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GUO NIAN – new year card game –

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Welcome.  The Chinese new year 2016 is the Fire Monkey year. There are soo many traditions related to this festival – red clothes and firecrackers among many. There is an old story about a Monster called Nian that came every new year and killed villagers. One village discovered that the monster was afraid of the color red and loud noises. To celebrate this I made a card game for 2-8 players you may print and play with you friends or family. 

 

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PLAY THE CARD GAME

Here are the game files to print and play for free. You will need 3 dice and some player tokens:.

https://goo.gl/M1Hvqu

 

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Meet the artist behind Glassworks, the third expansion for Kings Forge. Character designer and illustrator Denis Martynets

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Glassworks – the third expansion for Kings Forge, look really great. Glassworks is designed by Nick Sibicky and illustrated by the Ukrainian artist Denis Martynets . Following the style of the original game, illustrated by Jonathan Kirtz – which also can be found on Table Topia. Denis is from Kiev and kindly agreed to share his story with us.

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Great news on our microgame Fool of the Feast.

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Participating in contests on BGG. can be very fun indeed. There is much learnings to make by entering simple contests.. and for me it was suprisingly hard to get the final art done before entry deadline. Fool of the Feast entered so late in the contest I was afraid it would go unseen by fellow designers on BGG.

 

But with great happiness we can announce Fools of the Feast was among the 18 Finalists.

 

So to those who do not know about our little micro game this is it:

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The King is holding a great banquet and demands the kingdom’s best entertainment possible. Therefore he has invited all Troubadours and Fools around to audition their best show. The winner will become Fool of the Feast and well rewarded.

 

players: 2-4
time: 10 min
age: 10+

 

Summary
With only three played cards in a game round – this game is easy. But with split cards and effects there is a more complex strategy to explore. The goal is to become the king’s fool – so basically everyone wins. The second time a players show gets the king’s favour – that player is the winner. A show consist of three rounds. The entertainer presentation, a fist act and a second act. The show with the most points total wins the king’s favor that round. The crown icons on a card is points you will score for act. So more crowns means a better act. This will be modified by what themes the king like and don’t like. So if the king laughs at your rivals “juggling monk” – you might need to mess that show up.
FILES FOR PLAY

Full size cards A4.
https://goo.gl/dgbiYn
Full size rules A4.
https://goo.gl/FWxCG2

Full size cards (for US letter / A4)
https://goo.gl/xsmJi9

 

ARTWORK

 

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A short ROUGH introduction

 

A peek under the coat – An unveiling interview with Mr. Cuddington

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When we recently awarded a golden hook to the Great Dinosaur Rush by Ape games I really loved the art. Its a great dust digging color scheme and cute characters that capture the Archeology and Palaeontology feeling in it’s essence. Actually we see the game is released on TableTopia – the online board game platform we recently made a special label for. The artist behind Bone Wars (which some call it) is Mr. Cuddington – that is one cool name that made me curious. GreenHookGames are happy to serve you this interview with Mr. Cuddington. Its a peek under the coat that, as some may know, reveals not one but two persons!

 

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1st place for “original artwork” in the Children’s game design contest

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Our latest PnP “That’s Life – A Fishy Tale” for the Children’s game design contest 2015 won in two categories. It won 1st place for “original artwork” and 3rd place in the main awards.

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Chaotic process with stunning results – Interview with Xavier aka Naïade

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I just love artwork in games. Maybe it is because those artworks rarely stand alone. Maybe its because they tell a story or maybe I just like how they are framed with icons and text. It is not art that should only be viewed or read – it must be captivating and follow the flow of play. I am not sure why I love game art in specific – but I am sure that one of my favourite board game artists must be Xavier from Nantes, France. Also goes by the name Naïade. Enjoy our interview with him.

 

Could you tell us a little about how you became an artist?:

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We are now official publisher on Tabletopia

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But we haven’t just added any game yet. I was so lucky to have a mac crash twice when trying to play Viticulture with a kind group. It seemed like it was the TT unity app that made it happen. I got it working on Safari (I still hate chrome for letting Unity down – I rather use chrome or FF than Safari).

Now when it is in beta we are trying to see how to set up games best. And I think I am going to start with Thats Life – A Fishy Tale, that we entered for the contest on BGG.

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4 Great looking games at Essen Spiel

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What a fantastic place to go – Essen Spiel 15! I was only able to attend two days but it was well worth it. There was waaay too many beautiful and genius designed games at the fair, to actually choose only the 4 best looking games. I won’t get into which games where the best played – you can see that many other places. I personally had fun with last years Colt Express which got an expansion, a Taiwanese game called Ponzi Scheme, the Korean game H.I.D.E., and 7Wonders DUEL (which also looked insanely good!). My Danish colleagues was receiving a lot of attention on the games Among Nobles and Fog of Love.

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Okay okay – let’s see the games I want to praise for their looks…

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