Now one of those Family Guy titles has been revealed — Family Guy: Stewie's Sexy Party Game from the usual GF9 design team of Kovaleski, Aaron Dill and Sean Sweigart and due out Q4 2015. Here's an overview from the publisher:
Each round, a new player is Stewie, the host of the party. Stewie spins the spinner to determine the theme of the party and draws a party card. Stewie's guests help throw the party by offering word cards to fill in the blanks of the party card. Guests score martinis by collecting sets of Family Guy characters on their word cards; Stewie scores martinis when the guests agree that the completed party card matches the theme. When the booze runs out, the party is over and the player with the most martinis wins!
The gameplay combines pattern recognition, dexterity, and simultaneous action mechanisms. The mime draws a Mask card and imitates the face shown, while the other players try to guess which Monster he is acting out. If a player guessed correctly, he and the mime collect a Mask. The winner is the player who collects the most masks during the game.
• Looney Labs is also repackaging EcoFluxx as Nature Fluxx, with the card art and packaging being updated but the gameplay and components being the same. Nature Fluxx is due out Nov. 6, 2015.
• Finally, Looney Labs has entered a partnership with Penguin Young Readers to create Mad Libs: The Game, the description of which makes me realize that Mad Libs was treading inappropriate waters (depending on the participants) decades before Cards Against Humanity came on the scene: