaroo" presented by Megan Knouff. Run your own food truck! Prices for ingredients change daily, so try to get the best deals and get the most customers. Hang on to repeat customers for extra bonuses! Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B448: [BETA TEST] "You Are Not Alone" by 9 Kingdoms Publications; presented by Ivan Turner. You don't know how long you and the others have been trapped inside of the house. You all want to be free. But the only way to leave is when someone new enters. Someone new has just entered. You Are Not Alone is a card game where you desperately try to map an escape route through a deck of location cards. Armed with your own deck of "stock" cards, you'll populate locations on your "track" and try to implement a strategy that sees you through the exit before any of your opponents. Saturday, 9:00AM - 11:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B467: [BETA TEST] "#refugee card game" by Forstle LLC; presented by Thomas Mon. A turn-based strategy card game in which players assume the roles of countries attempting to address an acute global influx of refugees. Players take turns discovering certain facts and pieces of information about each refugee. Leveraging this knowledge, players then make choices on how best to manage the effects that these refugees will have on the security of their borders and countries. #refugee card game affords players flexibility the form of alternate win-conditions as well as ad-hoc collaboration in games with more than 2 players. Will you try to allow as many refugees as possible into your country or will you try to eliminate your opponents by redirecting "undesirable" refugees away from your borders? Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B468: [ALPHA TEST] "A Mining Robot Reprogrammed to be a Doctor Robot" presented by Tim Hutchings. A "role taking" game in which shirking astronauts try to convince a poorly programmed doctor robot that they are sick and deserve to laze in bed all day. There's not really card play involved, though that's what it feels very similar to, it floats somewhere between RPG, party game, and tabletop something or another. This is a weird, funny game that needs your help to fix it. Very much an Alpha Test. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B469: [BETA TEST] "Ace Tabula" by SE2OND; presented by Adam Ciffone. A 2-4 player card game. Players primarly rely on concentration, attention, and memory in order to win. Ace Tabula is for all ages but is geared to an older, more serious audience. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. [NDA REQUIRED] There are 2 seats left.
B470: [BETA TEST] "Agency" by Outboard; presented by John Atwood. A tense and breathless strategy card game that allows two to five players to explore a the ruthless underworld of espionage. There is a deck of agents and a deck of assets from which players draw and a field is created. You must think on your toes to make the best decisions with just two cards at the beginning of your turn. Will you confront an opponent, make contact with the field, or move assets to your safehouse? You advance by dominating the city. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B471: [BETA TEST] "Art 101" by WizKids; presented by Zev Shlasinger. Hi, Class! Welcome to your first day of Art 101. Throughout this course you will be using color theory to make a mosaic. While this is a group project, you will be graded individually. Your grade for this course will be the combination of your participation and project scores. Get to work and make your mosaic. In Art 101, players will roll dice that will determine which mosaic tiles they get and which color theory is available to them. Mix, substitute, and gain colors as well as use the color wheel for complementary, adjacent, and triatic color shifts. Use the colors you gain to add to the mosaic. Building quickly is important but so is the size of areas you are playing. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B472: [BETA TEST] "Can We Talk?" by Gontza Games; presented by Ann Stolinsky. Joan Rivers made this saying famous. We're making it funny. Gontza Games' newest design is a combination of chatter, wits, and endurance. Can you talk about a subject for 30 seconds without stammering or pausing? Come play Can We Talk? to find out. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B473: [ALPHA TEST] "Chronicle of Kings" by Pendelhaven; presented by Andrew Valkauskas. Set during the Viking age in the Fate of the Norns universe. Players take on a dynasty of Viking rulers who wish to be immortalized in legend. Each turn spans several years, meaning that the bloodline will need to plan for marriage and children. Victory is achieved by being the bloodline with the most renown, and the game rewards players for memorable play. There are many ways to achieve renown, allowing players to pursue different paths to victory (ie. quests, military conquests, trade/raid, diplomatic intrigue, etc.). Rather than a mundane actions, players initiate scenes filled with drama, conflict and tension. All of the memories are created and situated upon a world map. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B474: [BETA TEST] "Communique" by Cardboard Edison; presented by Chris Zinsli, Suzanne Zinsli. Your team of Cold War spies has to interpret a series of coded messages--or communiques--to hit three checkpoints all while avoiding a growing number of enemy agents. If you enjoy team clue-giving games like Codenames, Mysterium and Spyfall, this is the game for you! Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B475: [BETA TEST] "DRIVE-IN!" by Tabletop Tiki; presented by Daniel Kitchen. In this turn-based game, collect Ticket and Action Cards and battle for the best spots to park your cars on a game board reminiscent of a retro-style 1950's Drive-In Movie Theater. Download the free companion app (NOT required) to any smart phone or tablet device and magically transform the game board into a miniature Drive-In Theater complete with 15 classic 1950's sci-fi Movie Trailers. Collect Movie Cards to park during your favorite B Movies Trailers to earn bonus points. During intermissions you'll have a change to visit our delicious Snack Bar and earn extra points in a confection themed dice battle mini game. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Serious, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B476: [BETA TEST] "Fired (Expansions)" presented by Doug Levandowski, Matthias Bonnici. All the rumors are true and the inevitable has happened: the company you work for has been acquired by Super Mega Corp, and they've decided one division is all they need. Your incompetent boss has asked you to make sure your division survives. Players will be helping to test two expansions to the game - but no experience with the base game necessary. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B477: [BETA TEST] "I Hunger" by Labyrinth Games; presented by Nicholas Malinowski. Yet another board game of Zombie Survival. Though with this one there is a twist. You are the Zombie trying to survive. Come shamble through the streets trying to evolve and escape. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B478: [BETA TEST] "It Figures" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Kiva Fecteau. A game system that resembles Boggle, but for math, and with the flexibility to let you play the way you want to. Roll dice into a grid or a circle, add extra rules or challenges to each round, or play the set collection variant where you have to include or exclude specific elements. Only unique equations allow you to score. This game can make you math differently every time you play it! Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B479: [BETA TEST] "Magnolia Sun" by Learn Larp LLC; presented by Benjamin Morrow, Mike Young. In this cooperative storytelling adventure board game by Mike Young, you'll create a character (a student at Magnolia Sun primaschola in Solaris Province), and go from scene to scene on adventure after adventure. You'll work together with your fellow students to solve mysteries, overcome obstacles, and combat dangerous creatures. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B480: [BETA TEST] "Martian Badlands" by Space Lion Games; presented by Sara Perry. In the Martian Badlands, there are no laws and the corporations know it. You are the original colonists of Mars fighting tooth and nail to protect your land as encroaching corporations try to take it from you. Work together with your eccentric neighbors to build your dice pool and successfully fend off the corporate thieves. Martian Badlands is a cooperative, dice building and worker placement game. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B481: [BETA TEST] "Mill City" presented by Eric Alvarado. Players are responsible for ordering flour from flour mills and shipping it via boxcars to distribution centers. In order to process flour, the flour mills convert the water power of the St. Anthonys Falls into the mechanical power needed to mill grain into flour. Once production is completed, the flour is loaded into boxcars and shipped to distribution centers. The player who can successfully balance production and shipping based on the available water power and shipping capacity, and invest in the rising flour mills will win the game. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B482: [BETA TEST] "ORDS" by EverTech Products; presented by Felix Cruz. Galactic Strategy and Tactical Board/Card Game. Win the game by eliminating all opponents and becoming Emperor/Empress of the Milky Way Galaxy. Includes a short version of play to allow a winner within a couple of hours. Players move their token pieces around the board by spaceships, weapon cards, Star Systems (Star cards), and win Yeps (monies), etc. Players will transport, at a cost, spaceships into different Galactic Quadrants to challenge opponents to battle to control Galactic Quadrants, conquer Star Systems (Star cards), destroy opponents' spaceships, and win Quadrant prizes. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B483: [BETA TEST] "Party Fowl" by Hebanon Games; presented by Spencer Harris. An area-control, modular-board card game designed for a party atmosphere. In the game, players assume the role of students at Duck U. It's the week before finals, and these ducks need to party! But partying is a delicate art, where the leader of the flock can quickly turn into a real lame duck. If you can navigate the social rapids, it only takes one great night to become big duck on campus. In Party Fowl, you move your duck around the house and start conversations that make you the life of the party. Just watch out for those basic hens and duck bois looking to sabotage your fun! Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B484: [BETA TEST] "Quantum Quest" by Black Furnace Games; presented by Michael DeAngelo. A dungeon crawler card game that pits you against your friends in a game that never plays the same way twice. Players put together teams of adventurers and travel through the dungeon, encountering chambers that will hurt you unless you capture them. You can only capture chambers if you have enough mana, and an adventurer that matches the room’s class type. Once you own the chambers, you decide how they harm your opponents when they land there. Claim victory if you are the only survivor! Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B485: [BETA TEST] "Race 2 Place" presented by Zachary Huff. You are a horse whisperer, down on your luck and looking for a big score. In an effort to stay under the radar, you have quietly bet everything that you own that your chosen horse will place in the next race. Unfortunately, several other horse whisperers have chosen the same race with similar plans. Even worse, the race track has gotten wind of a rise in horse whispering and will investigate anyone who's horse crosses the finish line first. Manage your hand with grace, keep an eye on the pace, and maybe your horse will win the Race 2 Place! Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B486: [BETA TEST] "Reigning Cats and Dogs" presented by Wayne Bowmanchester. This light strategy game starts with a group of animals escaping from the pound, each one with the belief that they should be the to rule the neighborhood. Race your competitors to mark your territory, steal areas from your enemies, and explore your community. The fur will fly until the winning pet is crowned! Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B487: [BETA TEST] "Savage Strikers" presented by Henry-Michael Brown. The Deck Building Fighting Game! Take on your opponent in a one on one street fight and be the first to knock them out in a best of 3 match. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B488: [BETA TEST] "Singularity" by Strange Theory Games; presented by Jeff Fraser. It's the year 2350, and the Earth is a hazardous wasteland. The only hope for humanity's survivors is to go virtual -- upload their consciousness to a software paradise run by the five artificial Superintelligences that dominate the solar system. You play as an AI servant of the SIs, whose job is to find surviving humans and upload them. Each round, you and your opponents will distribute hidden agents on Earth. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B489: [BETA TEST] "Sky Pirates" presented by Roberta Taylor. A swashbuckling deck builder that has you sailing the skies in search of bounty, upgrading your ship, hiring crew and fighting monsters in an attempt to become the most renowned captain in the air. Deck building and lots of dice rolling are the primary mechanics in this game. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B490: [BETA TEST] "Steepseers" by KinSoul Studio; presented by Eric Kovatchitch. You, a Steepseer, with the ability to foresee prophetic events by brewing tea and manipulating its Steam, are vanishing from a world of fading Belief. Collect your tea ingredients by rolling dice, fill your teapots, remember their contents, and pour delicious brews in order to collect powerful vision cards and restore the people's Belief in you. After 12 rounds, the Steepseer with the most Belief is regarded as the Savior of all Steepseers. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B491: [BETA TEST] "The Big Dig" by Flatout Games; presented by Shawn Stankewich. The Big Dig is a trick-taking, tableau-building, bag-pulling expedition into ancient buried chambers to uncover precious jewels. Players use character cards to win tricks and build their teams for the ultimate showdown when the legendary chamber is unearthed. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B492: [BETA TEST] "The Vulture Club" presented by Noah Arjomand. In this card game spoof on international journalism, you play a freelance reporter trying to make a name for yourself in a war zone and outmaneuver your competitors. Travel from cities to the front lines to meet contacts and gather story elements (or steal and barter your way to breaking news scoops), then use the deck you have built to create narratives that wow newsreaders back home. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B493: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B494: [BETA TEST] "Up and Over" presented by Beau LaManna. A two-player strategy boardgame where both sides advance their forces across No-Man's Land on a WW1 themed battlefield, using artillery and a variety of units to force their way behind enemy lines and claim victory. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Serious, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B495: [BETA TEST] "WBW: World Beats Wrestling" by Single Helix Studios; presented by Noah Cohen. A rhythm based card game? Don't overthink, bid to the beat! WBW: World Beats Wrestling puts a new spin on blind bidding games by adding rhythm. Players start with cards numbered 1-8 in their hands, then put on a song and take turns playing cards face down onto any of four piles while keeping up with the beat. Because each player bids face down, you can see where people are putting their cards, but not where they're putting their value. Keeping up with the beat dishes up a delightful dollop of disorder, disrupts your plans and doles out laughs. Win a pile by having the highest sum once everyone’s cards are down to improve your reputation and win fans. Race to build your fan base so the league will let you win bigger matches and become the face of the WBW. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B496: [BETA TEST] "Wizarding Trials" by Paw-Warrior Games; presented by Josh Paugh, Ben Krieger. Get ready for the ultimate wizard showdown as players face off in a series of magical trials to put your skills to the test. Each player will be fighting for superiority in the various magical categories by using their action cards to raise their skills, hinder their opponents, or throw a little chaos into the mix. This light-strategy game includes elements of a take-that style game and will keep you guessing about your opponents' strategies as each trial gets closer to completion. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B497: [BETA TEST] "Z4X" presented by Zintis May-Krumins. Spread across the stars and become the strongest empire in the galaxy. Race the other players to achieve galactic objectives by exploring new sectors or fighting over established territory. Featuring gameplay elements from Eclipse, Concordia, multi-use cards, dice combat, and exploring the vastness of space. Saturday, 11:00AM - 1:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B525: [BETA TEST] "Avoiding Glory" presented by Zachary Huff. Terrible threats have befallen your alliance of kingdoms as of late - and you'd rather not be the one that has to deal with them. You see, fighting back the threats brings glory to your kingdom... along with crippling financial burdens and tremendous casualties. For as long as anyone can remember, athletic competitions have been held to determine who will be bestowed the honor of defending the alliance. You have discovered an invaluable resource: terrible athletes that fill the local taverns. Unfortunately, the other kingdoms have caught on and seek out their competitors from the same pool. Analyze the threats (and their unique characteristics), draft the best worst athletes, and manage your team in the hopes of Avoiding Glory! Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B526: [BETA TEST] "Born to Serve" by Shoot Again Games; presented by Diane Sauer, Nick Sauer. Players are recently unemployed second tier superheroes in competition for a single wait staff job at a restaurant. Players serve tables by placing their time markers on them and ultimately the player who spends the most time on a table wins the table's tip. Players can also spend their time markers on the restaurant staff who allow them to use additional abilities to gain additional money or shift the odds in their favor on a table. Of course, being superheroes, each player also has a (nominally useful) power that allows them to bend certain strategies in their favor. The player who earns the most money in tips wins the job and the game. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B527: [BETA TEST] "Devil from the Sea" by Cardboard Edison; presented by Chris Zinsli, Suzanne Zinsli. A fully cooperative game where players work together to defend their Scottish isle from the mythic beast known as the Nuckelavee. You'll have to plan your moves carefully to build up your strength all while avoiding the monster's worst attacks. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B528: [BETA TEST] "Dodge This" by Aggressively Playable Games; presented by Noah Anderson. It's all fun and games until someone gets slammed in the face. The neighborhood kids are all ready for knockdown, drag out brawl with rubber serving as their artillery. Draft your team, and command them to Dodgeball Glory! Dodge This is a competitive drafting/squad strategy game for two players. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B529: [BETA TEST] "Drive Fighter" presented by Phillip Steinberg. A two-player action card game. Players take on the role of a tactician and control a faction of creatures with the goal of defeating their opponent's General. The game features several different mechanics that make card Manipulation have a tangible and a visual effect. The game features a mechanic that allows players to climb back from the jaws of defeat through clever resource usage. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B530: [BETA TEST] "F.L.O.W." by Wee Big Games; presented by Tam Myaing. A cooperative time-traveling game where you are an agent of F.L.O.W., the Federal Land and Oceanic Workforce, entrusted with maintaining the Temporal Continuum and the fate of the human race. Open time portals to pivotal locations in time, travel to these locations, and shape incidents to architect a favorable ripple effect through the continuum. Can you and your team of F.L.O.W. agents complete the directives before time runs out? Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B531: [BETA TEST] "Gladius" presented by Victoria Cana. A betting game about guts, glory, and gambling! Over the course of five rounds, players bet on teams of gladiators and play influence cards to alter the outcome of each event. Your goal is to make sure you're on the winning end by any means necessary. Can you outwit your opponents to profit off of the gladiatorial games, or will you be left empty-handed? Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B532: [BETA TEST] "Heroball" by Mind Bullet Games; presented by Geoffrey Engelstein. What do superheroes do in their spare time? Play Heroball! Heroball is a simple, fast, and fun two-player game that brings the classic vibrating electric football game to a modern audience. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B533: [BETA TEST] "Koi" by Wandering Hearth Games; presented by Bill Lasek. A tranquil abstract game in which players assume the roles of koi in a Japanese pond. Players play a combination of movement and environmental cards in a hex grid in an attempt to eat 7 Dragonflies while playing cards to prevent your opponents from doing the same. Koi introduces a unique weather mechanic where during each day (round) the weather changes and affects the game's rules- creating hindrances or opportunities for the players. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 0 seats left.
