LiuĪnother game from Hub is Untold: Adventures Await, a storytelling game powered by Rory’s Story Cubes. (Michael gave me a copy, but I managed to leave it behind, so now I have to wait a bit longer for it.) Untold from Hub Games, a storytelling game powered by Rory’s Story Cubes. It looks like some goofy fun, and I’m hoping to try out Blank soon. LiuĪs Rory and Michael put it, it turns out that Matt Leacock has quite the silly streak, though he attributes it to his daughter. What’s new this year is a booster pack designed by Matt Leacock and his daughter Colleen-they decided to create Blankdemic, a Pandemic-themed set of cards that introduces diseases and mutations and even legacy-style features to the game. There are various colored cards, and rules cards that will interact with them-but when you win the game, you get to fill out a new rule card, which is stated in the form of an “if…then” statement. On a lighter note, Hub Games also has a game called Blank that reminds me a little of Fluxx but with a fill-in-the-blank element to it. Blank and the Blankdemic booster pack designed by Matt and Colleen Leacock. I haven’t played it yet, but I’m quite intrigued. They’ve got an upcoming game called Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr that wrestles with some heavy themes that you may not expect in a tabletop game: it’s about a man who’s in the hospital after a heart attack, struggling with regrets and facing death, and you piece together his memories as you try to keep him alive. Rory is known for Rory’s Story Cubes, a GeekDad favorite, and Michael formerly ran The Little Metal Dog Show, a podcast about tabletop games. Liuīefore the exhibit hall opened, I caught Rory O’Connor and Michael Fox in the gaming halls, where Hub Games had a table set up for the weekend to run demos of their games. (In case you missed it, here’s Day 1!) Rory O’Connor and Michael Fox with a prototype of Holding On. Friday morning rolled around, and it was time to hit the exhibit hall again! Here’s my look at Day 2 of Gen Con 2018: dice, beasts, meeples, and some stunning … plastic inserts?
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