![BGG.CON 2015: Game Previews — Gale Force Nine's Star Trek, Pixel Tactics Deluxe, Far Space Foundry, Pack O Game, The Grizzled, and The Next Great American Game](https://cf.geekdo-images.com/ppikDMYVElG2LmsT_HtMNw__thumb/img/zLA3bGdvCKLlZg2PkkIfy3c8a6k=/fit-in/200x150/filters:strip_icc()/pic2569587.png)
• If you run across a two-player fighting card game with cutesy anime-style artwork, there's a good chance you're looking at a release from Level 99 Games, as with owner/designer Brad Talton's Pixel Tactics Deluxe, which was previewed at BGG.CON 2015.
• Dan Manfredini's Far Space Foundry from Terra Nova Games is a two-part mining operation in space: get the raw materials, then process them. Maybe you'll sell the finished goods in a expansion...
• This video doesn't tell you much about the actual games in Chris Handy's Pack O Game line-up from his own Perplext, but it does show them off and Handy describes each title in a couple of words should you care to further investigate any of these microsized microgames.
• Fabien Riffaud and Juan Rodriguez's The Grizzled from Sweet November debuted to great acclaim in France in early 2015, then found an equally appreciative audience at Gen Con 2015 when Cool Mini Or Not released the game in English. In case the game is new to you, here's a two-minute overview:
• Finally, BGG News correspondent Phoebe Wild speaks with Douglas Morse about his documentary The Next Great American Game, which focuses mostly on aspiring game designer Randall Hoyt and his initial title Turnpike.
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My thanks to Phoebe Wild and Beth Heile for speaking with dozens of designers and publishers at BGG.CON 2015 while I traveled to Tokyo Game Market, which took place at the same time. We have one more BGG.CON post to come — the second half of Mary Prasad's travelogue/convention report — then I'll finally start sharing what I saw, did and played in Tokyo...