B534: [BETA TEST] "Magnificent Movie Moguls" by Vanishing City Games; presented by John Dermody. You are a movie producer in the "Golden Age of Cinema". You are competing with other studios in the acquisition of resources (Leading Ladies, Directors, etc.), soliciting money, paying off critics for good reviews among other things to produce Westerns, Comedies, Musicals and Mystery/Thrillers. By doing so you hope to gain enough prestige and money to create your "Epic" movie before any other studio. Beware, other players are trying to do so as well. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B535: [BETA TEST] "Nassau" presented by Tim Armstrong. Build trade routes and fulfill orders in the Lucayan Archipelago. Nassau is a light strategy game that implements tile drafting/placement and resource management. Each trade route tile has its own trade action. Placing a new trade route not only triggers that tile's action, but also triggers certain adjacent tiles in a chain reaction. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B536: [BETA TEST] "Nyctophobia" presented by Jonathan Gilmour. One player is a killer, the other players are being hunted in the woods. Try to survive and make it to the car before the hunter takes one of you down. This game has a unique twist that makes it unlike any other game of this type. This game is designed by Catherine Stippell, and being developed by Jonathan Gilmour. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B537: [BETA TEST] "One Minute Movies" by 9th Level Games; presented by Heather O'Neill. Let's make a Movie...right now! Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame by collaborating with your friends to make the best movie - YOURS! A party game where the budget sets the amount of time you have in each round to draw or name something in the movie. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B538: [BETA TEST] "Palette Gamut" by HitMouse Productions; presented by Joshua Ferraiuolo. A card game about collecting pigments and mixing paint. Collected pigments are combined with binders and solvents to form the colors according to their recipe. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B539: [BETA TEST] "Plutocracy" presented by Chris Anderson. Six empires battle for dominance of the galaxy. But you don't control any of them. You are an influencer using your connections to manipulate all of the empires to your own benefit. Build up economies, start wars, expand control and, when it suits you, change sides and bring the empire you helped build crashing back down for a tidy profit. Plutocracy is a 4X game with a focus on manipulating economies. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B540: [BETA TEST] "Quarantine Heroes" presented by Jessie Yaternick. A cooperative card game where the players must keep themselves and civilians alive against the threat of disease. Your team must handle exposures and control infections by finding and equipping gear, managing resources, and sheer luck. If anyone player or a civilian dies, then the game is lost. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B541: [BETA TEST] "Rambo: The Board Game" by Everything Epic Games; presented by Christopher Batarlis. A thematic, cooperative, tactical, miniatures, scenario-based campaign game that allows players to experience the events they remember from the film as well as embark on new, never-before-seen missions. The game provides sealed "Self-Expanding" mission envelopes that gradually add to the game as each mission started and completed. Each mission tells a story and takes the players on a unique adventure to various locations to save POWs, escape a military prison, raid a jungle encampment, defend a secret air base, survive a treacherous jungle, and more! Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B542: [BETA TEST] "Ravenspurn Abbey" presented by David Joria. A gothic mystery board game - The year is 1839. You have spent many weeks with Baron Ravenspurn - the captivating yet taciturn widower whom you adore. He has invited you to stay with him, but before you accept, you must learn if the stories about him are true. Is he a fraud and a killer, or are those merely malicious rumors? Search the forgotten corners of the abbey. Find the clues. Some people in the manor will be willing to help you, whilst others will stand in your way. Will you find paradise or peril in Ravenspurn Abbey? Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B543: [ALPHA TEST] "Rover" by Runaway Parade Games; presented by Gwen Ruelle. A new planet has been discovered and your company has dispatched a squadron of rovers to explore its surface and dig for precious minerals. Unfortunately your robots are not alone on the delivery ship, as a hard fought compromise has filled the cargo bay with hardware bearing the logos of several powerful corporations. Your company lawyers have informed you that the contract only guarantees cooperation on the delivery ship and mentions nothing about conduct on the surface. Direct your rover quickly and safely across the planet and fight back against your opponents by acquiring new cards and creating powerful combinations in this light hearted, deck building adventure that features a modular board and endless possibilities. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B544: [BETA TEST] "Show & Tile" by Jellybean Games; presented by Peter Hayward. Can't draw? No problem! Show & Tile is a Pictionary-like game with no artistic talent required. Instead of making your artwork with a pen and pencil, you use tangram tiles! Get your ideas into shape in this fast, fun, creative party game. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B545: [BETA TEST] "Symposium" presented by Dan Cassar. A game about competing scientific theories. Is phlogiston theory going to explain combustion? Or is Oxygen Theory going to sway public opinion? Will studies prove that disease is caused by exposure to miasma (bad air)? Or will the scientific community embrace Germ Theory? This medium-weight, traditional-feel card game casts players as patrons of the sciences in the early days of the Age of Reason. The patrons seek to back the right theory at the right time through two scoring rounds - first a local Colloquium, then at game end, the Great Symposium. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B546: [BETA TEST] "The Duel: Point of Honor" by Ironmark Games; presented by Mike Sette. A 2 player tactical card game about robots fighting for honor. A story of dueling, which became a legend in the army, runs through the epic of imperial wars. To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the lily, pursued a private contest through the years of universal carnage...also robots. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B547: [BETA TEST] "The Networks: Executives" by Formal Ferret Games; presented by Gil Hova. So you've run a TV network in The Networks. Big deal. Can you do it with an Executive? The Networks: Executives is the first major expansion for the strategy board game The Networks. In it, you'll choose an Executive who will give you a special power (and a special liability) during the game. Can you master your Executive's idiosyncrasies and come out on top? This is a BLIND TEST of the expansion's rulebook, so it helps to have played The Networks before! Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B548: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B549: [BETA TEST] "Wayward Crowns" by Thursday Games; presented by Beth Erikson. A land of four kingdoms. A shattered empire. A balance to be restored. Chaos has spread and the courts are scattered. In Wayward Crowns, you must hunt down your kingdom's missing nobles, repair your ancient artifact and restore balance before the other players and before chaos takes over completely. In this board game, players will choose a kingdom (Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs or Spades), each with different skills. Players will then face encounters, earn magical items and explore the kingdoms to find and rescue their nobles. Players must be careful in their journey though, or the chaos could corrupt them. Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B550: [BETA TEST] "YouRateDogs" by Silverback Press; presented by Darren Watts. A fun, relatively light family card game for 3-6 players, licensed from and based on the popular WeRateDogs Twitter account, with adorable dog pictures and hilarious commentary from WeRateDogs creator Matt Nelson! Players draft dogs into their kennels, and then put them up for competition based on their "stats" like Floof, Sass, and Ears. Remember, they're all good dogs, Brent, so everybody's stats are at least 10/10 and go up from there (except for the dreaded Your Dog Is Actually A Baby Hippo In Disguise card!). Saturday, 2:00PM - 4:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B578: [BETA TEST] "Abstract Academy" by Flatout Games; presented by Shawn Stankewich. Art students compete for the top grade by creating paintings that appeal to their zany professors. Players take turns creating a colorful mosaic, then manipulate it to advance their own play areas through various actions. This fast-paced visual puzzle card game has an ounce of take-that and demands shifting strategies from round to round. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B579: [ALPHA TEST] "Chronicle of Kings" by Pendelhaven; presented by Andrew Valkauskas. Set during the Viking age in the Fate of the Norns universe. Players take on a dynasty of Viking rulers who wish to be immortalized in legend. Each turn spans several years, meaning that the bloodline will need to plan for marriage and children. Victory is achieved by being the bloodline with the most renown, and the game rewards players for memorable play. There are many ways to achieve renown, allowing players to pursue different paths to victory (ie. quests, military conquests, trade/raid, diplomatic intrigue, etc.). Rather than a mundane actions, players initiate scenes filled with drama, conflict and tension. All of the memories are created and situated upon a world map. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B580: [BETA TEST] "Cinder Spires Privateers" by Brooklyn Indie Games; presented by Tim Rodriguez. A pick-up-and-deliver deckbuilding game that puts you in command of a privateering ship. Manage your hand well to fulfill contracts and deliver commodities to bolster your reputation. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B581: [BETA TEST] Event Canceled. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B582: [BETA TEST] "Cube of Death" by Studio187; presented by Peter Bryant. a trivia card game that incorporates role playing mechanics. Adventures can be run with simplistic characters using trivia questions to resolve conflicts, dice to deliver damage, and magic items to enhance the dynamic. Last person with hits wins. There is also a trick taking version for simplistic fast play. This game is 90% finished and is going to Kickstarter in mid-February. The designer is looking for one final round of play testing to try out the final revisions from the previous play tests. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B583: [BETA TEST] "Gladius" presented by Victoria Cana. A betting game about guts, glory, and gambling! Over the course of five rounds, players bet on teams of gladiators and play influence cards to alter the outcome of each event. Your goal is to make sure you're on the winning end by any means necessary. Can you outwit your opponents to profit off of the gladiatorial games, or will you be left empty-handed? Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B584: [BETA TEST] "Glory Hounds" by Slightly Offensive Games; presented by Thomas Hornemann. Congratulations, your plan has succeeded and the Generalismo is dead! Now to eliminate your co-conspirators and become the new Generalismo. But what's this? The peasants have broken out in revolt to throw off your oppressive yolk? That cannot stand! Take the on the role of a general in a banana republic suppressing a democratic revolution. Throw your troops into the meatgrinder of war, and more importantly, gain glory from their sacrifices and the sacrifices of those of your soon to be erstwhile allies while denying them the glory and notoriety of claiming victory. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B585: [BETA TEST] "Good Dog, Bad Zombie" by Make Big Things; presented by Hannah Shaffer. A cooperative game where Homeward Bound meets The Walking Dead. Together, you and your doggo pack will have to rescue enough hoomans in a crumbling metropolis and bring them back to the home you're building in Central Bark. Can you save enough people before you go feral and you forget what it means to feel the love of a hooman? Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B586: [BETA TEST] "Imagine Majesty" by Imagine Majesty Productions, LLC; presented by Davin Loegering. A game with multiple play scenarios: 4X campaign, cooperative wave defense, and solo/team skirmish with sci-fi/fantasy and historical/epic fantasy components. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B587: [BETA TEST] "Lazer Ryderz: Expansions" by Cardboard Fortress Games; presented by Anthony Amato, Nicole Kline. It's season 2 of the radical 80s trackless racing game LAZER RYDERZ! After passing through the dimensional portals, our heroes find themselves in The Danger Zone. Test out strange new phenomena, exciting new characters, and the effects of terrain in our upcoming expansion. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 8 seats left.
