Twice the Mini Fun!
BludlePhoto by TC Petty III. It was a big weekend for the Unpub Network. We have 2 Unpub Minis throughout the area! We played a lot. We laughed a lot. We learned a lot! Saturday's host was Six Feet Under Games in New Holland PA. We had new presenters at the event including Tom Callahan and the gang from Baked Fresh Daily Games. Both of them should be presenting again in West Chester, PA on May 19th. Tom's Co-Op Tower Defense Game hit the game for the first time and the game (and this new designer) are already better for it! He's approaching his product with renewed energy to take into account the feedback he received and develop a better game! Great job Tom! Designers Derrick Vidal and Greg Miller brought the upcoming release by Baked Fresh Daily Games Mecha Mayhem! From all reports the game was a hit. Lots of fun was had with the robots of the game! We'll get you more information soon! Also presenting on Saturday was Stephen Craig. His Staples made a return to the Unpub scene after premiering at Unpub2. He returned with a tighter and better game than he had before. His Unpub2 game left one player exclaiming "Get this game published!" So imagine how good the game is now! TC Petty III caved to pressure and actually found a title for his game, Rock Babies. Thematically unique and huge fun to play, this was the most talked about game of the event. Our first Long Distance Demo game was Titans of Industry, by Brian Lewis. Some players went home to immediately back the game on Kickstarter! We were glad to have such a great game at our event. I'm sending back the prototype here in a few minutes. If you missed your chance to play, don't worry about it. Get in on the campaign and kickstart yourself a copy! Finally, Darrell Louder was the only person on hand at both events. He presented Compounded to a great crowd Saturday, gaining valuable feedback. Then...drove home to Delaware from Pennsylvania made alterations to his game and showed up at Our Game Tableto play some more. In Dover, on Sunday we also had Donald Sauter's Scrabble II, a re-imagining of the classic game with longer more natural words. I've been a fan of his version of Scrabble, thought I'm still not good at it. I'm glad I had a chance to play it yesterday. I also finally had a chance to play Pond Farr by Jesse Catron. His salmon spawning race game uses modular boards and deck building to create a fast moving current of fun. This one was enjoyed by most players. The only negative comment I heard was "I didn't like the game because I don't like fish." We saw the return of Cody Bower and his new streamlined RPG Elves and Goblins. The game saw some rousing play for more than 6 hours! That was spectacular! Flummox, my soon to be published game, hit the table as well. Several plays of this Flummox, coming in 2012 by Clever Mojo Games, proved to me that the recent hiatus was definitely worth it. It's a tighter, faster, better game than it has ever been before! Nearly 60 people participated in this weekend's Unpub Minis. 2 days, 2 states and 16 hours of gaming made for a great Unpub experience! Big thanks to both Our Game Table and Six Feet Under Games for hosting this weekend! Here are some photos from the event. All images courtesy of Stephen Craig!
