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Spiel 2012: Interviews from the Messe Floor I – I Am Vlad, La Loire, Desperados, Coup, Luudoo & Cirplexed!

Spiel 2012: Interviews from the Messe Floor I – I Am Vlad, La Loire, Desperados, Coup, Luudoo & Cirplexed!
Board Game: I Am Vlad: Prince of Wallachia
In addition to recording more than two hundred game demos at the BoardGameGeek stand during Spiel 2012, we recorded another forty or so game demos elsewhere during the con, mostly at the booths of publishers. Here's a half-dozen of those videos, with more to come in the days ahead.

First up, I Am Vlad: Prince Of Wallachia from Real Wallachian Games, which is a big, expensive game and probably something you'd want to try before investing in it. (If you're going to be at BGG.CON, check out the one copy we picked up for the BGG Library.)


Board Game: Desperados
Next is Florian Racky's Desperados from German publisher Argentum Verlag, which comes out with one title each year as regular as clockwork.


Board Game: La Loire
Designer Emanuele Ornella had his own booth at Spiel for the first time since 2006 when he was then featuring Hermagor from his Mind the Move publishing house. For 2012 he had one thousand numbered copies of La Loire which he and his wife had had to meticulously arrange in his Hall 7 booth as Ornella had offered buyers the right to preorder a particular number. (Not having a preference for any particular number, I asked for #666 because, well, why not?) When I asked him about the practicality of this idea, he admitted that it was crazy and not one he'll repeat in the future.

Additional thanks to the three folks who had just started playing and who let me butt in to interview Emanuele so that he could demo the game more effectively.


From gallery of W Eric Martin
In addition to the games and the game publishers, Spiel 2012 hosted a few companies that featured subsidiary items like game components. One of those companies was Luudoo, which can insert images into customized versions of Carcassonne, Halali!, and old-time gaming standbys like Backgammon and Mensch ärgere Dich nicht.


Board Game: Coup
Despite appearances to the contrary, Beth Heile was not chained in the BGG stand throughout the entirety of Spiel. She was free to move about, get food, and (naturally) record more game demos in publisher booths. Here she speaks with Rikki Tahta, designer of Coup from new publisher La Mame Games.


Board Game: Cirplexed!
Even with the constant attention on Qwirkle and all things related to it, which is kind of expected when a game wins Spiel des Jahres and sells hundreds of thousands of copies, designer Susan McKinley Ross keeps making other games, with Cirplexed! from MindWare being the latest title to hit print. Bonus contest presented in this video!


And finally, for now, something I'm not sure how to explain...

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