B588: [BETA TEST] "Lords of Shadowtree" by Grim Fantasy Games; presented by Conner Cole. An adventure strategy board game. Players take on the role of a Lord seeking to either establish their kingdom first or slay all other players for domination. However, monsters roam near and far, wreaking havoc upon all in their way. Foes might be forced band together to survive, only to then backstab each other, or align for mutual victory. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B589: [BETA TEST] "Martian Badlands" by Space Lion Games; presented by Sara Perry. In the Martian Badlands, there are no laws and the corporations know it. You are the original colonists of Mars fighting tooth and nail to protect your land as encroaching corporations try to take it from you. Work together with your eccentric neighbors to build your dice pool and successfully fend off the corporate thieves. Martian Badlands is a cooperative, dice building and worker placement game. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B590: [BETA TEST] "Midwinter Fair" by Legendsmiths; presented by Ryan O'Grady. A Euro-style worker-placement game in which you play a crafter and shop owner, working to become the next Master Crafter. Send adventurers on quests to acquire special resources, fulfill special orders for nobles, improve your workshop, and sell your wares at the eponymous Midwinter Fair. Similar in style to Lords of Waterdeep and Agricola, with some story game flair. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 0 seats left.
B591: [BETA TEST] "Mining Colony" presented by Anthony Fiumano. A Worker placement type game where each turn players are taking an action to help contribute to the Colony as a whole. At the end of 6 rounds the person who has contributed the most (gotten the most Victory Points) will have won. Players gain VP by Reproducing, Constructing Buildings, Crafting Items, Slaying Monsters, Gathering Animals, or creating Farms for the Colony. It's your adventure to do as you see fit. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B592: [BETA TEST] "New Beeginnings" by Blue Fairy Games; presented by Matt Parish. It is Springtime in the local beehive and the queen is ready to swarm to seek out and establish a new home. To prepare, she is holding a competition for the hive to see which bees are best fit to go with her. As a player, you take on the role of a team of bees competing in this game. Can you be more efficient than your opponents in collecting resources for the hive, manage new growth, and protecting the hive from danger and disease? Only the best will get to go with the queen on this new adventure! Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B593: [BETA TEST] "Please Drive-Thru" by Split Brain Games; presented by Joel Colombo. Can you build a chain of fast food restaurants that meets the changing demands of customers on the busiest boulevard in town. Over a series of 3 dinner rush drive-thru phases, players will use simultaneous hidden action selection to manipulate their restaurants supplies, locations, inventory, and even influence customer demands. After 2-4 actions are taken, the customers drive thru and buy up as much of your supplies as they desire. The game uses a deep thinking strategy of measuring supply and demand and spacial positioning to make you the wealthiest Fast Food Drive-Thru empire in town. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B594: [BETA TEST] "Rambo: The Board Game" by Everything Epic Games; presented by Christopher Batarlis. A thematic, cooperative, tactical, miniatures, scenario-based campaign game that allows players to experience the events they remember from the film as well as embark on new, never-before-seen missions. The game provides sealed "Self-Expanding" mission envelopes that gradually add to the game as each mission started and completed. Each mission tells a story and takes the players on a unique adventure to various locations to save POWs, escape a military prison, raid a jungle encampment, defend a secret air base, survive a treacherous jungle, and more! Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B595: [BETA TEST] "Salvage" presented by Nolan James. A space-themed strategy game where you collect sets of stray 'Ship Parts' from the board. Armed with Movement, Rotation, Attack, and Defense cards, players maneuver between debris to outwit and disarm their opponents. The first player to put their ship back together and escape wins! We're testing a smaller board for 2-3 players. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B596: [BETA TEST] "Seek and Go Hyde" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. A territory control game of dual moralities. Play as famous mad scientists of the 1800s and their assistants as you rummage through the recently deceased Henry Jekyll's home in search of his discoveries. But your assistants are thirsty, and we all know where that leads... Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B597: [BETA TEST] "Sharknado: The Board Game!" by Devious Devices, LLC; presented by Anthony Rando. The officially-licensed tabletop game of the cult-hit franchise, Sharknado: The Board Game! is a cooperative, scenario-based game for 2 to 4 players, ages 15 and up. Players assume the roles of brave citizens of a coastal city, working together to battle hordes of man-eating sharks as they attempt to thwart the ultimate weather phenomenon! Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B598: [BETA TEST] "Space Farm" presented by Travis Magrum. Mine for interplanetary resources to sell for profit or improve your mining operation in this competitive engine- and deck-builder. Getting useful cards back out of your deck is as important as gaining them in the first place. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B599: [BETA TEST] "Space Runners" presented by Robin Liu. A press your luck adventure card game. Each player selects a hero and tries to run through each location, encountering creatures and traps on the way, while he/she tries to lockdown the location for extra points. Space Runners can be played cooperatively or against each other in teams or free for all. A quick and fun game that is simple to pick up and play with family and friends. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B600: [BETA TEST] "Speculate" by Snowman Games; presented by Mike Schuller. Can you manage your resources in different stock market sectors to collect more fame and fortune than your opponents? This new trick taking game lets you manage your assets as different assets will be valued differently as the game progresses. Play testers will be asked to provide feedback on several rule variants as well as comment on the game. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
[FILLED] B601: [BETA TEST] "Spirit Realms: Tengoku-SR" by The Raven & The Widow, LLC; presented by Ted Gerard. An army fort builder card game that revolves around a retelling of the gods as animal warrior spirits called Spirit Masters. Each warrior is Ruler of 1 of the 9 realms in the world of Tengoku, SR Prime being the first realm. Each realm is represented by a Spirit Master who comes with his own deck of power, each deck with it's own strengths and weakness. Players must protect their throne by defending their forts from being destroyed while attempting to capture their opponent's Throne. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B602: [BETA TEST] "Splatterbomb" presented by Henry-Michael Brown. The run and shoot board game! Score the highest points by moving around the Stage while spraying the field and knocking your opponent's out for more advance sprays. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B603: [BETA TEST] "Steepseers" by KinSoul Studio; presented by Eric Kovatchitch. You, a Steepseer, with the ability to foresee prophetic events by brewing tea and manipulating its Steam, are vanishing from a world of fading Belief. Collect your tea ingredients by rolling dice, fill your teapots, remember their contents, and pour delicious brews in order to collect powerful vision cards and restore the people's Belief in you. After 12 rounds, the Steepseer with the most Belief is regarded as the Savior of all Steepseers. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B604: [BETA TEST] "Taking Stock" by Spare the Rod Games; presented by Rod Currie. Taking Stock is a trick-taking stock market manipulation game. In this game, you will play cards to both manipulate stock prices and try to win tricks which will give you shares of those stocks. More shares in stocks with higher prices earn you more money. The most money wins. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B605: [BETA TEST] "Team Evl" by Infinite Lives, LLC; presented by Ethan Weber. A UN-cooperative game of wit, deception, and deduction. Join team evl to cure boredom, and release evil back into the world. CAUTION: As you play, evil whispers destroy your once noble thoughts. You will seek the ruin of your friends and to rule the world through the absolute power of evil. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B606: [BETA TEST] "The Lion & The Eagle" by Arbor Games; presented by Jerry Wang. A World War II hybrid Euro/wargaming experience in which players relive some of the great strategic dilemmas that defined the contest between Albion's Lion and the Eagle of the Third Reich. Taking over in High Command, players will use their decks and the game board to plan their strategies, appoint Commanders and enact Policies, fight battles at sea and in the skies, and ultimately, achieve victory for their side. Saturday, 4:00PM - 8:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B607: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B608: [BETA TEST] "Vanilla" presented by Chris Anderson. The production of vanilla is a very delicate process. The plants must be pollinated by hand, carefully harvested, and cured. At any point in the process mistakes can lower the quality of your harvest. Vanilla is an economic, farming euro. Each player starts with a small vanilla plantation. Use the profits from your harvest to expand your plantation and upgrade your equipment. Should you take it slow and make the highest quality vanilla? Or rush to produce a large harvest of lower quality? Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B609: [BETA TEST] "Vinyl" presented by Eric Alvarado. Players are aspiring vinyl collectors. They have a glimpse of knowledge of what they would like to collect, but immediately get immersed into the experience. Players will acquire morsels of information after visiting the "Mag Rack". That information will lead them to the bins where they select albums to add and expand their collection. Albums can be played at the listening booth to future increase the value of a player's collection and their ability to collect even more albums. Unfortunately, the inventory is limited and other customers may be after the same vinyl gems. After the final round is concluded, players will tally their collection’s value and determine who is the Elite Vinyl Collector! Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B610: [ALPHA TEST] "Writer's Room" presented by John Adamus. A card game where players compete against one another to try and develop the best storyline for a fictional TV pilot, using everything from Protagonists to Plot Twists in an effort to be the first Writer to successfully accomplish their goal. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B611: [BETA TEST] "XCENDANCY" presented by Rocco Privetera. A competitive sci-fi themed very lite 4x style game. Players take turns playing single action turns to build up their empire's tableau to gain various resources, explore for new systems, build upgrades and research tech, deal with events, and compete against other players to become a full empire first. Gameplay is fast and elegant, and reminiscent of Machi Koro and Splendor, while still scratching the 4x itch. Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B612: [BETA TEST] "YouRateDogs" by Silverback Press; presented by Darren Watts. A fun, relatively light family card game for 3-6 players, licensed from and based on the popular WeRateDogs Twitter account, with adorable dog pictures and hilarious commentary from WeRateDogs creator Matt Nelson! Players draft dogs into their kennels, and then put them up for competition based on their "stats" like Floof, Sass, and Ears. Remember, they're all good dogs, Brent, so everybody's stats are at least 10/10 and go up from there (except for the dreaded Your Dog Is Actually A Baby Hippo In Disguise card!). Saturday, 4:00PM - 6:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B645: [FOCUS GROUP] "Proving Ground" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Kiva Fecteau. We've spent a few years designing "Raid on Gingerbread Lane,' a co-opetition tabletop game about feeding waves of monsters cupcakes so they don't eat your town. Now we're creating a world around it, with plans for a worker placement game as well as "Proving Ground," a dark fantasy tower defense game. I'd like some help thinking through what character ability discovery and evolution might look like for this game. Whatever we develop will influence the design of the other two games as well. Saturday, 6:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B651: [BETA TEST] "Adventures of the Cimmerian Forest" by Mayham Games; presented by Isaac Gibbs. One of three finalists for most dynamic game at the 2017 Boston FIG, this is a co-operative card game where players play as a group of survivalist trappers tasked to build elaborate traps and weapons using 3 basic resources found in the forest. It is a great introduction to the world of hobby board games by putting a unique spin on the use of simple mechanics such as set collection, resource management, and trading. Adventures of the Cimmerian Forest makes co-op play incredibly accessible for all ages with its limited use of text and use of simplistic and abstract card design. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B652: [BETA TEST] "AEGIS Tacticlash" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. A tactical card combat game based around combining robots. Players buy robots from a shared deck, which they then use to tactically move and attack. These robots generate energy, which allows you to buy more robots, and combine then together into more powerful forms. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B653: [BETA TEST] "Animus" by Zero Budget Geek; presented by Eriberto Rodriguez. A small, two-player card game inspired by fighting video games and turn-based monster combat RPGs. The game has players drafting a team of 9 unique characters from a spanning multiverse to compete while leading their team with one of 6 Entity cards. Every game will have a completely new roster! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B654: [BETA TEST] "Ark Worlds" by Unpossible Game Labs; presented by Orion McClelland. A 2-player skirmish inspired by MOBAs and hero based team shooters. Ark Worlds takes an approach that simplifies the laning in MOBAs and emphasizes the team fight in order to gain strategic advantage. In Ark Worlds, you will gather a team of 6 heroes, Each player will deploy 4 heroes per engagement and activate abilities back and force until all actions have been exhausted. The team with the highest total dominance when the dust clears will control the objective. This game appeals to people who like the gameplay of Magic or Net Runner but do notwant to sift the hundreds of cards. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B655: [BETA TEST] "Big Top" presented by Dan Cassar. A two-player microgame that challenges players to manipulate circus performers like the Human Cannonball, the Tightrope Walker and the Strong Man to enable their own evil clown to escape the Big Top. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B656: [BETA TEST] "Cards of Impact: Choose Your Destiny" by CBR Solutions; presented by Grant Peirce. Engage. Choose. Win by growing from strength to strength. Impact your relationships! This character-based card game will challenge your assumptions about your instincts and values. You will know yourself and your fellow players in new and intriguing ways. Successful players will seize their destiny! This game uses reality-based Challenge, Choice, and Character cards. Players choose from variations of the game based on age, skill level, time, competitive/collaborative modes, and what is most fun for them! Created by Susanne - a relationship coach, Grant - a psychometrician, and Johann - a financial analyst. The world is a crazy place, so we decided to create a reality-based card game to help us survive, connect, and thrive. