THE GAMES JOURNAL - Österreichisches Spiele Museum

This organization o�ered an opportunity
to show prototypes to some designers:
Luc Toledano showed Le Cinéphile and
L’Interpret, both for 2-4 players, ages 12+,
and with the same game mechanism,
once for the topic of �lms and once on
the topic of foreign languages; you move
through di�erent areas on the board and
must score four points in each of the areas.
Gilles Chomel had brought along Arkantis,
a placement game with objective cards
for 2-4 players, ages 8+; you place pieces
on the board to imitate shapes which are
meant to represent the remains of architectural
structures of a destroyed city. A second
prototype of this designer is Pépéroni
Pizza, a simple tactic game for 2-4 players
in which you must cleverly distribute your
peppers. Jean-Marc Radigois showed PluX,
a card game for use in mental training, and
Christophe Villard showed Empilade Color,
a building and stacking game. Alain Duverger
presented Footgoal, you must hit
the goal, and together with co-designer he
presented Fleur de Miel, you take leaves o�
oxeyes in order to get honey.
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Mattel
In Cannes, too, Angry Birds Knock on
Wood was shown, from Handy App to
board game: 2-4 players, ages 5+, want to
push the opposing pigs o� the wooden
towers. But the most spectacular feature
was the new company logo, currently for
France only.
Mattika
Three educational games on numbers and
mathematical operations as well as on vocabulary
and grammar, all by Thomas Tesser
and Somprasong Sudaros:
MathSumo, cards state the result, the position
of the markers determines the factors
of the multiplication. Addigolo is a card
game, you want to collect most cards with
red numbers. Verbilico features the conjugation
of verbs, depending on the age of
players with indicative forms in di�erent
times, or with other forms of verbs, e.g. subjunctive,
too.
Moonster
Games
The company is represented in the German
speaking countries by Asmodee; Fame Us
was one of the games nominated for As
d’Or. In this game by Christophe Hermier
you hold cards with characteristics and
can play one characteristic on the table in
a turn – you should have a corresponding
personality in mind – or you can draw a card
or you can challenge the previous player. He
now must name someone who �ts with all
the characteristics on the table; then players
vote if the answer is acceptable.
OUR REPORT
My Witty Games
The company had shown Witty Pong as
a �nished product last year and this year
presented an attractive selection of games
that are �nanced and produced in analogy
to the kickstarter principle. Two of the
games that were presented last year as a
project are now produced: Witty Chronos
by Guillaume Aubrun, 3-8 players want to
score 100 points as fast as they can with two
sand timers placed on point cards; if you are
alone on a card with your timer when the
timer runs out you receive the card. Witty
Chronos Temple as an expansion with 25
new gods has been announced. Witty Zibi
by Jean Michel Urien for 4-9 players, ages
8+, is a card game on monkeys and banan-
as, you play in teams but do not know the
other members of your team and you play
one card per turn to hand out penalty bananas
to other players.
Four games are in the project stage:
Metropolitrain Le Jeu de Metro is a game
on subways for 3-5 players, ages 8+, by
François Marquay; you have a train and
10 passengers and must execute a secret
objective by playing cards; you decide the
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