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PanicoBloc? From Repos Production? This design — the title and cover of which is not final, as can be seen by the sticker at upper left — comes from the fevered brow of Roberto Fraga, whose mission as a game designer seems to be to create fevered brows on gamers around the world as they try to dance with eggs, balance monks on narrow planks across a river, snag tree trunks with a tooter, or use blocks to build towers while people shoot things at them.
PanicoBloc falls into the same category as those releases, that category being "creator-of-fevered-brows", as everyone must work together in an emergency room to save a patient who's been rushed in for treatment. What do you need to do to save him? Here's a sample of what's involved, posted on YouTube by Fraga himself:
One or more players serve as overseers — emergency room managers, as it were — and they give tasks to the other medical personnel on hand: find a combination of drugs in this batch of cards; figure out the dose you need to administer by consulting this chart; stitch up a wound by "stitching" on a game board with needle and thread. Aagh! We're losing him! Start doing CPR on his chest — i.e., the whoopie cushion — while we figure out how to keep him alive. If the patient hasn't died after twelve minutes, he's made it out of critical condition and can now be tended by more level-headed attendants while you take a break in the lounge. Phew!
This game doesn't have a release date yet, although a session report from a Belgian group that playtested the game mentions a 2015 release date. Oh, and that report includes a pic of the players pedaling "bicycles" to power monitoring equipment after a generator blowout at the hospital. Fun!
"We're losing him, we're losing him! Pedal faster!!"
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