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COVID-19 at the Gaming Table VIII: Play at Home Thanks to Czech Games, Helvetiq, Big Potato, and Space Cowboys

COVID-19 at the Gaming Table VIII: Play at Home Thanks to Czech Games, Helvetiq, Big Potato, and Space Cowboys
From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Should you be looking for another party game to play via camera, albeit with one person giving all the clues, UK publisher Big Potato would like to present you with Goat on a Boat, a rhyming- and celebrity-based charades game in which you need to make others guess phrases like "Jessica Biel wrestling an eel". You can download the PDF here.

From gallery of W Eric Martin
• Swiss publisher Helvetiq has released a special COVID-19 branded version of its co-operative game Bandido from designer Martin Nedergaard Andersen. In the original version of the game, you collectively place tunnel cards to try to shut of avenues of escape for a bandit; in this new version, available on PDF and containing fewer cards than the original game, you need to cut off the virus' tunnels of access to other people.

• Czech Games Edition is releasing a new edition of Tomáš Uhlíř's Under Falling Skies in 2020, a game that won several categories in a nine-card nanogame design contest on BGG in its original version, including best overall game.

You can watch an overview of the game in this video that BGG recorded at GAMA Expo 2020, and if you want to try it out for yourself, CGE has posted an updated (yet not final) version of the game on its blog that you can download and play. If you downloaded the game previously, you can focus on the changes made to the game in the final section of that blog post.

Board Game: Under Falling Skies: A 9-Card Print-and-Play Game


Board Game: TIME Stories Revolution: Damien 1958 NT
• Space Cowboys has released downloadable files of TIME Stories Revolution: Damien 1958 NT, a demo scenario by Manuel Rozoy and Vincent Goyat for the second cycle of TIME Stories that won't be used at conventions anytime soon. For those files, along with info on other titles in the TIME Stories Revolution series, head to the Space Cowboys website.

• Catalyst Game Labs is offering a free downloadable novel or anthology set in its BattleTech and Shadowrun universes through its webstore. Use the one-time-per-person, case-sensitive code Catalst-C19 by May 15, 2020.

• In a Yahoo! News article from early April 2020 titled "3D printing enthusiasts join fight against coronavirus", BGG user Oscar Valera (username: Usual21) got a callout in the text and video for printing and distributing "200 face shields to medical professionals across the country". Valera was spotted by a BGG user who recognized several modern hobby games on the shelf behind him during the clip.

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