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B657: [BETA TEST] "Cartrigia" by Wandering Hearth Games; presented by Bill Lasek. A retro tile based light dungeon crawler with the feel of classic RPGs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, and Zelda. Players control a group of 1 to 6 asymetrical heroes while they explore the dungeon, battle classic monsters, gain valuable items, and if they're good enough - and can stay alive long enough - defeat the Dungeon Lord. Features multiple difficulty levels from easy to epic - no two games the same! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B658: [BETA TEST] "Clear the Decks!" by Crispy Games Company; presented by Christopher Pinyan. A cooperative card game for 1-4 players depicting naval warfare during the age of sail. Players each command 3 cannon and use a variety of ammunition, tactics and officers to destroy the enemy ship structures, guns and crew. Can you and your shipmates work together to sink the enemy before all of your cannon are destroyed? Its time to prepare for action and Clear the Decks! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B659: [BETA TEST] "Cook-Off: Diced Expansion" by Critical-Hits Studios LLC; presented by David Chalker. The first planned expansion for Cook-Off, a real time speed dice game of cooking dishes and serving meals coming in 2018. In this variant, each chef is given four mystery box ingredients and must use them all in the best dish and to serve the judges based on their individual preferences. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B660: [BETA TEST] "Cube of Death" by Studio187; presented by Peter Bryant. a trivia card game that incorporates role playing mechanics. Adventures can be run with simplistic characters using trivia questions to resolve conflicts, dice to deliver damage, and magic items to enhance the dynamic. Last person with hits wins. There is also a trick taking version for simplistic fast play. This game is 90% finished and is going to Kickstarter in mid-February. The designer is looking for one final round of play testing to try out the final revisions from the previous play tests. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B661: [BETA TEST] "Earthforge" by KinSoul Studio; presented by Jordan Mathews. A fast-paced, competitive, arena-brawler for 2 to 4 players. Taking control of powerful Valkyries from around the world, players will use their unique powers to battle their way through other champions and fearsome beasts in order to take control of the legendary Earthforge. Using its vast power, a Valkyrie may reshape the world in their image. Will you seize victory from your foes, or will you cower in their shadow? Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B662: [BETA TEST] "Everyone's a Suspect" presented by Kristin Firth. It's a small town and somebody has been murdered. Everyone is a suspect. Including everyone at this table. *Especially* everyone at this table. This is a card-based mystery game, in the tradition of storytelling games (like Once Upon a Time). Taking turns, we will tell the story of a group of characters in a murder victim's life and how the murder affects them. The murderer will be determined at the end of the game. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B663: [BETA TEST] "First Responders, Inc." by Loremaster Games; presented by Ryan Schoon. Play as one of the four corporations competing to privatize First Reponse units in the distant future. Prove that you deserve the city's exclusive contract by building and upgrading your fleet of police, fire, and medical vehicles, hiring dispatchers to increase response time, responding to emergencies, completing crisis cards, and working towards secret objectives. Each corporation has a unique feel with variable powers and player boards in this light Euro-inspired board game. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B664: [BETA TEST] "Great Aunt Gertie's Attic" presented by Doug Levandowski. You and your cousins might hate each other, but you love your Great Aunt Gertie. She has invited you all over to help her clean out her attic, but she's going to make you work together before you get anything! In this fast-paced negotiation game, players compete to collect the best sets in exactly three minutes - and the more you trade, the more you get! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B665: [BETA TEST] "Hero: Tales of the Tomes" presented by Jimmy Ellerth. A multiplayer card game in which each of the players takes the role of a legendary hero and battles it out until only one is left standing. All players play off of one shared deck together, so no prior deck building or collecting is required. The gameplay is fast and exciting. With all the potential for twists and comebacks, you'll never truly feel out of the game. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B666: [BETA TEST] "Human Era" by Lay Waste Games; presented by Jake Given. A social deduction game where you and your crew are aboard the last time machine to save space and time from the chaos unleashed by the haphazard time traveling of humans. However, among your crew are machines and cyborgs disguised as humans with their own goals in mind. Achieve your goal of repairing or destroying the space-time continuum before fuel runs out! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 3 seats left.
B667: [BETA TEST] "Id, Ego, Eye" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Adam Fischer. You're under attack! Shield your mind, build up its strength, and choose whether to fight back using your Id, Ego, Third Eye, or some combination of all of them. Play with one of our prebuilt decks of cards or advance to creating your own. Experience the fast and furious tug-of-war as players fight to keep from losing their minds! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B668: [BETA TEST] "Magnolia Sun" by Learn Larp LLC; presented by Benjamin Morrow, Mike Young. In this cooperative storytelling adventure board game by Mike Young, you'll create a character (a student at Magnolia Sun primaschola in Solaris Province), and go from scene to scene on adventure after adventure. You'll work together with your fellow students to solve mysteries, overcome obstacles, and combat dangerous creatures. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B669: [BETA TEST] "Martian Badlands" by Space Lion Games; presented by Sara Perry. In the Martian Badlands, there are no laws and the corporations know it. You are the original colonists of Mars fighting tooth and nail to protect your land as encroaching corporations try to take it from you. Work together with your eccentric neighbors to build your dice pool and successfully fend off the corporate thieves. Martian Badlands is a cooperative, dice building and worker placement game. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B670: [BETA TEST] "Mining Colony" presented by Anthony Fiumano. A Worker placement type game where each turn players are taking an action to help contribute to the Colony as a whole. At the end of 6 rounds the person who has contributed the most (gotten the most Victory Points) will have won. Players gain VP by Reproducing, Constructing Buildings, Crafting Items, Slaying Monsters, Gathering Animals, or creating Farms for the Colony. It's your adventure to do as you see fit. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B671: [BETA TEST] "Myth and Mettle" presented by ErikPeter Walker. A cooperative, monster-slaying card game set in Ancient Greece. The heroes attempt to slay three legendary monsters, like Chimera or Medusa. Tactically play cards to maneuver and attack, while mitigating the attacks of the monsters. Each hero and monster has their own unique abilities, encouraging players to explore new strategies from battle to battle. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B672: [BETA TEST] "Narco-State: Afghanistan" presented by Noah Arjomand. Players take the role of provincial warlords, Taliban insurgents or foreign governments, all seeking to maximize their own prestige in the quagmire of post-2001 Afghanistan. Use opium revenues and aid money to strengthen your forces and pay off rivals. Choose the right combination of fighting, peaceful negotiating, and political patronage in pursuit of prestige. Narco-State: Afghanistan uses fun, light gameplay to satire a serious topic. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 5 seats left.
B673: [BETA TEST] "Obelisk" by SE2OND; presented by Adam Ciffone. The chess of blocks. Obelisk is a high-end, custom two player board game where players must construct their blocks three dimensionally before their opponent does. Similar to its companion product, Aporia, a player's ability to strategize future moves is at hand. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. [NDA REQUIRED] ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B674: [BETA TEST] "Party Fowl" by Hebanon Games; presented by Caleb Stokes. An area-control, modular-board card game designed for a party atmosphere. In the game, players assume the role of students at Duck U. It's the week before finals, and these ducks need to party! But partying is a delicate art, where the leader of the flock can quickly turn into a real lame duck. If you can navigate the social rapids, it only takes one great night to become big duck on campus. In Party Fowl, you move your duck around the house and start conversations that make you the life of the party. Just watch out for those basic hens and duck bois looking to sabotage your fun! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 3 seats left.
B675: [BETA TEST] "Quantum Quest" by Black Furnace Games; presented by Michael DeAngelo. A dungeon crawler card game that pits you against your friends in a game that never plays the same way twice. Players put together teams of adventurers and travel through the dungeon, encountering chambers that will hurt you unless you capture them. You can only capture chambers if you have enough mana, and an adventurer that matches the room’s class type. Once you own the chambers, you decide how they harm your opponents when they land there. Claim victory if you are the only survivor! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B676: [BETA TEST] "QuestFour" presented by Robert Brown. Place one of your pieces, then turn any tile. It seems simple to win, just get four of your pieces in a row. But is it that simple? Players must think in multiple dimensions while adapting to an ever changing playing field. Just when you think you've won, your opponent can take it away with the twist of a board. QuestFour is a 4D spatial strategy game where players use their pieces in multiple dimensions while adapting to a dynamic playing field. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B677: [BETA TEST] "Rambo: The Board Game" by Everything Epic Games; presented by Christopher Batarlis. A thematic, cooperative, tactical, miniatures, scenario-based campaign game that allows players to experience the events they remember from the film as well as embark on new, never-before-seen missions. The game provides sealed "Self-Expanding" mission envelopes that gradually add to the game as each mission started and completed. Each mission tells a story and takes the players on a unique adventure to various locations to save POWs, escape a military prison, raid a jungle encampment, defend a secret air base, survive a treacherous jungle, and more! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B678: [BETA TEST] "Rampaging Jotunn: Winter War 4-Player Expansion" by Lost Cog Games; presented by Matthias Bonnici. Return to the unnamed island in this exciting 4 player expansion to Rampaging Jotunn! This massive expansion includes complete with new land types, new land boards that further expand the borders of the unnamed island. There are 2 new armies, new rules for 2, 3 and 4 players, armor, weapons, new cards, new powers, and new components that expand the Rampaging Jotunn Saga... and did we mention the 2nd Jotunn? Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B679: [ALPHA TEST] "Rover" by Runaway Parade Games; presented by Gwen Ruelle. A new planet has been discovered and your company has dispatched a squadron of rovers to explore its surface and dig for precious minerals. Unfortunately your robots are not alone on the delivery ship, as a hard fought compromise has filled the cargo bay with hardware bearing the logos of several powerful corporations. Your company lawyers have informed you that the contract only guarantees cooperation on the delivery ship and mentions nothing about conduct on the surface. Direct your rover quickly and safely across the planet and fight back against your opponents by acquiring new cards and creating powerful combinations in this light hearted, deck building adventure that features a modular board and endless possibilities. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 2 seats left.
B680: [BETA TEST] "Sharknado: The Board Game!" by Devious Devices, LLC; presented by Anthony Rando. The officially-licensed tabletop game of the cult-hit franchise, Sharknado: The Board Game! is a cooperative, scenario-based game for 2 to 4 players, ages 15 and up. Players assume the roles of brave citizens of a coastal city, working together to battle hordes of man-eating sharks as they attempt to thwart the ultimate weather phenomenon! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B681: [BETA TEST] "Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Jeffrey Van Ness. In Soaring Rhino's follow-up expansion to Shifting Realms, players delve into three new realms that can be added to the base game. Build towers that feed the demons and take control of fierce gargoyles. See what is new in Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B682: [BETA TEST] "Steam Masters" by Branum Games; presented by Tiffany Branum. This is a steampunk inspired game about investing during the Age of Steam. Play as aristocrats investing in steam inventors who create a variety of intriguing items. Through three rounds, you will commission your chosen inventors, and for each round the most successful inventors will be tallied up. Whoever backs the most successful overall inventor wins the game! Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B683: [BETA TEST] "Stellar Siege" by Paw-Warrior Games; presented by Josh Paugh, Ben Krieger. A two-player strategy card game where each player is playing as a different alien species vying for control of a distant star system. Gain control of as many planets as you can by playing more of your aliens to the planet than your opponent. Each of the 8 planets in the star system is represented by a number (1-8). The number of cards in your hand will determine the planet number you are allowed to play to for your turn, so hand-size management is key. During gameplay, you will be activating effects of your alien cards, as well as the planets themselves to manipulate your hand size to plan your next move, as well as thwart your opponent's strategy. This game has a simple core mechanic, but allows for in depth decision making that will keep you in suspense until the end of the game. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B684: [BETA TEST] "Sword of Kings" by Red Knight Card Games; presented by Mathew Rutan. This game consists of 108 beautifully crafted cards. The goal for each knight is to build a unique tunnel to their dragon’s Lair. While building their tunnel, knights will discover various magical treasures and encounter friendly people to help them on their quest. At the same time, Knights will find evil creatures and various obstacles they can play on the other knights to slow their progress. Once inside the lair, knights must fight the dragon that is defending the sword. The first knight to defeat the dragon claims the Sword of Kings and wins the game. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
B685: [BETA TEST] "The Aura Masters of Avin" by Geoffquest; presented by Geoff Bottone. Explore an isolated fantasy world of strange powers, social strife, and omnipresent paranoia, where old enemies gather in the shadows on every side. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 8 seats left.
