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Videos from Spielwarenmesse 2015 VIII: The Big Book of Madness, Sapiens, Pingo Pingo, Kenjin, Master Fox, Welcome to the Dungeon and Tales & Games: The Grasshopper & The Ant

Videos from Spielwarenmesse 2015 VIII: The Big Book of Madness, Sapiens, Pingo Pingo, Kenjin, Master Fox, Welcome to the Dungeon and Tales & Games: The Grasshopper & The Ant
From gallery of W Eric Martin
Yes, I have still more game demonstration videos to post from Spielwarenmesse 2015, lots more. I meant to jam all of these out in the two weeks between that show at NY Toy Fair 2015, but things happened (as they do), followed by eight snow days in two weeks here in the unable-to-cope Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina. Finally, I'm somewhat back to being able to do stuff, starting with...

The Big Book of Madness from Maxime Rambourg appears to be IELLO's big title of 2015, with this deck-building game confronting the young apprentice wizards with all sorts of nasty things that they need to return to the book from which they came. Matthieu Bonin from IELLO had a rough version of the game on hand in Nürnberg, Germany, which allowed him to give us an overview of the gameplay.





Board Game: Kenjin
• Nicolas Sato's Kenjin is one of (at least) two titles coming in 2015 from Superlude Éditions, with IELLO providing distribution and support for this bluffing card game.





Board Game: Master Fox
• IELLO's Bonin gave me an early look at Frédéric Vuagnat's Master Fox — Maître Renard in French — at Gen Con 2014, and the game has nice chunky wooden components to accompany the fox masks included in the box. You'll be pleased to know that I cut myself singing Ylvis' "What Does The Fox Say?" from the end of this demo video. You're welcome.





Board Game: Sapiens
• Sapiens is the first release from Cyrille Leroy and his Catch Up Games, with IELLO once again providing publishing guidance and distribution for this newcomer. Sapiens debuted at the Festival International des Jeux in Cannes at the end of February 2015, so this video now serves as a postview for those who tried the game at the fair but a preview for the rest of you.





Board Game: Tales & Games: The Grasshopper & the Ant
• Purple Brain Creations is a frequent co-publication partner with IELLO, and in early 2015 it will release Tales & Games: The Grasshopper & the Ant from ant specialist Yoann Levet, this being the fourth title in PBC's Tales & Games series.





Board Game: Welcome to the Dungeon
• Masato Uesugi's Dungeon of Mandom debuted from Japanese publisher Oink Games in 2013, and while the title seems a tad off, it also relays the nature of the gameplay, with players essentially boasting about how little equipment they'll need to enter a dungeon, despite them knowing little about what might actually be waiting for them inside. For its release of Welcome to the Dungeon, IELLO has boosted the number of characters in the game from one to four, with each character having a different set of equipment for you to forgo in your manly boasting.





Board Game: Pingo Pingo
• Pingo Pingo has you running away from bear-riding penguins and consulting monkey sorcerers, and once you discover the game is from Roberto Fraga, it all makes so much more sense. Pingo Pingo is a remake of Squad Seven and possibly should be merged with that game listing, but I know that people have previously objected to penguins showing up in unexpected places...

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