CASUAL CROSSOVER What the board game industry can learn from video games PAGE 10 Queen Games’ Kingdom Builder has won the 2012 Spiel des Jahres award – learn how to play and find out how the publisher came to be PAGE 4 The Premier Guide to Casual Board and Card Games Issue #2 - Winter 2013 INSIDER TM CASUAL GAME INSIDER EXCLUSIVES... INFOGRAPHICS How casual games have fared on the popular crowdfunding site PAGE 28
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CASUAL CROSSOVERWhat the board game industry can learn from video games PAGE 10
Queen Games’ Kingdom Builder has won the 2012 Spiel des Jahres award – learn how to play and find out how the publisher came to be PAGE 4
The Premier Guide to Casual Board and Card Games Issue #2 - Winter 2013
Casual GameI N S I D E R
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C A S UA L G A M E I N S I D E R E X C L U S I V E S...
INFOGRAPHICSHow casual games have fared on the popular crowdfunding site PAGE 28
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Video Tutorial
“An absolute winner in our book...it has the same level of excitement every time you play.” - The Toy Man Product Guide
• Parents’ Choice Recommended• The Toy Man eChoice Award
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SPONSORS Please support these great companies !
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Stratus Games is a publisher of high quality casual games since 2009. From the very beginning, they have been committed to excellence in design, components, and game play experience. Each game includes a video tutorial for easy learning and optional rules for incredible replay value. Published games to date include Gold Mine, Launch Pad, Eruption, DiceAFARI, and Off Your Rocker.
StratusGames.com
Looney Labs offers a small line of award-winning fun family games. Our mission is to create fun — but it isn’t just that we make fun games — our games create fun times! Our biggest hit is a little card game with ever changing rules called FLUXX — pick your favorite theme (from Zombies to Monty Python to The Wizard of Oz) and get together with your family and friends around the table for a game of Fluxx today!
LooneyLabs.com/our-games
Fun Q Games was founded by Jeanine and Daniel Calkin to create fun and chal-lenging games which bring families and friends together. They design and manu-facture award-winning original games. Their product line includes: Smash or Trash released in 2009, followed by Triplica in 2010 and Befuzzled in 2011, and are look-ing forward to future projects.
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“Game Salute provides tools and services to make the industry better.” We create awesome games for the whole family. We support stores, members of the gam-ing media, non-profit organizations, and individual gamers. All our efforts are designed to help raise the standards of the entire tabletop games industry.
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Gryphon Games is a publisher of board and card games that provide entertain-ment for the entire family. These engaging casual games encourage multi-age play and adapt well for use in schools, libraries, and social settings. With dozens of titles to choose from, you are sure to find many you will love. Choose Gryphon Games for Fast Family Fun!
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Stronghold Games has released many successful games, including the best-selling casual game Survive: Escape From Atlantis!, the award-winning Confusion: Espionage and Deception in the Cold War, and the thematic deck-building game, Core Worlds with its expansion, Galactic Orders. With the release of both Eurogames and light cas-ual card games, Stronghold Games is now in all segments of the market for all gamers.
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RECOMMENDED GAMES For your casual game shel f or col lect ion
Pub l i shers : wou ld you l ike to see your games rev iewed o r added to th i s l i s t ? P lease send 2 evaluat ion copies to:
Casual Game Revolut ion 7014 E. Gol f L inks Rd. #265 Tucson, AZ 85730
At lant is
Bazaar*
Botswana*
Blockers*
Blokus
Carcassonne
Cast le Panic
Crazy Creatures of Dr. G loom
DiceAFARI
Duck! Duck! Go!
Duck! Duck! Safar i !
Erupt ion
For Sa le
Forbidden Is land
Gold Mine
Hive
Incan Gold
Launch Pad
Li t t le Devi ls
Lost Temple
Octopus’ Garden
Pentago
Pizza Theory*
Quartex*
Rise!
S lapshot
Square Shooters
Surv ive: Escape f rom At lant is !
Ticket to Ride
Tsuro
Two by Two
Zombie Dice
Casual Games
Party GamesApples to Apples
Cranium
Last Word
Off Your Rocker
Smarty Party
Taboo
Wits and Wagers
Word on the Street
*Newly added
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Q ueen Games didn’t star t out as a board game
publisher. In 1989, they imported Carrom tables.
When the qual i ty of those imported boards went
down, they dec ided to open a shop and manufacture
the boards themse lves . And when the popu la r i t y o f
Carrom waned a few years later, Queen thought : wel l ,
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This is a limited preview of the Winter 2013 issue of Casual Game Insider, the premier guide to casual board and card games. The full issue is available in print and digital formats at CasualGameRevolution.com.