B686: [BETA TEST] "The Council" by Jellybean Games; presented by Peter Hayward. The government has discovered that the high council has been infiltrated, and they're offering generous bounties to whoever can identify them. A new social deduction game with a bidding element, The Council is for people who want to take Werewolf/Mafia/The Resistance to the next level. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 10 seats left.
B687: [BETA TEST] "They" by Wee Big Games; presented by Tam Myaing. A competitive resource management strategy game where you command a flying saucer and your task is to gather food for your dying planet. Disseminate feeding tubes to terrestrial sites and harvest food from various sources. Upgrade your saucer and improve your food production. Fill up your craft with nutrients and be the first to be awarded the Honor of the Mother. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B688: [BETA TEST] "WBW: World Beats Wrestling" by Single Helix Studios; presented by Noah Cohen. A rhythm based card game? Don't overthink, bid to the beat! WBW: World Beats Wrestling puts a new spin on blind bidding games by adding rhythm. Players start with cards numbered 1-8 in their hands, then put on a song and take turns playing cards face down onto any of four piles while keeping up with the beat. Because each player bids face down, you can see where people are putting their cards, but not where they're putting their value. Keeping up with the beat dishes up a delightful dollop of disorder, disrupts your plans and doles out laughs. Win a pile by having the highest sum once everyone’s cards are down to improve your reputation and win fans. Race to build your fan base so the league will let you win bigger matches and become the face of the WBW. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B689: [BETA TEST] "You Are Not Alone" by 9 Kingdoms Publications; presented by Ivan Turner. You don't know how long you and the others have been trapped inside of the house. You all want to be free. But the only way to leave is when someone new enters. Someone new has just entered. You Are Not Alone is a card game where you desperately try to map an escape route through a deck of location cards. Armed with your own deck of "stock" cards, you'll populate locations on your "track" and try to implement a strategy that sees you through the exit before any of your opponents. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B690: [BETA TEST] "Zeno" by Mind Bullet Games; presented by Brian Engelstein. A quick-playing, casual, deck-building game. Players flip cards from a personal deck in an attempt to have the second highest total at the table. Cards are then drafted to improve the decks and the next round begins. This game is perfect for players of all ages and experience levels. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B691: [BETA TEST] "Zombie Kitten Factory" by Soaring Rhino Inc.; presented by Craig Van Ness. The Kitten Toy Factory was a nice place to work for kittens until the zombie kittens invaded. Players will need to work together in this cooperative game to complete their kittens' factory orders. Placers race against a timer to trade cards and plan out their best paths to complete their factory orders while trying to avoid the zombie kittens. The bad thing about zombie kittens is... they keep coming. Saturday, 8:00PM - 10:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B716: [BETA TEST] "AEGIS Tacticlash" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. A tactical card combat game based around combining robots. Players buy robots from a shared deck, which they then use to tactically move and attack. These robots generate energy, which allows you to buy more robots, and combine then together into more powerful forms. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B717: [BETA TEST] "Agency" by Outboard; presented by John Atwood. A tense and breathless strategy card game that allows two to five players to explore a the ruthless underworld of espionage. There is a deck of agents and a deck of assets from which players draw and a field is created. You must think on your toes to make the best decisions with just two cards at the beginning of your turn. Will you confront an opponent, make contact with the field, or move assets to your safehouse? You advance by dominating the city. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B718: [BETA TEST] "Animus" by Zero Budget Geek; presented by Eriberto Rodriguez. A small, two-player card game inspired by fighting video games and turn-based monster combat RPGs. The game has players drafting a team of 9 unique characters from a spanning multiverse to compete while leading their team with one of 6 Entity cards. Every game will have a completely new roster! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B719: [BETA TEST] "Aporia" by SE2OND; presented by Adam Ciffone. A high-end, custom two-player board game where players must outmaneuver each other using limited space and resources. Similar to its companion product, Obelisk, advanced "two or three move ahead" analytical strategy is put to the test during game play. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. [NDA REQUIRED] There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B720: [BETA TEST] "Arcana Magi Academy" presented by Henry-Michael Brown. The shufflebuilding combat game! As Sensei, choose 2 sets of School Club cards and 1 set of Campus cards, then shuffle them into your deck and get ready for the annual school event...Battlerun! Be the first to score 10 Victory Points to win! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B721: [BETA TEST] "Avoiding Glory" presented by Zachary Huff. Terrible threats have befallen your alliance of kingdoms as of late - and you'd rather not be the one that has to deal with them. You see, fighting back the threats brings glory to your kingdom... along with crippling financial burdens and tremendous casualties. For as long as anyone can remember, athletic competitions have been held to determine who will be bestowed the honor of defending the alliance. You have discovered an invaluable resource: terrible athletes that fill the local taverns. Unfortunately, the other kingdoms have caught on and seek out their competitors from the same pool. Analyze the threats (and their unique characteristics), draft the best worst athletes, and manage your team in the hopes of Avoiding Glory! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B722: [BETA TEST] "Before there were Stars" by Smirk & Dagger Games; presented by Curt Covert. A storytelling game in which each player tells the mythic creation story of 'their people.' Inspired Constellation cards, players craft tales about the creation of the world, the origins of civilization, the rise of a great hero, and the end of days. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B723: [BETA TEST] "Bidrock" by Formal Ferret Games; presented by Gil Hova. Scrape the skies! You are a real estate developer in competition with your opponents to build the tallest skyscraper in the city. Bidrock is a strategy board game centered around a tricky auction. Bid for turn order, which will get you first crack at the resources you need to fulfill your architects' blueprints. But seeing as how a person can only find love and happiness through tremendous financial wealth (at least, that's what everyone else says), make sure you don't go too deep into debt, and you're not the poorest player by the end of the game! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 2 seats left.
B724: [BETA TEST] "Ceylon" by Cardboard Edison; presented by Chris Zinsli, Suzanne Zinsli. The island of Ceylon was transformed by the tea trade in the 1800s, and in this medium-weight euro-style game your goal is to plant, harvest and sell tea to become the best tea company on the island. The game features a unique action-sharing mechanism that keeps you involved during every turn of the game. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B725: [BETA TEST] "Doomsday Prepper" by Strange Theory Games; presented by Jeff Fraser. The end is nigh! Doomsday Prepper is a comedic tableau-building game where you try to prepare for the end of the world - and see who can last the longest! In the preparation phase, you'll recruit fellow survivalists to help build a bunker and stock up on enough food, morale, and useful items to last for years underground. Once Doomsday hits, you'll see how long your supplies last and how well you can deal with disasters that befall you and your bunkermates. The last player standing is declared the winner. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B726: [BETA TEST] "Doomtrain" by Inverted Illuminati; presented by Peter Ciccolo. The legendary Doomtrain has exploded, as post-apocalyptic fortress-trains are known to do. Now its parts and crew are flying through the air as you and your rivals race to lay claim to the corpse of this behemoth and the treasures that lie within it. Doomtrain is a competitive deck / tableau building game for 2 players, in the style of Ascension, Star Realms, or Dominion. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B727: [BETA TEST] "Downforce Expansion" by Restoration Games, LLC; presented by Justin Jacobson. Downforce is a critically acclaimed, card-driven racing game with an auction and betting mechanic in addition to the racing. The base game features a double-sided board with two different tracks and asymmetrical player powers. The expansion offers two new tracks and six new powers for more variety. Shanghai Nights includes splits in the track and roundabouts that allow cars in the rear to block cars in the lead. Cliffs of Downforce introduces danger spaces, which allow cars to pass others, but you can't end your movement there. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B728: [BETA TEST] "Dragon's In Love" by Gontza Games; presented by Ann Stolinsky. The dragon is awake again! The villagers are frightened, and prepare to defeat him. But this time, he's not looking for places to burn, or humans to eat; he's searching for his mate. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B729: [BETA TEST] "Draught Draft/Flowerpot" presented by Zintis May-Krumins. Two short games from Zintis May-Krumins: Draught Draft is a quick card drafting game where the players take the role of bar owners, keeping their bars stocked to attract customers, and advertising to create new customers. Featuring multi-use cards and a 4 round pass-draft. Flower Pot is a quick card drafting/tableau building game where players take the role of flower shop owners fulfilling bouquet orders for clients. Pick up, stack, and re-order clear cards so the right flower colors are visible in your vases. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B730: [BETA TEST] "DRIVE-IN!" by Tabletop Tiki; presented by Daniel Kitchen. In this turn-based game, collect Ticket and Action Cards and battle for the best spots to park your cars on a game board reminiscent of a retro-style 1950's Drive-In Movie Theater. Download the free companion app (NOT required) to any smart phone or tablet device and magically transform the game board into a miniature Drive-In Theater complete with 15 classic 1950's sci-fi Movie Trailers. Collect Movie Cards to park during your favorite B Movies Trailers to earn bonus points. During intermissions you'll have a change to visit our delicious Snack Bar and earn extra points in a confection themed dice battle mini game. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Serious, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B731: [BETA TEST] "Everyone's a Suspect" presented by Kristin Firth. It's a small town and somebody has been murdered. Everyone is a suspect. Including everyone at this table. *Especially* everyone at this table. This is a card-based mystery game, in the tradition of storytelling games (like Once Upon a Time). Taking turns, we will tell the story of a group of characters in a murder victim's life and how the murder affects them. The murderer will be determined at the end of the game. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B732: [BETA TEST] "Human Sacrifice" by Aggressively Playable Games; presented by Noah Anderson. You are a member of the Community of United Local Townsfolk. Help your fellow CULTists prepare for the coming of the Dark One in the light, fun card game where death isn't an obstacle, reading from the book is a given, and evil always wins. A competitive/cooperative card game. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B733: [BETA TEST] "Id, Ego, Eye" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Adam Fischer. You're under attack! Shield your mind, build up its strength, and choose whether to fight back using your Id, Ego, Third Eye, or some combination of all of them. Play with one of our prebuilt decks of cards or advance to creating your own. Experience the fast and furious tug-of-war as players fight to keep from losing their minds! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B734: [BETA TEST] "No Holds Bard" by Cloven Pine Games; presented by Alexi Sargeant. A Shakespearean fighting game. Hamstring as Hamlet, beatdown as Beatrice, or pursue as the Bear! Over twenty different Shakespearean characters brawl for victory in a last-character-standing melee. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B735: [BETA TEST] "Orphanage of Fear" by Slightly Offensive Games; presented by Thomas Hornemann. Abandoned and unwanted with the dust bowl blotting out the sun and all hope, children have begun to disappear. Boogeymen have descended on the Shining Hope Orphanage, and are feeding on the children there. Using what few possessions they have, the remaining children must attempt to ferret out who among them have been replaced by dark fey before it is too late. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 16 seats left.
[FILLED] B736: [BETA TEST] "Party Fowl" by Hebanon Games; presented by Spencer Harris. An area-control, modular-board card game designed for a party atmosphere. In the game, players assume the role of students at Duck U. It's the week before finals, and these ducks need to party! But partying is a delicate art, where the leader of the flock can quickly turn into a real lame duck. If you can navigate the social rapids, it only takes one great night to become big duck on campus. In Party Fowl, you move your duck around the house and start conversations that make you the life of the party. Just watch out for those basic hens and duck bois looking to sabotage your fun! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B737: [BETA TEST] "Russian Rocket Roulette" by Vanishing City Games; presented by John Dermody. Can you make it to space, and race to the stars? Or will your efforts catastrophically explode?! Only you and your competition can tell. Take a spin on this space race themed game! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 8 seats left.
B738: [BETA TEST] "Salt" by Unpossible Game Labs; presented by Orion McClelland. A medium weight 4x game set in an alternate reality Wild West world. In Salt, you will be exploring the land, mining for resources, gathering, collecting, and skirmishing with other players. You play one of five different gangs pushing in on a newly discovered land to be the gang that has acquired the most salt. Salt uses few resources and a card driven mechanic making it easier for new players to enjoy this normally complex genre. Several paths to victory and asymmetric abilities and upgrades provide longevity and replay. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B739: [BETA TEST] "Slack Jack" by Split Brain Games; presented by Joel Colombo. A series of treasures have been discovered on Pirate Island. The captain needs to put together search parties to find and claim the loot... but they need to be careful, some members of the crew are only in it for themselves and would happily lie and convince the captain to take them along... only to steal the loot from the whole party and leave the others with nothing. In Slack Jack players receive a hidden pirate card that gives them some value on their shipmates. Hidden in the midst of the ships crew are Slack Jack and Slack Jane... the liars that will say anything the captain wants to hear to weasel their way onto the right team. Who's lying? Who has a hidden agenda? Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 9 seats left.
B740: [BETA TEST] "Space Runners" presented by Robin Liu. A press your luck adventure card game. Each player selects a hero and tries to run through each location, encountering creatures and traps on the way, while he/she tries to lockdown the location for extra points. Space Runners can be played cooperatively or against each other in teams or free for all. A quick and fun game that is simple to pick up and play with family and friends. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B741: [BETA TEST] "The Pirate's Lost Booty" by Red Knight Card Games; presented by Mathew Rutan. Have you ever wanted to be a rich and famous pirate? Well Shiver me timbers, this is your chance. A hurricane has forced a pirate ship to run aground on a deserted island. Now it's treasure and valuable equipment are scattered across the island. So Heave Ho and claim all you can...but beware, because they set traps to stop all you Landlubbers from taking The Pirate's Lost Booty. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B742: [BETA TEST] "The Stars May Swallow Us" by Tekkactus Games; presented by Jeff Gum. A modular hidden-role card game. Trapped on a broken down spacecraft with failing life support, players need to race against the clock to repair their engine before their air supply runs out, while also defending against attacks from the saboteur who caused this mess to begin with. If you've ever thought Werewolf could use some card counting deduction, or if Love Letter needed more accusatory pointing, this might be the testing session for you! Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 8 seats left.
