Hair of the Dog, from publisher Cherry Picked Games, is a new release by Alex Jerabek, Jules Naujoks & Annegret Nautsch.
In Hair of the Dog, you and your friends/ competitors are dog petting enthusiasts, and have decided to make it a challenge of who can pet the most dogs. Luckily for you, there’s a bar around the corner that allows owners to bring in their pets, and you can pet them until your heart is content! (Or until the dog is tired of being petted and leaves with their owner…)
PLAY – The Game Festival, the international event dedicated to Board-Games, Role-playing Games, Miniatures Games, Live, and Collectible Card Games returns from May 17th to 19th at ModenaFiere with more than 28.000 square meters of covered area in five different pavilions.
More than 2.500 tables ready to play, 7,000 chairs, thousands of titles including great classics, latest releases, meetings and conferences.
Many news for this special edition that we will be able to announce in the coming weeks including a web site both in english and german.
All the main publishers will attend Play 2024 including Asmodee, Cranio Creations, dV Games, Ghenos Games, MS Edizioni, Giochi Uniti, Iello. Mancalamaro, Red Glove, Pendragon, Devir, Ravensburger, Clementoni, Wizards of the Coast, Need Games, Hasbro, Ludus Magnus, Giochix, Spin Master, Djeco, Flesh & Blood … the complete list is growing day by day.
This year Play will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons and Role Playing Games with events, meetings, special guests.
We will have fun playing with the words role, experience and narration. Role-playing but also the role of gaming in our society.
The Fantasy Map of PLAY –The Game Festival. The 15th edition of PLAY –The Game Festival will also be an opportunity to see a dream come true. The well-known artist and cartographer Francesca Baerald will draw a spectacular fantasy map of PLAY. The artist, who was born and raised in Modena, Italy, is known for her work done for books, video games and role-playing games, such as D&D, Magic: The Gathering, Gloomhaven, Warhammer, Warcraft, Diablo IV, Horizon Forbidden West, the Iron Throne and many others. Francesca’s daily working tools are watercolor, ink, acrylic and oil, and with these she will create this exciting new project.
Scientific Area. Play also hosts those who work on games by building innovative game-based research projects in a wide variety of disciplinary fields. Confirming the fundamental role of games in learning and study processes, again this year PLAY counts on the collaboration of some of the most important Italian research institutions that will be present with their proposals: the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), the National Institute of Nucelar Physics (INFN) and the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) that will be joined by important institutions from the academic world such as the IMT of Lucca, L’Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna confirmed for the first time that will flank the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the University of Florence and the University of Genoa. The same area will also host an area dedicated to inclusive and accessible play organized in collaboration with AUSL Modena.
Organized by ModenaFiere in collaboration with Ludo Labo and the support of Club TreEmme, La Tana dei Goblin and dozens of other Italian play associations,
Time: 60-90 minutes on box. Approx 70 minutes in actual time in my solo play
Played: once with review copy provided by publisher
Captain Jessica Kowalski’s crew has been offered another offer from the Corporation. Apparently, a ship carrying a precious load vanished a few weeks ago. The mission was simple: locate the ship, assess the situation and make sure the cargo reaches Earth. However, the last log entry was rather unsettling. She recorded: the AI of the ship detected alien lifeforms, labelled Intruders, aboard. Silence is scarier than usual…
Side Quest: Nemesis is a game of puzzles and enigmas by the designers of the Escape Tales series, but now in the Nemesis universe. SideQuest: Nemesis offers captivating puzzles, an interesting scenario and difficult choices to make while under pressure. The game will test your creativity, your perception, your open-mindedness. Be aware the silence aboard is not a good sign and intruders are hiding in the darkness. Complete your mission and avoid being contaminated at all costs!
Designers: Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc, Theo Riviere
Publisher: Ankama
Players: 2-5
Age: 8+
Time: 15 minutes
Played with review copy provided by Flat River Games
Your goal in Draftosaurus is to have the dino park most likely to attract visitors. To do so, you have to draft dino meeples and place them in pens that have some placement restrictions. Each turn, one of the players rolls a die and this adds a constraint to which pens any other player can add their dinosaur.
Draftosaurus is a quick and light drafting game in which you don’t have a hand of cards that you pass around (after selecting one), but a bunch of dino meeples in the palm of your hand.
In AQUA, your starting point is a hot spot that gradually becomes surrounded by expanding coral formations. These corals serve as habitats for small marine animals. By fostering biodiverse habitats, you can then create ideal conditions for attracting the largest marine animals. AQUA plays over 17 rounds. On your turn, you must take a new coral tile from the market and add it to your reef, then you may also attract animals to your ecosystem if you create the correct patterns of coral. At the end of the game, the player who grew the best coral formations and attracted the most large and small sea animals will score the most points and win. AQUA invites you to dive into the beauty and wonder of the ocean, delivering an incredible variety of gameplay experiences for the whole family.
