x
search
menu

Game Previews from Spielwarenmesse 2016: The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game, Broom Service: The Card Game, Legends, Make 'n' Break Architect & Memory: Das Brettspiel

Game Previews from Spielwarenmesse 2016: The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game, Broom Service: The Card Game, Legends, Make 'n' Break Architect & Memory: Das Brettspiel
Board Game: The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game
This past weekend I took a trip to Spielwarenmesse 2016, the annual toy fair in Nürnberg, Germany, and I've already uploaded a dozen game overview videos to BGG's YouTube account. Woohoo! Much faster progress than for Spiel 2015 and other recent conventions, partly because I'm not posting all of the videos that we've recorded on BGG News, but instead simply on the individual game pages (and on YouTube itself, of course).

That said, I will highlight some of these videos when I expect interest in the featured game to be higher than average or when I think people will get a kick out of the video itself. We'll see whether I'm right. (Also, I must apologize in advance for forgetting to white balance these videos. Perhaps someday I'll function like a professional in this regard, but I haven't made that leap yet in five years. Sigh.)

• Let's start with an overview of Stefan Feld's The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game, one of two "board game to card game" transfigurations to take place from German publisher alea. My ever-increasing smile in this video comes from me thinking than Alban is about to wrap up, but then we keep plowing on with yet more that you can do on your turn. The half-sized cards in this game make a lot of sense as you'll be sprawling all over the table with your holdings!





Board Game: Broom Service: The Card Game
• The other alea title that we covered was Broom Service: The Card Game from Andreas Pelikan and Alexander Pfister, which unlike TCOB:TCG adheres much less closely to the preceding board game. Only a few finished cards were on display — and none of the expansion material for the board game — but I think this will give you an idea of the "brave vs. cowardly" mechanism taking place in this design.





Board Game: Legends
• I received information from Ravensburger not too long before my flight, so I've entered many of that publisher's titles into BGG's Nürnberg/New York 2016 Preview only since returning to the U.S., including the family game Legends from Knut Happel and Christian Fiore. This design features a time track movement system a là Thebes and challenges players to collect knowledge of legendary events to earn points, while also requiring them to give up some of that knowledge if they actually want to score those points.





Board Game: Make 'n' Break
• The Make 'n' Break game series takes a familiar concept — do something quickly to complete a challenge — and presents it in all sorts of different ways, with the 2016 offering from Ravensburger being Make 'n' Break Architect, with players now wielding a colored folding ruler and trying to shape to match the images provided.





Board Game: Memory
• Memory: Das Brettspiel? By Kramer and Kiesling?! At first I wondered whether I was being punked, but after seeing the thing itself, the design and brand extension makes perfect sense, and the choices made here provide an interesting lesson for game designers.

Related

New Releases from F2Z Entertainment: Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu from Z-Man, Dead of Winter: The Long Night from Plaid Hat, Junk Art from Pretzel & More

New Releases from F2Z Entertainment: Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu from Z-Man, Dead of Winter: The Long Night from Plaid Hat, Junk Art from Pretzel & More

Feb 01, 2016

• The biggest news for hobby gamers from Spielwarenmesse 2016 is the soft announcement of Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu from designer Chuck D. Yager and publisher Z-Man Games.Sophie Gravel of F2Z...
Links: Selling Yourself to Gamers and Publishers, and Knowing When to Kill a Game Design

Links: Selling Yourself to Gamers and Publishers, and Knowing When to Kill a Game Design

Jan 30, 2016

• On his Hyperbole! blog, designer Grant Rodiek suggests how game designers can sell themselves — and by extension their games — at conventions:Quote:When I play my games with people at a...
New Game Round-up: Escape a Dying Solar System, Create Weapons for the Third Reich, and Discover Animals in Taiwan

New Game Round-up: Escape a Dying Solar System, Create Weapons for the Third Reich, and Discover Animals in Taiwan

Jan 29, 2016

• Believe it or not, I have still more overlooked (by me) new game announcements that have been nestled in my inbox for months — typically due to me sending myself a link, then having those...
Game Pics from Spielwarenmesse 2016

Game Pics from Spielwarenmesse 2016

Jan 28, 2016

My cameraperson John and I have been at Spielwarenmesse 2016 — the annual toy fair in Nürnberg, Germany — only one full day (and two hours of a second day), and we've already recorded a few...
Links: Asmodee and Z-Man Redistribute Distributors, Nature Explores Evolution & Computers Learn Go

Links: Asmodee and Z-Man Redistribute Distributors, Nature Explores Evolution & Computers Learn Go

Jan 27, 2016

• Continuing its acquisitive habits, the Asmodee Group announced on January 27, 2016 that it has purchased Bergsala Enigma, a board game and collectible card game distributor in Scandinavia and...
ads