B743: [BETA TEST] "XCENDANCY" presented by Rocco Privatera. A competitive sci-fi themed very lite 4x style game. Players take turns playing single action turns to build up their empire's tableau to gain various resources, explore for new systems, build upgrades and research tech, deal with events, and compete against other players to become a full empire first. Gameplay is fast and elegant, and reminiscent of Machi Koro and Splendor, while still scratching the 4x itch. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B744: [BETA TEST] "You've Been Poisoned 2" by Gameworthy Labs; presented by Tim Blank. A 10-minute, escape-style game that's played with an elaborate set-up on a tabletop. You've been poisoned in the Laboratory of the evil Dr. Mortimer Thornblood. Lucky for you, he's left clues around that will help you figure out where the antidote is. Find it within 10 minutes and get out with your life! But be careful - take too long and the poison will take hold, or pick the wrong one and you'll drink a catalyst that will kill you instantly! Looking for players who are fans of short puzzles and familiar with the concept of escape-style games. The game requires light physical activity (lifting up things, opening up boxes, etc.), quick puzzle solving skills, and the ability to play under pressure; is played standing up and typically requires some moving around, too. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B745: [BETA TEST] "Zeno" by Mind Bullet Games; presented by Brian Engelstein. A quick-playing, casual, deck-building game. Players flip cards from a personal deck in an attempt to have the second highest total at the table. Cards are then drafted to improve the decks and the next round begins. This game is perfect for players of all ages and experience levels. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B747: [BETA TEST] "Night Falls" by The Game Theater LLC; presented by Evan Michaels, Christopher Batarlis. Will you survive when Night Falls? Vampires, and those who hunt them, clash in the night. Use your cunning, wit, and charm to forge alliances, make enemies, and thrive under the cover of darkness. Join us and we will build your team to compete in a massive, interactive board game experience. The game supports a multitude of teams simultaneously for a one-of-a-kind competition that blends elements of role-play gaming, team-building, and war game/tactical decision making. Do not let the terms 'MegaGame' or 'Role Play' scare you off. You'll make decisions for your team that result in a thrilling conclusion! The rules are simple, easy to learn, and will be taught in 15 minutes. Saturday, 10:00PM - 12:00AM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 24 seats left.
B763: [BETA TEST] "Nocturnes" by Branum Games; presented by Tiffany Branum. In this tile-based game, you are all research subjects trapped in a nightmarish dream state, trying to stay sane. As the nightmare expands, you will begin to lose your sanity. Travel across the nightmare tiles and use cards from your hand to impact game play. Try holding onto your sanity as long as possible because the last person with any left is the only one who wakes up psychologically intact! Saturday, 12:00AM - 2:00AM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B764: [BETA TEST] "Ace Tabula" by SE2OND; presented by Adam Ciffone. A 2-4 player card game. Players primarly rely on concentration, attention, and memory in order to win. Ace Tabula is for all ages but is geared to an older, more serious audience. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. [NDA REQUIRED] This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B765: [BETA TEST] "Alphabirds" by 9th Level Games; presented by Heather Wilson. Making words with the help of birds! Alphabirds is word building card game featuring famous bird authors to offer you help when you get stuck. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
[FILLED] B766: [BETA TEST] "Clear the Decks!
" by Crispy Games Company; presented by Christopher Pinyan. A cooperative card game for 1-4 players depicting naval warfare during the age of sail. Players each command 3 cannon and use a variety of ammunition, tactics and officers to destroy the enemy ship structures, guns and crew. Can you and your shipmates work together to sink the enemy before all of your cannon are destroyed? Its time to prepare for action and Clear the Decks! Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B767: [BETA TEST] "Dodgy Dungeons" by Critical-Hits Studios LLC; presented by David Chalker. Adventurers wanted... even ones as greedy and inept as you. Your hirelings run around the Keep on your behalf, preparing you to confront monsters in some chaotic caves. You then defeat monsters for profit, doing your best to find treasure as you wield silly magic items and walk away with the biggest coin purse. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B768: [BETA TEST] "Dollars to Donuts" by Flatout Games; presented by Shawn Stankewich. A puzzle-y spatial tile-laying and resource management game. Players race to fill their player boards and create the most delicious spread by matching donut halves (for cash or glory). With variable player-generated setup, each new game is an exciting new competitive puzzle. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B769: [BETA TEST] "Duchy" by Multinational Games LLC; presented by Jason Costa. Build a castle, control farms, and take land from your enemies. As duke or duchess, you begin with only a keep, an indestructible structure from which you will grow your dukedom. Claim new territory by building villages, armories, stables, walls, and towers. Clear forests and plow farm fields, but beware: your enemies will attempt to control those farms and plunder their output. As you grow more powerful, amass armies of soldiers and siege engines, and lay waste to the fortresses of your rivals. Duchy is played entirely with cards, which are arranged into a grid to form a dynamic board. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B770: [BETA TEST] "Gizmos" presented by Randall Buck. Control a powerful association of sentient machines as it explores a new world, competes for raw materials, and evolves. Players will use a simple tile laying mechanism to determine the powers and abilities of each piece, or gizmo, that they bring into play. Every tile also contributes to the growing terrain as well as to a novel resource generation system, giving players control over every aspect of the game board as it develops. Victory is achieved by gathering and cleverly managing resources. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B771: [BETA TEST] "Good Dog, Bad Zombie" by Make Big Things; presented by Hannah Shaffer. A cooperative game where Homeward Bound meets The Walking Dead. Together, you and your doggo pack will have to rescue enough hoomans in a crumbling metropolis and bring them back to the home you're building in Central Bark. Can you save enough people before you go feral and you forget what it means to feel the love of a hooman? Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B772: [BETA TEST] Event Canceled. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
[FILLED] B773: [BETA TEST] "Lords of Shadowtree" by Grim Fantasy Games; presented by Conner Cole. An adventure strategy board game. Players take on the role of a Lord seeking to either establish their kingdom first or slay all other players for domination. However, monsters roam near and far, wreaking havoc upon all in their way. Foes might be forced band together to survive, only to then backstab each other, or align for mutual victory. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B774: [BETA TEST] "Magnificent Movie Moguls" by Vanishing City Games; presented by John Dermody. You are a movie producer in the "Golden Age of Cinema". You are competing with other studios in the acquisition of resources (Leading Ladies, Directors, etc.), soliciting money, paying off critics for good reviews among other things to produce Westerns, Comedies, Musicals and Mystery/Thrillers. By doing so you hope to gain enough prestige and money to create your "Epic" movie before any other studio. Beware, other players are trying to do so as well. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 5 seats left.
B775: [BETA TEST] "Meeple Party" by 9th Level Games; presented by Heather O'Neill. Tonight you are throwing a party with your roommates! Will it go down in history as the BEST PARTY EVER?! In this cooperative strategy board game you take advantage of photo opportunities to keep the party cranking while trying to avoid disasters that could end the party! Once there are 3 disasters it's 3 strikes you're out! Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B776: [BETA TEST] "Miner Rings" presented by Charlie Hoopes. A pick-up-and-deliver game where players can move the destinations. You are captain of a freighter making deliveries between space stations orbiting a ringed planet. Earn the best reputation by hauling the most cargo and colonists between space stations. Sometimes it is best to fly your rocket to a space station, others it will be more efficient to move the space station to your rocket. While using fuel will get you there quicker, your supply is limited, so choose wisely when to burn and when to conserve. In this game, everyone shares the same dice rolls, so you can't blame how you roll. Miner Rings is an evolution of Planet Chasers, a finalist in the 2016 Cardboard Edison prototype of the year award. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B777: [BETA TEST] "Panda Craves Danger" by Devious Devices, LLC; presented by Anthony Rando. You and your fellow pandas have grown tired of bamboo and are craving something more exciting. The trouble is, you have a hard time telling what's food and what's not. In this dice-throwing push-your-luck game, throw caution to the wind and eat whatever you can to gain the most Prestige. But be careful: the world is full of dangerous things, and you may end up biting off more than you can chew! Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B778: [BETA TEST] "Philanthropy" by Cardboard Edison; presented by Chris Zinsli, Suzanne Zinsli. In this light game of money management, you'll play a wealthy supporter of charitable causes looking to give away your fortunes. But if you can be clever with how you give out your money, you'll be recognized as the most charitable of your peers. And after all, isn't that what charity is all about? Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B779: [ALPHA TEST] "Phoenix Rising" by Gontza Games; presented by Ann Stolinsky. Gontza Games' designer, Ann Stolinsky, is stuck on the mechanics for a game she's calling Phoenix Rising. Please help her sort it out. She's not designed a deck building game before. The game is based around the mythical phoenix, and its resurrection from the ashes. Thanks. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B780: [BETA TEST] "Pinball Showdown: Wizard Mode Expansion" by Shoot Again Games; presented by Diane Sauer, Nick Sauer. Players are the pinball steering into a wide array of playfield devices while trying to score combinations, activate Wizard Mode and become the highest scoring pinball. To do this they must maintain a critical balance between speed and control. Go too slow and it will limit what you can score and put you at risk for draining, but go too fast and you may lose control! May the best pinball win! Experience pinball from the pinball's point of view. Score playfield devices, collide with other pinballs and score those sweet combos for bonuses. It's not as easy as it looks! Note - We are testing new devices, new combos and five player rules for the Wizard Mode expansion. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
[FILLED] B781: [BETA TEST] "Please Drive-Thru" by Split Brain Games; presented by Joel Colombo. Can you build a chain of fast food restaurants that meets the changing demands of customers on the busiest boulevard in town. Over a series of 3 dinner rush drive-thru phases, players will use simultaneous hidden action selection to manipulate their restaurants supplies, locations, inventory, and even influence customer demands. After 2-4 actions are taken, the customers drive thru and buy up as much of your supplies as they desire. The game uses a deep thinking strategy of measuring supply and demand and spacial positioning to make you the wealthiest Fast Food Drive-Thru empire in town. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 0 seats left.
