A variety of originals from veteran gamesmith Joel Sparks. Seeking publishers now!
Prototypes and rule books available.
The CATS OF CATTHULHU role-playing game has entertained thousands of players since its initial sold-out run in 2014.
New edition for 2024 includes full-color hardback book and many extras!
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Which delightful frog-person will make the most bike deliveries to the restaurants of Greenbranch?
Harvest Hoppers is Snowbright Studio’s new “cute but cutthroat” board game, delivering heartwarming fun for 2 to 6 players over 30 to 60 minutes. This strategy game with area control components comes with dozens of produce tokens, uniquely configured neighborhood maps, and a heapin’ handful of adorable Hoptop bicycle delivery antics.
Players: 3–6
Category: Board
Ages: 8+
Playtime: 30–60 minutes (10 min per player)
Primary Mechanics: Area majority, set collection
The classic Jack Vance science fiction tale comes to gaming! On Old Tschai, humans struggle to thrive under alien domination. The only way to get wealth is to harvest the gleaming Sequins that grow in the bleak terrain known as the Carabas, but the predatory Dirdir have declared the Carabas their private hunting ground. The prey: You and your fellow treasure-seekers.
Thematic, culturally accurate, yet fast and fun, The Book of the Dead pits players in a race through the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife. Gods and Monsters demand treasures as bribes, but gather too much loot, and the sins on your soul will cost you in the final Weighing of the Heart. Comes with 3D pyramids to hide tomb contents and unique eight-sided dice that emulate the throwing sticks used in Egyptian games.
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Zoom your colorful truck around to all the different places to play! But look out: If you draw the Gotta Go card, you’ll need to stop off at the Round Up or risk a messy Spill!
Designed for small children, Dump Truck Round Up! teaches by metaphor. The need to go empty your dump truck, interrupting play, and the risk of losing multiple turns if you try to keep playing, is a metaphor for toilet training. Children will have fun while experiencing that it is better to take care of a need right away than to risk a mess that will take more time away from their fun!
Last Call: The Undrinking Game is a cooperative experience in thinking about alcohol. Not a 12-step activity, but a deck of realistic options and challenges based on Mr. Joel's own recovery experience. Players build a Life Deck of strategies and habits to get rid of Drink cards, which keep coming around. A player who gets Clean can lend help to others if asked. If everyone is Clean before the cards run out, everyone wins! An educational yet amusing game for anyone who wonders about cutting back on the booze.
Days and countless miles from civilization, on a river no one has ever paddled before. From around the next bend you hear it: The thunder of white water, echoing through the trees. Will you exit your kayaks and scout it out from shore? Send a brave soul forward to test the waves? Or plunge ahead, heedless of danger? Think carefully and decide as a team, for you have many more rapids to navigate with limited time and resources before you can successfully claim a completed FIRST DESCENT.
In this fast-moving drafting game, build an army of Knights and a cadre of Courtiers to claim Estates from your neighbors. Every card can be played three ways, so every turn counts in the shifting balance of power. Don't neglect to contribute flowers to the Queen's Bouquet that determines bonus scoring at the end of the game.
The card-driven Cypher character works as an additional player so any number from 1 to 4 can play.
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THEME IT YOUR WAY: Cats? Robots? Manga? The basic mechanics adapt to any art and theme you desire.
Thoroughly developed and tested, this 52-card deck can be supplemented with a playing mat or player boards for added appeal. Ready for publishing!
GO FEIS! The Cut-Throat Game of Irish Dance
Talented, hard-working, and adorable, the dancers in these four troupes will do anything to win, including playing sabotage cards like Wig Fail or Stage Mixup or even calling down Irish fairy curses on their foes. A surprisingly vicious competition for the most prizes at an important dance contest called a feis ("fesh".)
