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Tomorrow I’ll be headed to Boston for my 3rd year attending the Boston Festival of Indie Games, both covering the show for A Pawn’s Perspective and also as a BFIG Tabletop Curator. It’s a great show filled with excellent games, great people, and one very handsome award presenter! (that’s me) If you’re attending the show, be on the lookout for …
Legacy of the Stars is a huge that that took up a majority of its display table at Boston FIG 2017. It’s a sprawling, $100 game in line with old classic 4X PC games. With tons of pieces and 8 different factions to play as Legacy of the Stars looks to cater to those who prefer the long build-up with …
One of the first games to catch my eye on my initial walkthrough of the Boston FIG floor was Shiki by Lido Labs. Shiki is a card drafting game where players are trying to create Haikus, each round creating a line of their poem. Bonus points are awarded at the end of the game for players who can stick to …
What do you get when you combine sheep decked out in their best RPG gear and cakes? Cake Duel! Cake Duel is a 2-player card game of set collection and bluffing where players compete to win cake by using their Sheepie cards in the form of Archers, Soldiers, Wizards, and so forth. Sizigi Studios had a great Kickstarter run with …
Evil Overlord Games was showing off their massively multiplayer, story-driven text adventure, Susurrus: Season of Tides at Boston FIG this year. The game has players taking the role of a Mage, Vampire, or Werewolf in a world hidden just under normal mortal eyes. The game contains tons of custom artwork and music to really help immerse the player into the world of …
Spell Scroll was located in a very unassuming booth towards the back of the gym where the tabletop games were being shown. Still in development, it’s a card battle game that ditches most card battle tropes and delves into 1 one 1 combat between two mages. Each player gets a Sorcerer, a deck of spells, 20 health, and dial to …
Cavalry Games booth at Boston FIG was showcasing a game they’ve had out since 2015 called Ten Candles, a zero-prep tabletop horror storytelling game designed for one-shot 2-4 hour sessions. Played by the light of ten candles that also functions as a sort of timer for the game, players try to complete meaningful tasks in a world where catastrophe has …
Tim Blank, one of the Boston FIG organizers and founder of Gameworthy Labs, has a most interesting booth setup on the show floor. You’ve Been Poisoned! was an escape room experience condensed and modified to work within a convention booth space. The premise behind the game is that the players have been poisoned and have been locked inside their poisoner’s …
Shrug Island is a hand-drawn tale, a game of nature puzzles and musical adventure. It’s also the recipient of Boston FIG’s 2017 “Innovation in Art and Narrative” award for digital games. Based on the existing world from the award-winning 2009 animated short, Shrug, Shrug Island is a point and click adventure set in 4 chapters. Currently the first chapter has …
THE CRINIMALS table at Boston FIG was packed full of players every time I walked past it, so, unfortunately, I never got a chance to play. I did, however, get to watch several games and it was enough to really catch my eye. In THE CRINIMALS up to 4 players take the role of animal criminals who have just successfully …