B782: [BETA TEST] "Race 2 Place" presented by Zachary Huff. You are a horse whisperer, down on your luck and looking for a big score. In an effort to stay under the radar, you have quietly bet everything that you own that your chosen horse will place in the next race. Unfortunately, several other horse whisperers have chosen the same race with similar plans. Even worse, the race track has gotten wind of a rise in horse whispering and will investigate anyone who's horse crosses the finish line first. Manage your hand with grace, keep an eye on the pace, and maybe your horse will win the Race 2 Place! Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B783: [ALPHA TEST] "Rise of Shadow Moon" by Cap & Beard; presented by Nicholas Favia. Once every 103 years, a dark moon rises into the night sky, the Shadow Moon. It brings the darkness out of the corners of your room and The Shadow Lady's minions begin to seep in. Take on the role of children's toys and fight off hordes of shadows, keep them off the bed to keep the child safe! Can you protect the child from The Shadow Lady? Or will their spirit be dragged off to The Shadowlands only to be consumed? Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B784: [BETA TEST] "Savage Strikers" presented by Henry-Michael Brown. The Deck Building Fighting Game! Take on your opponent in a one on one street fight and be the first to knock them out in a best of 3 match. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B785: [BETA TEST] "Smirk & Dagger Smash Lab" by Smirk & Dagger Games; presented by Curt Covert. Four good games that need to be great. Break em and build them to new heights. Rescue dogs at a shelter and find them the perfect home / Bluff the biggest Fish Tale ever / Robbery gone very, very bad. And more. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B786: [BETA TEST] "Space Farm" presented by Travis Magrum. Mine for interplanetary resources to sell for profit or improve your mining operation in this competitive engine- and deck-builder. Getting useful cards back out of your deck is as important as gaining them in the first place. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B787: [BETA TEST] "Speculate" by Snowman Games; presented by Mike Schuller. Can you manage your resources in different stock market sectors to collect more fame and fortune than your opponents? This new trick taking game lets you manage your assets as different assets will be valued differently as the game progresses. Play testers will be asked to provide feedback on several rule variants as well as comment on the game. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
[FILLED] B788: [BETA TEST] "Steepseers" by KinSoul Studio; presented by Jordan Mathews. You, a Steepseer, with the ability to foresee prophetic events by brewing tea and manipulating its Steam, are vanishing from a world of fading Belief. Collect your tea ingredients by rolling dice, fill your teapots, remember their contents, and pour delicious brews in order to collect powerful vision cards and restore the people's Belief in you. After 12 rounds, the Steepseer with the most Belief is regarded as the Savior of all Steepseers. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B789: [BETA TEST] "Team Evl" by Infinite Lives, LLC; presented by Ethan Weber. A UN-cooperative game of wit, deception, and deduction. Join team evl to cure boredom, and release evil back into the world. CAUTION: As you play, evil whispers destroy your once noble thoughts. You will seek the ruin of your friends and to rule the world through the absolute power of evil. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B790: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B791: [ALPHA TEST] "Towering Flight" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Kiva Fecteau. There's nothing dragons like more than to spend a lazy morning catching a thermal and flying as high as they can. But even in their leisure activities, dragons are known to be somewhat competitive. "Towering Flight" is one game being developed for possible inclusion in a set that will use a common tarot-size deck of dragon cards. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B792: [BETA TEST] "Village Pillage" by Jellybean Games; presented by Peter Hayward. It's another beautiful day in the village! Your farms are making money, your walls are strong and true, and your army is a ragtag band of loveable underdogs. Everything would be perfect if it wasn't for those HORRIBLE OTHER VILLAGES! Ugh, you hate them so much! In this fast-paced simultaneous action game, be the first to build a monument to celebrate your village's obvious superiority over your stupid neighbors, who are just the worst. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B793: [BETA TEST] "Wizarding Trials" by Paw-Warrior Games; presented by Josh Paugh, Ben Krieger. Get ready for the ultimate wizard showdown as players face off in a series of magical trials to put your skills to the test. Each player will be fighting for superiority in the various magical categories by using their action cards to raise their skills, hinder their opponents, or throw a little chaos into the mix. This light-strategy game includes elements of a take-that style game and will keep you guessing about your opponents' strategies as each trial gets closer to completion. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B794: [BETA TEST] "You've Been Poisoned 2" by Gameworthy Labs; presented by Tim Blank. A 10-minute, escape-style game that's played with an elaborate set-up on a tabletop. You've been poisoned in the Laboratory of the evil Dr. Mortimer Thornblood. Lucky for you, he's left clues around that will help you figure out where the antidote is. Find it within 10 minutes and get out with your life! But be careful - take too long and the poison will take hold, or pick the wrong one and you'll drink a catalyst that will kill you instantly! Looking for players who are fans of short puzzles and familiar with the concept of escape-style games. The game requires light physical activity (lifting up things, opening up boxes, etc.), quick puzzle solving skills, and the ability to play under pressure; is played standing up and typically requires some moving around, too. Sunday, 10:00AM - 12:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B813: [BETA TEST] "Capodecina" presented by Jessie Yaternick. A gangster card game where players try to build themselves a crew to successfully pull off heists. You can choose to work with other players to complete the crew and share the rewards of a job. You can help other players out of jail or the hospital but you also have the choice to rat them out, shoot them, or steal their crew members. The first player to obtain enough reputation becomes the new "Boss" and wins. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B814: [BETA TEST] "Cards of Impact: Choose Your Destiny" by CBR Solutions; presented by Grant Peirce. Engage. Choose. Win by growing from strength to strength. Impact your relationships! This character-based card game will challenge your assumptions about your instincts and values. You will know yourself and your fellow players in new and intriguing ways. Successful players will seize their destiny! This game uses reality-based Challenge, Choice, and Character cards. Players choose from variations of the game based on age, skill level, time, competitive/collaborative modes, and what is most fun for them! Created by Susanne - a relationship coach, Grant - a psychometrician, and Johann - a financial analyst. The world is a crazy place, so we decided to create a reality-based card game to help us survive, connect, and thrive. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B815: [ALPHA TEST] "Chronicle of Kings" by Pendelhaven; presented by Andrew Valkauskas. Set during the Viking age in the Fate of the Norns universe. Players take on a dynasty of Viking rulers who wish to be immortalized in legend. Each turn spans several years, meaning that the bloodline will need to plan for marriage and children. Victory is achieved by being the bloodline with the most renown, and the game rewards players for memorable play. There are many ways to achieve renown, allowing players to pursue different paths to victory (ie. quests, military conquests, trade/raid, diplomatic intrigue, etc.). Rather than a mundane actions, players initiate scenes filled with drama, conflict and tension. All of the memories are created and situated upon a world map. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B816: [BETA TEST] "Cinder Spires Privateers" by Brooklyn Indie Games; presented by Tim Rodriguez. A pick-up-and-deliver deckbuilding game that puts you in command of a privateering ship. Manage your hand well to fulfill contracts and deliver commodities to bolster your reputation. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B817: [BETA TEST] "Cube of Death" by Studio187; presented by Peter Bryant. a trivia card game that incorporates role playing mechanics. Adventures can be run with simplistic characters using trivia questions to resolve conflicts, dice to deliver damage, and magic items to enhance the dynamic. Last person with hits wins. There is also a trick taking version for simplistic fast play. This game is 90% finished and is going to Kickstarter in mid-February. The designer is looking for one final round of play testing to try out the final revisions from the previous play tests. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B818: [BETA TEST] "Drive Fighter" presented by Phillip Steinberg. A two-player action card game. Players take on the role of a tactician and control a faction of creatures with the goal of defeating their opponent's General. The game features several different mechanics that make card Manipulation have a tangible and a visual effect. The game features a mechanic that allows players to climb back from the jaws of defeat through clever resource usage. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B819: [BETA TEST] "DRIVE-IN!" by Tabletop Tiki; presented by Daniel Kitchen. In this turn-based game, collect Ticket and Action Cards and battle for the best spots to park your cars on a game board reminiscent of a retro-style 1950's Drive-In Movie Theater. Download the free companion app (NOT required) to any smart phone or tablet device and magically transform the game board into a miniature Drive-In Theater complete with 15 classic 1950's sci-fi Movie Trailers. Collect Movie Cards to park during your favorite B Movies Trailers to earn bonus points. During intermissions you'll have a change to visit our delicious Snack Bar and earn extra points in a confection themed dice battle mini game. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Serious, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B820: [BETA TEST] "Duchy" by Multinational Games LLC; presented by Jason Costa. Build a castle, control farms, and take land from your enemies. As duke or duchess, you begin with only a keep, an indestructible structure from which you will grow your dukedom. Claim new territory by building villages, armories, stables, walls, and towers. Clear forests and plow farm fields, but beware: your enemies will attempt to control those farms and plunder their output. As you grow more powerful, amass armies of soldiers and siege engines, and lay waste to the fortresses of your rivals. Duchy is played entirely with cards, which are arranged into a grid to form a dynamic board. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
[FILLED] B821: [BETA TEST] "Earthforge" by KinSoul Studio; presented by Jordan Mathews. A fast-paced, competitive, arena-brawler for 2 to 4 players. Taking control of powerful Valkyries from around the world, players will use their unique powers to battle their way through other champions and fearsome beasts in order to take control of the legendary Earthforge. Using its vast power, a Valkyrie may reshape the world in their image. Will you seize victory from your foes, or will you cower in their shadow? Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B822: [ALPHA TEST] "Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar" by Restoration Games, LLC; presented by Justin Jacobson. The original game of kinetic mayhem came out in 1986. This restored version features fully revamped play with some light programming, hand management, take that, and press-your-luck. Players race around the island, gathering (or stealing) treasures, all the while dodging a host of hazards but mostly FIREBALLS. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B823: [BETA TEST] "Gladius" presented by Victoria Cana. A betting game about guts, glory, and gambling! Over the course of five rounds, players bet on teams of gladiators and play influence cards to alter the outcome of each event. Your goal is to make sure you're on the winning end by any means necessary. Can you outwit your opponents to profit off of the gladiatorial games, or will you be left empty-handed? Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B824: [BETA TEST] "Herding Cats" by Geoffquest; presented by Geoff Bottone. It's adoption day at the Cat Rescue Center! Push your cat carrier around the back room and do the best you can to collect cats for your patrons. Don't worry! Everyone's getting adopted! Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B825: [BETA TEST] "Mamma Maxie's Midway" presented by David Joria. A light Worker Placement Board Game - You are a booth owner at Mamma Maxie's Midway, looking to expand your corner of the carnival. Will you focus on flash or substance? Will you give the rubes a family-friendly experience, or cheat them out of every last penny? Can you rake in enough tickets to inherit the key to the midway? Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B826: [BETA TEST] "Mill City" presented by Eric Alvarado. Players are responsible for ordering flour from flour mills and shipping it via boxcars to distribution centers. In order to process flour, the flour mills convert the water power of the St. Anthonys Falls into the mechanical power needed to mill grain into flour. Once production is completed, the flour is loaded into boxcars and shipped to distribution centers. The player who can successfully balance production and shipping based on the available water power and shipping capacity, and invest in the rising flour mills will win the game. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B827: [BETA TEST] "Please Drive-Thru" by Split Brain Games; presented by Joel Colombo. Can you build a chain of fast food restaurants that meets the changing demands of customers on the busiest boulevard in town. Over a series of 3 dinner rush drive-thru phases, players will use simultaneous hidden action selection to manipulate their restaurants supplies, locations, inventory, and even influence customer demands. After 2-4 actions are taken, the customers drive thru and buy up as much of your supplies as they desire. The game uses a deep thinking strategy of measuring supply and demand and spacial positioning to make you the wealthiest Fast Food Drive-Thru empire in town. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B828: [BETA TEST] "Taking Stock" by Spare the Rod Games; presented by Rod Currie. Taking Stock is a trick-taking stock market manipulation game. In this game, you will play cards to both manipulate stock prices and try to win tricks which will give you shares of those stocks. More shares in stocks with higher prices earn you more money. The most money wins. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B829: [BETA TEST] "Tank Robbers!" by Cardboard Fortress Games; presented by Anthony Amato, Nicole Kline. Play as a rogue Tank crew in the last days of the war, hellbent on fame, fortune, and the ill-gotten loot hidden away in city of Bankensberg. Use a light programming system of cards to move, heal, and blow up other tanks. Maneuver through buildings for cover, or just crush them under treads to find hidden power-ups! Blast your enemies and steal their gold as you race to the be the first to gain victory in this light tabletop combat game. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B830: [BETA TEST] "The Dungeon Dome Card Game" presented by James D'Amato, Kat Kuhl. Based on the ONE SHOT Network's Dungeon Dome actual play series, this game pits players against one another in fast-paced strategy-driven battles. In seconds players create their own team of fighters to bring into the arena to fight for glory. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B831: "Top Secret From Essen" by Stronghold Games. Stronghold Games, a leading publisher in the hobby game industry, is just back from the Spiel in Essen Germany! We have brought with us many games that we need to evaluate for possible publication in North America. Stronghold Games also has a number of prototypes from designers that are under consideration for publication. We can't tell you any of the game names now, and in fact we will ask that you do not tell anyone of the names of these games after you play them, since this needs to be kept confidential. If you would like to play a part potentially in a future publication of a game from Stronghold Games, join us for this slot! Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B832: [BETA TEST] "Vanilla" presented by Chris Anderson. The production of vanilla is a very delicate process. The plants must be pollinated by hand, carefully harvested, and cured. At any point in the process mistakes can lower the quality of your harvest. Vanilla is an economic, farming euro. Each player starts with a small vanilla plantation. Use the profits from your harvest to expand your plantation and upgrade your equipment. Should you take it slow and make the highest quality vanilla? Or rush to produce a large harvest of lower quality? Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 2 seats left.
