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• In February 2020, Plaid Hat Games separated from Asmodee to become independent once again, and PHG's Colby Dauch was in Reno to show off the first game following that separation: Forgotten Waters from Mr. Bistro, J. Arthur Ellis, and Isaac Vega.
• Looney Labs was running a Kickstarter campaign for the four titles included in its "Pyramid Quartet" line — Martian Chess, Homeworlds, Nomids, and Ice Duo — and while that crowdfunding campaign is now over, the games themselves are due out in retail stores in the second half of 2020 (assuming that shipping lines are working, stores are open, etc.).
• Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive from Chris O'Neal, Johnny O'Neal, and Brotherwise Games is a standalone game based on the novels of Brandon Sanderson that can be combined with the earlier game Call the Adventure. We still need a final cover for this character-building game, but we had promotional artwork from the publisher and I want to get these videos out sooner than later, so here we are...
• OmenQuest from Isaac Bluefoot of Dragonflower Ink is not a game, but rather a storytelling device of sorts, a communication tool with several game-like activities associated with it. This video was one of the final things we recorded on Thursday before packing up, and Issac and Candice were having a ball riffing off one another as they ran through the different ways to play.
• Tomas Uhlir's Under Falling Skies was originally released as a print-and-play game in 2019, but Czech Games Edition has now picked up the design and redeveloped it for release in the latter half of 2020. Here's how the game works:
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