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Game Previews from FIJ 2020 III: Dragomino, Oriflamme, Poule Poule, What's Missing, and Welcome to New Las Vegas

Game Previews from FIJ 2020 III: Dragomino, Oriflamme, Poule Poule, What's Missing, and Welcome to New Las Vegas
From gallery of W Eric Martin
To highlight our coverage of the FIJ 2020 game fair in Cannes, France in late February, I've been posting game overview videos semi-regularly on our BGG Express YouTube channel. We have more than forty such videos at this point, with several dozen more still to go, including many for games that lack listings in the BGG database, which is both bad — since someone (probably me) needs to create those listings — and good — since those games will likely be brand new to your eyes and ears.

• Oriflamme, one of two games that new publisher Studio H debuted with at SPIEL '19 (the other being Alubari: A Nice Cup of Tea), won the As d'Or 2020 to be crowned France's game of the year. If you're not familiar with the game already, now you can see what it's all about:





• Dragomino is a successor of sorts to Bruno Cathala's Kingdomino from Blue Orange Games, but with the gameplay scaled for players as young as five.





• I've seen a couple of people say that Poule Poule, a real-time game from Charles Bossart and Oka luda Editions, was their previously unknown pick of the show. Gameplay is reminiscent of Halli Galli-style designs in which you need to keep track of what's been revealed and what's been played that affects the count of what's been revealed.





• Welcome to New Las Vegas from Alexis Allard, Benoit Turpin, and Blue Cocker Games is a step up in difficulty from the original Welcome To..., and at GAMA Expo 2020 Rodney Smith told me that after trying the newer version, he didn't think he'd been going back to the older one.





• What's Missing? is a party game from Florian Sirieix and Ludonaute in which guessers have to determine what's missing from the drawing created by the active player.

I never thought that Ludonaute would release a party game, but we'll have news of an even more surprising party game-publisher combination on BGG News on Thursday, March 19, 2020...

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