For the past few years, our group of gamers has taken their best guess at trying to read the minds of the Spiel des Jahres jury members. The nominations for the Spiel des Jahres and Kennerspiel des Jahres were announced back in May, and we made our predictions shortly beforehand. The winners will be announced on Monday, and you can usually watch the ceremony over on BGG or other places.
As has become our habit, we’ve done our predictions in two parts. This is the second of those parts, where once the lists are out, we do a second round of voting, limited only to the actual nominees. (In the first round, we tried to guess the nominees.)
This year, we used a similar system to what we’ve used the past three years. Each OG writer was invited to rank all three games in each category, with their top pick (what they see as most likely) getting 3 points, second pick getting 2, and final pick getting 1. Vote totals are shown below.
If you’d like to see the official information on and criteria for the award, please check out the Jury’s website.
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Publisher Perspectives on 2020: An Interview with Ally Gold of Bezier Games
A Note from The Opinionated Gamers: In lieu of our normal convention coverage, we’re doing publisher interviews about upcoming releases, asking their thoughts on the events of 2020 and other topics. Today’s interviewee is Ally Gold of Bezier Games. Ally is the Marketing Manager at Bezier Games.
You just announced a new version of Ultimate Werewolf! So I have to ask about that… can you give us any details about what’s coming to the Kickstarter this August?
Ultimate Werewolf Extreme is a way to experience Werewolf like never before. There is all new artwork, new roles, new rules, and even new technology! There’s a brand new moderator app to guide your way with ease through games, by providing customized role sets, automated entry of players, their names, and their roles, and then wraps it up by walking you through the entire game, including victory conditions. The Kickstarter features two different bundles that will add even more – awesome new bonus roles and an all pro rules and roles set for those who are already masters of the game! There will also be travel deck boxes, card sleeves, polarized sleeve inserts, an optional large tarot-size deck, and more!
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