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Videos from Gen Con 2014: Greenland, Worlds War One, Bravest Warriors, NHL Power Play & The Walking Dead "Don't Look Back" Dice Game

Videos from Gen Con 2014: Greenland, Worlds War One, Bravest Warriors, NHL Power Play & The Walking Dead "Don't Look Back" Dice Game
Board Game: Greenland
• Sometimes you luck out in being able to record a game demonstration that would never have been on your radar if circumstances hadn't fallen in your lap. Such is the case with this video overview of Phil Eklund and Philipp Klarmann's Greenland, which Eklund's Sierra Madre Games plans to release in time for Spiel 2014 should all of the vagaries of production work out in the most favorable manner.

Geof Gambill of The Long View podcast is working with Eklund on clarifying the rulebook prior to the game going to print, and as such he just happened to receive a production test copy just prior to Gen Con 2014, and he just happened to ask me a couple of days before the show whether I'd be interested in checking it out, and I just happened to show up at the booth where he was demoing games with a microphone and cameraperson to hustle him off to somewhere quieter in order to record this video:




Board Game: Bravest Warriors Co-operative Dice Game
• One of the more established publishers that didn't find a spot on the BGG interview schedule was Cryptozoic Entertainment, but I was able to run down head designer Matt Hyra at the show for an overview of Bravest Warriors Co-operative Dice Game and two other titles. Let's start with the most colorful design of the three:




Board Game: NHL Power Play Team-Building Card Game
• Hyra also presented an overview of the NHL Power Play Team-Building Card Game, which uses Cryptozoic's "Cerberus" deck-building engine in a setting that might surprise regular gamers. That's kind of the goal, of course, as this game is designed to reach out to those who aren't regular gamers — or at least not regular gamers who peruse sites like BGG. Hyra said that Cryptozoic took the NHL game to an off-season training site (if I'm recalling him correctly), and parents initially approached it as if it were poison, but once they experienced their children making shots on goal against them, they started playing more seriously.




Board Game: The Walking Dead "Don't Look Back" Dice Game
• The final game we demoed at the Cryptozoic stand during Gen Con 2014 was Matt Hyra's The Walking Dead "Don't Look Back" Dice Game. (Cryptozoic had more new stuff on offer for the con, such as the Crisis Expansion for the DC Comics DBG, but I think we had to move on to other things. Hard to recall now that a whole ten days have passed. Man, I'm getting old.)




Board Game: Worlds War One
• Designer and self-publisher Nicholas Timinskas finagled his way into the BGG booth at Gen Con 2014 to present a look at his game Worlds War One, which is looking for funding on Kickstarter through September 16, 2014.

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