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SPIEL 2016 XIX: Guilds, IKAN, Creature College, Gobbit Angry Birds, and The Game: Extreme

SPIEL 2016 XIX: Guilds, IKAN, Creature College, Gobbit Angry Birds, and The Game: Extreme
Board Game: The Game: Extreme
• Yes, I have still a few more game overview videos from SPIEL 2016, such as this one in which designer Steffen Benndorf explains The Game: Extreme from Nürnberger-Spielkarten-Verlag. What's more, he talks about his design philosophy in general and how practically every publisher in Germany refused to publish Qwixx.





 
• Setting up interviews at SPIEL 2016 can be an interesting challenge. I didn't have many open slots remaining when Giochi Uniti contacted me about interviewing designer Christian Giove about Guilds, and Giove was arriving by train in the middle of the fair, so in the end I caught pretty much right when he arrived at the show and he had to jump on camera immediately. No rest for the creative!





Board Game Publisher: Morning
• French publisher/distributor Morning (né Morning Players) had a few recently released and upcoming games on display at SPIEL 2016, two of which I actually recorded previews for at Gen Con 2016. Still need to post those, too! Here, though, is an overview of IKAN, in which one player builds a labyrinth while others watch, after which the labyrinth is hidden and players have a limited amount of time to find the items they need, locate the treasure, and slay the monster that awaits...somewhere.





Board Game: Gobbit Angry Birds
• In a world filled with pattern-recognition+slapping games, Gobbit Angry Birds from Morning is another one. I need to do an overview of these types of games at some point as I tend to love them, but other players fit them hit or miss and examining their differences might prove interesting.





Board Game: Creature College
• Orhan Ertughrul's Creature College from his own Happy Otter Games was listed on the SPIEL 2015 Preview as an item being, well, previewed at that show, but I didn't know it would be present at SPIEL 2016. Turns out that I saw Orhan looking friendly and inviting in the HOG booth after I filmed something else nearby, so I took a seat with him to get an overview of this game. Being friendly and inviting will do that for you sometimes!

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