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FunForge
Dominant at the booth was still The Big
Idea, and then there was �rst information
available on two new games: Still in the
early stages of development is Tokaido by
Antoine Bauza on the topic of the road between
Kyoto and Tokyo. WIN! is a game on
duels between personalities; who is the better
babysitter, Genghis Khan or Conan The
Barbarian? An entirely new line of games
is FunForge Digital, there were Episode
1 of Isla Doarada and Inventorium, which
graphically reminds one of Innovation, a development
in cooperation with ePawn.
George & Monica
Bloumels
Not a new game but something for connoisseurs
and for a�cionados of beautiful rarities, unfortunately
not cheap, but on the contrary rather
expensive, but extremely beautiful: Scrabble
boards and scrabble tiles made from leather, the
tiles stick to the board magnetically, the collector’s
items can be ordered in colors of your choice!
Gigamic
In addition to the novelties that were presented
in Nuremberg there were announcements
for a number of French editions of
games from companies outside France:
Bazar Bizarre (Geistesblitz, Zoch, Jacques
Zeimet), Story Cubes Voyages (The Cre-
ativity Hub, Rory O‘Connor), Quistiti (Coco
Schnipp, Amigo, Manfred and Wolfgang
Ludwig), Mito (Mogelmotto, Drei Magier,
Emely and Lukas Brand) and Descendance
(Village, eggertspiele/Pegasus, Inka und
Markus Brand).
Grosso Modo
A party game on suspects and interrogations,
by Arnaud and Alexandre Pierru and
Guillaume Goujon: Police Party for 2-6
players, ages 10+; man bet on the answers
that will be given by the opponents, the
questions posed touch topics like TV series,
Secret Service, unusual facts, forensic techniques,
interrogation techniques and astonishing
stories. All players are police men,
none of them wants to be the corrupt one.
Distributor: Paille Éditions.
Id&al
Editions
The focus was on Burdigala, including a
show collage on the creation of the game,
but there was a preview on the next game,
too, Haru Ichiban by Bruno Cathala, a game
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ISSUE 434 / FEBRUARY 2012
OUR REPORT
on Zen Buddhism and Japanese garden; it
exists already for iPad and iPhone and will
now be published as a board game.
Iello
In addition to games from other publishers
which Iello will publish in France - Mil 1049,
Dungeon Fighter, Innovation und Nightfall
– the company presented two novelties:
Joomba! by Roberto Fraga is a reaction
game for 2-8 players, ages 6+; cards show
ten animals, one kind is present once, one
twice, one three times and the last one 4
times; one card is drawn and you must imitate
the animal that is present on the card as
often as equals the number on the top card
of the draw pile. Konito by Richard Champion
is a creativity game for 2-12 players, ages
8+; you can play in teams or on your own. To
advance on the board that can be adapted
to a playing time of your choice you must
complete statements on the cards within a
given time limit.
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