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Videos from Gen Con 2014: Tasty Minstrel – AquaSphere, Scoville, Captains of Industry, Bomb Squad & Dungeon Roll: Winter Heroes Pack

Videos from Gen Con 2014: Tasty Minstrel – AquaSphere, Scoville, Captains of Industry, Bomb Squad & Dungeon Roll: Winter Heroes Pack
Board Game: AquaSphere
• I'm still cranking through the game demonstration videos that we livestreamed during Gen Con 2014, and this batch contains only half of the titles that Tasty Minstrel Games demonstrated during its time in the BGG booth. Crazy.

The title likely to be of most interest from TMG — and the one most to suffer from the shortened demonstration time that comes from running through eleven games in one hour — is Stefan Feld's AquaSphere, so for a detailed overview of the gameplay, I'll point to my write-up of the game following a playtest session at Origins 2014.





Board Game: Scoville
• Ed Marriott's Scoville was on the TMG demo table at BGG.CON 2013, and an advance production copy featuring the multi-level peppers in all their colorful glory was likewise on the TMG demo table during Gen Con 2014.





Board Game: Dungeon Roll: Winter Heroes Pack
• Dungeon Roll: Winter Heroes Pack adds sixteen new items — twelve treasures and four heroes — to Chris Darden's dice game success Dungeon Roll.





Board Game: Captains of Industry
• An advance production copy of Michael R. Keller's Captains of Industry showed up just prior to Gen Con 2014, so TMG developer Seth Jaffee got to show it off.





Board Game: Bomb Squad
• Bomb Squad co-designers Dan Keltner and David Short squeezed into the BGG booth with Jaffee to talk about their real-time co-op game of hostage-rescuing and bomb-defusing. Think timed Hanabi with a smidge of RoboRally, and you're most of the way toward an understanding of the game.

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