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• The U.S. retailer Marbles: The Brain Store is hosting a game design contest with a deadline of March 16, 2012. Here's an excerpt from the contest guidelines:
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1) Design a game with the following criteria in mind:
• brain beneficial
• takes seconds to learn, years to master
• enjoyable for all ages
• unique
• of heirloom quality
• and of course – fun!
Oh, is that all? The winner receives $2,000 in exchange for the rights to the game design.• brain beneficial
• takes seconds to learn, years to master
• enjoyable for all ages
• unique
• of heirloom quality
• and of course – fun!
• Popular Science magazine highlights "[n]early 100 years of questionable games in the pages of PopSci" in a photo gallery titled "Board Games Weren't Always Fun". (HT: Dale Yu)
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2011 was another really good year. That's five in a row. We were profitable in 2011, on the highest gross ever: just over $4.5 million, a million-dollar increase over 2010! Reasons:
• We kept our core Munchkin sets in print almost all the time, despite high (and sometimes spiking) sales.
• We released two new Munchkin core sets, and both were popular.
• Sales of the new dice games stayed strong, accounting for about 5% of total sales. Zombie Dice was our #4 item ranked by dollars.
• We continued to offer RPG support, mostly in PDF form.
We shipped 54 different items (one more than last year): 26 new, 28 reprints.
The Munchkin line, including the Munchkin Quest boardgame, accounted for about 75% of our sales. Munchkin is now available in 15 languages, with one more licensed.
• We kept our core Munchkin sets in print almost all the time, despite high (and sometimes spiking) sales.
• We released two new Munchkin core sets, and both were popular.
• Sales of the new dice games stayed strong, accounting for about 5% of total sales. Zombie Dice was our #4 item ranked by dollars.
• We continued to offer RPG support, mostly in PDF form.
We shipped 54 different items (one more than last year): 26 new, 28 reprints.
The Munchkin line, including the Munchkin Quest boardgame, accounted for about 75% of our sales. Munchkin is now available in 15 languages, with one more licensed.
• Monopoly: World of Warcraft and Risk: StarCraft are both due out later in 2012 from USAopoly and Blizzard Entertainment.
• Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner called Magic: The Gathering "...the largest game brand in the U.S.", as noted on ICv2, with revenue of more than $200 million in 2011, more than double the amount earned from items related to the seminal collectible card game in 2008.
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