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Videos from Gen Con 2014: IELLO – King of New York, Night of the Grand Octopus, The Hare & The Tortoise, Zombie Kidz & Zombie 15'

Videos from Gen Con 2014: IELLO – King of New York, Night of the Grand Octopus, The Hare & The Tortoise, Zombie Kidz & Zombie 15'
Board Game: King of New York
Has it already been a week since Gen Con 2014 ended? Hard to believe that time is flying so quickly, but Aldie has been working quickly as well, chopping four days of livestreamed game demonstrations into 139(!) videos that I'll be posting on the individual game pages and in this space over the next week or so. Okay, that video count also includes game demos that iOS News Editor Brad Cummings recorded with David Neumann as well as ten that I recorded with John K. Still, that's a lot of videos!

To start, we'll look at one of the most anticipated games of the show: Richard Garfield's King of New York from IELLO. Customs issues kept IELLO from its planned rollout of roughly one hundred copies per day, but a decent number of copies did reach interested parties and plenty of folks played it at the show, including yours truly who posted a written overview on BGG News the morning that Gen Con opened. For those more keen to see the game in action, here's a presentation by IELLO's Matthieu Bonin:




Board Game: Night of the Grand Octopus
• IELLO co-publishes and distributes a few titles in North America from other French-speaking publishers, such as Frédéric Morard's Night of the Grand Octopus from Superlude Éditions. Hmm, one I forgot to check out during Gen Con 2014, but I did get a prelude of another title coming from Superlude and IELLO, so I was still doing my job. News on that title in a future BGGN post...




Board Game: Tales & Games: The Hare & the Tortoise
• Another game that I forgot to look at was The Hare and The Tortoise, Gary Kim's previously self-published take on the hare and tortoise fable that is now part of Purple Brain Creations' "Tales & Games" series, with IELLO releasing this series in English.




Board Game: Zombie Kidz
• Canadian publisher Le Scorpion Masqué is another partner with IELLO, and Annick Lobet's Zombie Kidz — a quick-playing co-operative zombie game — is due out September 2014.




Board Game: Zombie 15'
• IELLO's demoed Guillaume Lémery and Nicolas Schlewitz's Zombie 15' at Gen Con 2013 (with me as the host), and now the game has reached most Kickstarter backers and is headed to stores soon. Matthieu Bonin gives an update on the final components of the game.


While walking the exhibitor hall during Gen Con 2014, I spotted co-designer Nicolas Schlewitz preparing to demo Zombie 15' on the giant 3D table that IELLO constructed for cons — which practically turns this into a dexterity game given how much you need to move while playing!

Board Game Designer: Nicolas Schlewitz

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