B833: [BETA TEST] "Wizards With Bazookas" by Outboard; presented by John Atwood. A fast, high-energy, rowdy, rules-light, slugfest card game for two players in a new genre we call a "real-time deck-builder." Your wizard has spells to cast and a bazooka to fire, so take aim at your opponent along their wizard line and let all hell break loose. You'll begin with a fixed deck then find upgrades as you wander the battlefield. As the frenzy of the battle escalates, your abilities will become fine-tuned and explosive. You are, of course, sagacious, but to win this fight you'll have to be good with a gun as well. Speed and dexterity must be wedded with strategy and instinct in order to make it out alive. Have faith and give it your best shot! Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B834: [BETA TEST] "XCENDANCY" presented by Rocco Privatera. A competitive sci-fi themed very lite 4x style game. Players take turns playing single action turns to build up their empire's tableau to gain various resources, explore for new systems, build upgrades and research tech, deal with events, and compete against other players to become a full empire first. Gameplay is fast and elegant, and reminiscent of Machi Koro and Splendor, while still scratching the 4x itch. Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B835: [BETA TEST] "YouRateDogs" by Silverback Press; presented by Darren Watts. A fun, relatively light family card game for 3-6 players, licensed from and based on the popular WeRateDogs Twitter account, with adorable dog pictures and hilarious commentary from WeRateDogs creator Matt Nelson! Players draft dogs into their kennels, and then put them up for competition based on their "stats" like Floof, Sass, and Ears. Remember, they're all good dogs, Brent, so everybody's stats are at least 10/10 and go up from there (except for the dreaded Your Dog Is Actually A Baby Hippo In Disguise card!). Sunday, 12:00PM - 2:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B854: [BETA TEST] "Animus" by Zero Budget Geek; presented by Eriberto Rodriguez. A small, two-player card game inspired by fighting video games and turn-based monster combat RPGs. The game has players drafting a team of 9 unique characters from a spanning multiverse to compete while leading their team with one of 6 Entity cards. Every game will have a completely new roster! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B855: [BETA TEST] "Cards of Impact: Choose Your Destiny" by CBR Solutions; presented by Grant Peirce. Engage. Choose. Win by growing from strength to strength. Impact your relationships! This character-based card game will challenge your assumptions about your instincts and values. You will know yourself and your fellow players in new and intriguing ways. Successful players will seize their destiny! This game uses reality-based Challenge, Choice, and Character cards. Players choose from variations of the game based on age, skill level, time, competitive/collaborative modes, and what is most fun for them! Created by Susanne - a relationship coach, Grant - a psychometrician, and Johann - a financial analyst. The world is a crazy place, so we decided to create a reality-based card game to help us survive, connect, and thrive. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B856: [BETA TEST] "Cartrigia" by Wandering Hearth Games; presented by Bill Lasek. A retro tile based light dungeon crawler with the feel of classic RPGs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, and Zelda. Players control a group of 1 to 6 asymetrical heroes while they explore the dungeon, battle classic monsters, gain valuable items, and if they're good enough - and can stay alive long enough - defeat the Dungeon Lord. Features multiple difficulty levels from easy to epic - no two games the same! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B857: [BETA TEST] "Dodge This" by Aggressively Playable Games; presented by Noah Anderson. It's all fun and games until someone gets slammed in the face. The neighborhood kids are all ready for knockdown, drag out brawl with rubber serving as their artillery. Draft your team, and command them to Dodgeball Glory! Dodge This is a competitive drafting/squad strategy game for two players. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B858: [BETA TEST] "Gladius" presented by Victoria Cana. A betting game about guts, glory, and gambling! Over the course of five rounds, players bet on teams of gladiators and play influence cards to alter the outcome of each event. Your goal is to make sure you're on the winning end by any means necessary. Can you outwit your opponents to profit off of the gladiatorial games, or will you be left empty-handed? Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B859: [BETA TEST] "Gobbins" presented by Zintis May-Krumins. The valley goblins have never been a smart bunch. They eat mushrooms, poke each other with sticks, and covet the shiny rocks found underground. The big hill in the valley has more shiny rocks than ever seen before, and you want them all! Take the role of a goblin chief in this light 4x game of exploring, gathering, building, upgrading, and fighting against the other goblin tribes! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B860: [BETA TEST] "Heroball" by Mind Bullet Games; presented by Geoffrey Engelstein. What do superheroes do in their spare time? Play Heroball! Heroball is a simple, fast, and fun two-player game that brings the classic vibrating electric football game to a modern audience. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B861: [BETA TEST] "It Figures" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Kiva Fecteau. A game system that resembles Boggle, but for math, and with the flexibility to let you play the way you want to. Roll dice into a grid or a circle, add extra rules or challenges to each round, or play the set collection variant where you have to include or exclude specific elements. Only unique equations allow you to score. This game can make you math differently every time you play it! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B862: [ALPHA TEST] "Loot & Plunder" by Shadowsong Industries; presented by Adam Fischer. Being the captain of a space pirate fleet is great, as long as you and the other captain in your sector can scavenge enough loot to keep the Pirate King happy. Work together to send off enough full ships while looting and plundering your opponent, because if the cargo you personally provide isn't the most valuable, off with your head! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B863: [BETA TEST] "Obelisk" by SE2OND; presented by Adam Ciffone. The chess of blocks. Obelisk is a high-end, custom two player board game where players must construct their blocks three dimensionally before their opponent does. Similar to its companion product, Aporia, a player's ability to strategize future moves is at hand. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. [NDA REQUIRED] There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B864: [BETA TEST] "ORDS" by EverTech Products; presented by Felix Cruz. Galactic Strategy and Tactical Board/Card Game. Win the game by eliminating all opponents and becoming Emperor/Empress of the Milky Way Galaxy. Includes a short version of play to allow a winner within a couple of hours. Players move their token pieces around the board by spaceships, weapon cards, Star Systems (Star cards), and win Yeps (monies), etc. Players will transport, at a cost, spaceships into different Galactic Quadrants to challenge opponents to battle to control Galactic Quadrants, conquer Star Systems (Star cards), destroy opponents' spaceships, and win Quadrant prizes. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B865: [BETA TEST] "QuestFour" presented by Robert Brown. Place one of your pieces, then turn any tile. It seems simple to win, just get four of your pieces in a row. But is it that simple? Players must think in multiple dimensions while adapting to an ever changing playing field. Just when you think you've won, your opponent can take it away with the twist of a board. QuestFour is a 4D spatial strategy game where players use their pieces in multiple dimensions while adapting to a dynamic playing field. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B866: [BETA TEST] "Rampaging Jotunn: Winter War 4-Player Expansion" by Lost Cog Games; presented by Matthias Bonnici. Return to the unnamed island in this exciting 4 player expansion to Rampaging Jotunn! This massive expansion includes complete with new land types, new land boards that further expand the borders of the unnamed island. There are 2 new armies, new rules for 2, 3 and 4 players, armor, weapons, new cards, new powers, and new components that expand the Rampaging Jotunn Saga... and did we mention the 2nd Jotunn? Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B867: [ALPHA TEST] "Resource Cubes" presented by Anthony Fiumano. In this Unique Deck Builder style game you are gaining cubes that you use as different types of resources to buy more cubes, Fight off Monsters, Create Building for yourself or Activate those buildings on your turn. But by the end of the game you are trying to be the person with the most Victory Points (VP). Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B868: [BETA TEST] "Russian Rocket Roulette" by Vanishing City Games; presented by John Dermody. Can you make it to space, and race to the stars? Or will your efforts catastrophically explode?! Only you and your competition can tell. Take a spin on this space race themed game! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 8 seats left.
B869: [BETA TEST] "Splatterbomb" presented by Henry-Michael Brown. The run and shoot board game! Score the highest points by moving around the Stage while spraying the field and knocking your opponent's out for more advance sprays. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B870: [BETA TEST] "The Lion & The Eagle" by Arbor Games; presented by Jerry Wang. A World War II hybrid Euro/wargaming experience in which players relive some of the great strategic dilemmas that defined the contest between Albion's Lion and the Eagle of the Third Reich. Taking over in High Command, players will use their decks and the game board to plan their strategies, appoint Commanders and enact Policies, fight battles at sea and in the skies, and ultimately, achieve victory for their side. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B871: [BETA TEST] "The Stars May Swallow Us" by Tekkactus Games; presented by Jeff Gum. A modular hidden-role card game. Trapped on a broken down spacecraft with failing life support, players need to race against the clock to repair their engine before their air supply runs out, while also defending against attacks from the saboteur who caused this mess to begin with. If you've ever thought Werewolf could use some card counting deduction, or if Love Letter needed more accusatory pointing, this might be the testing session for you! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 6 seats left.
B872: [BETA TEST] "The Vulture Club" presented by Noah Arjomand. In this card game spoof on international journalism, you play a freelance reporter trying to make a name for yourself in a war zone and outmaneuver your competitors. Travel from cities to the front lines to meet contacts and gather story elements (or steal and barter your way to breaking news scoops), then use the deck you have built to create narratives that wow newsreaders back home. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, 18 & Over ONLY. There are 4 seats left.
B873: [BETA TEST] "VerboCity" presented by Jonathan Gilmour, Travis Magrum. Players are spelling words to put tiles into their city. The bigger the word you spell, the more tiles you can move into your city. Compete to build the best city! Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
B874: [BETA TEST] "WBW: World Beats Wrestling" by Single Helix Studios; presented by Noah Cohen. A rhythm based card game? Don't overthink, bid to the beat! WBW: World Beats Wrestling puts a new spin on blind bidding games by adding rhythm. Players start with cards numbered 1-8 in their hands, then put on a song and take turns playing cards face down onto any of four piles while keeping up with the beat. Because each player bids face down, you can see where people are putting their cards, but not where they're putting their value. Keeping up with the beat dishes up a delightful dollop of disorder, disrupts your plans and doles out laughs. Win a pile by having the highest sum once everyone’s cards are down to improve your reputation and win fans. Race to build your fan base so the league will let you win bigger matches and become the face of the WBW. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B875: [BETA TEST] "Wind Sabers" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. Turn-based, turn-based (not a typo) card combat with a spin. Twist. Kick. Punch. Players control a pair of Disciples, who tag team together to beat their opponent's duo using all manner of card-rotating maneuvers. Combat is direction-based, and maneuvers turn your characters' cards, so you must strategically chain your attacks together. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 4 seats left.
B876: [ALPHA TEST] "Writer's Room" presented by John Adamus. A card game where players compete against one another to try and develop the best storyline for a fictional TV pilot, using everything from Protagonists to Plot Twists in an effort to be the first Writer to successfully accomplish their goal. Sunday, 3:00PM - 5:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B884: [BETA TEST] "Aporia" by SE2OND; presented by Adam Ciffone. A high-end, custom two-player board game where players must outmaneuver each other using limited space and resources. Similar to its companion product, Obelisk, advanced "two or three move ahead" analytical strategy is put to the test during game play. Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Serious, 18 & Over ONLY. [NDA REQUIRED] There are 2 seats left.
B885: [BETA TEST] "Arcana Magi Academy" presented by Henry-Michael Brown. The shufflebuilding combat game! As Sensei, choose 2 sets of School Club cards and 1 set of Campus cards, then shuffle them into your deck and get ready for the annual school event...Battlerun! Be the first to score 10 Victory Points to win! Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
[FILLED] B886: [BETA TEST] "Florafiora" by Zephyr Workshop; presented by Breeze Grigas. An artistic co-operative exploration game where players manage little beings called Seedizens, and send them to far-off planets to colonize and connect together while being assaulted by a relentless winter. Different races of Seedizens interact differently with the various planets, and players must work together to discover their universe and return home safely. Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B887: [BETA TEST] "Glory Hounds" by Slightly Offensive Games; presented by Thomas Hornemann. Congratulations, your plan has succeeded and the Generalismo is dead! Now to eliminate your co-conspirators and become the new Generalismo. But what's this? The peasants have broken out in revolt to throw off your oppressive yolk? That cannot stand! Take the on the role of a general in a banana republic suppressing a democratic revolution. Throw your troops into the meatgrinder of war, and more importantly, gain glory from their sacrifices and the sacrifices of those of your soon to be erstwhile allies while denying them the glory and notoriety of claiming victory. Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 5 seats left.
B888: [BETA TEST] "Hero: Tales of the Tomes" presented by Jimmy Ellerth. A multiplayer card game in which each of the players takes the role of a legendary hero and battles it out until only one is left standing. All players play off of one shared deck together, so no prior deck building or collecting is required. The gameplay is fast and exciting. With all the potential for twists and comebacks, you'll never truly feel out of the game. Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
B889: [BETA TEST] "ORDS" by EverTech Products; presented by Felix Cruz. Galactic Strategy and Tactical Board/Card Game. Win the game by eliminating all opponents and becoming Emperor/Empress of the Milky Way Galaxy. Includes a short version of play to allow a winner within a couple of hours. Players move their token pieces around the board by spaceships, weapon cards, Star Systems (Star cards), and win Yeps (monies), etc. Players will transport, at a cost, spaceships into different Galactic Quadrants to challenge opponents to battle to control Galactic Quadrants, conquer Star Systems (Star cards), destroy opponents' spaceships, and win Quadrant prizes. Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
[FILLED] B890: [BETA TEST] "Quantum Quest" by Black Furnace Games; presented by Michael DeAngelo. A dungeon crawler card game that pits you against your friends in a game that never plays the same way twice. Players put together teams of adventurers and travel through the dungeon, encountering chambers that will hurt you unless you capture them. You can only capture chambers if you have enough mana, and an adventurer that matches the room’s class type. Once you own the chambers, you decide how they harm your opponents when they land there. Claim victory if you are the only survivor! Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 0 seats left.
B891: [BETA TEST] "Space Runners" presented by Robin Liu. A press your luck adventure card game. Each player selects a hero and tries to run through each location, encountering creatures and traps on the way, while he/she tries to lockdown the location for extra points. Space Runners can be played cooperatively or against each other in teams or free for all. A quick and fun game that is simple to pick up and play with family and friends. Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. ***ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT!***
[FILLED] B892: [BETA TEST] "The Art of Mutiny" by The Art of Mutiny; presented by Benjamin Bral. A funny, pirate-themed bidding game, where you play as a disgruntled pirate on a pirate ship. You hate the captain, and you think you could be a much better captain than he is, but you need other crew members to agree with you. You therefore bribe other crew members (cards) into joining your side. Whoever convinces 8 crew members to join his/her side wins! Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Silly, All Ages. This is a HI-TEST session. There are 0 seats left.
B893: [BETA TEST] "Vinyl" presented by Eric Alvarado. Players are aspiring vinyl collectors. They have a glimpse of knowledge of what they would like to collect, but immediately get immersed into the experience. Players will acquire morsels of information after visiting the "Mag Rack". That information will lead them to the bins where they select albums to add and expand their collection. Albums can be played at the listening booth to future increase the value of a player's collection and their ability to collect even more albums. Unfortunately, the inventory is limited and other customers may be after the same vinyl gems. After the final round is concluded, players will tally their collection’s value and determine who is the Elite Vinyl Collector! Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 3 seats left.
B894: [BETA TEST] "Zeno" by Mind Bullet Games; presented by Geoffrey Engelstein. A quick-playing, casual, deck-building game. Players flip cards from a personal deck in an attempt to have the second highest total at the table. Cards are then drafted to improve the decks and the next round begins. This game is perfect for players of all ages and experience levels. Sunday, 5:00PM - 7:00PM; Fun, All Ages. There are 2 seats left.
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