One of my appointments allowed me to look at a wide variety of more lightweight mainstream titles along with a few items that started to lean closer to puzzles or activities. Vango Toys had two food-themed games present, Smack n Cheese along with Gummy Grab. Smart Games (makers of lots of those little plastic pocket puzzles) were showing off a chess-themed puzzler, Chess Peace. Finally, Ultra Pro Entertainment (maker of lots of trading card accessories) had the party game Will Get Won’t Get, the conversation starter TableTopics: Geek Pop!, an assortment of digital trivia-ish games: Turbo Trivia, Trivia Electronic Game – Disney Edition, and finally a sort of 20 question digital toy in the form of Pokemon Trainer Ultimate and Guess All Stars – Disney Edition.
I was able to hit up Mindware titles twice on my Gen Con visit. Once at a small multi-publisher press event and then again at a booth visit. Games I saw include Trail to the Temple which has players exploring a temple using LiDAR (how cool is that?) by collecting tiles that are worth more if fewer tiles of that type are collected. Plunger Pop is a goofy slapjack-like game where players use tiny toilet plungers. Down the Water Spout is a dice rolling cooperative kids game just on the border (you decide) of an activity. In Seeker of Spells, players collect spellbooks to make the best stacks.
