Origins Lightning Round
Nominees for the 35th Annual Origins Awards
If we convince you to buy some of the excellent choices below, why not order from Myriad Games- our partner Friendly Local Game Store. You’ll get a great game and we’ll get some product to give away as prizes!
BOARD GAMES
Agricola
Z-Man Games, Inc.
Uwe Rosenberg
Ninja vs. Ninja
Out of the Box Publishing
Tushar Gheewala
Pandemic
Z-Man Games, Inc.
Matt Leacock
TOMB
Alderac Entertainment Group
John Zinser
Wealth of Nations
TableStar Games
Nico Carroll
CHILDREN’S, FAMILY, AND PARTY GAMES
Backseat Drawing
Out of the Box Publishing
Peggy Brown
duck! duck! Go!
APE Games
Kevin G. Nunn
Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
Mongoose Publishing
James Wallis
Living Labyrinth
Bucephalus Games
Julie Haehn
Rorschach: The Inkbot Party Game
Bucephalus Games
Dan Tibbles, Jeremy Holcomb, Joe Huber, and Stephen McLaughlin
Say Anything
North Star Games
Dominic Craphuchettes and Satish Pillalamarri
CARD GAMES
Dominion
Rio Grande Games
Donald X Vaccarino
Monty Python Fluxx
Looney Labs
Andrew Looney
Red Dragon Inn 2
Slugfest Games
Geoff Bottone, Colleen Skadl, and Cliff Bohm
Ticket to Ride Card Game
Days of Wonder
Alan R. Moon
Trailer Park Wars
Gut Bustin’ Games
Lisa Steenson
NON-FICTION
KOBOLD Guide to Game Design, Vol. 1
by Wolfgang Baur, Nicolas Logue
Open Design
Lost Leaves From the Inn of the Last Home
by Margaret Weis
Margaret Weis Productions
No Quarter Magazine
editor-in-chief Nathan Letsinger
Privateer Press
Things We Think About Games
by Will Hindmarch & Jeff Tidball
Gameplaywright Press
Tour de Lovecraft: the Tale
by Ken Hite
Atomic Overmind Press
MINIATURE FIGURE GAME RULES/ MINIATURE FIGURE OR LINE OF MINIATURE FIGURES
Monsterpocalypse Collectible Miniature Game
Privateer Press, Inc.
Matt Wilson, Bryan Cutler, Jason Soles, Rob Stoddard, and Kevin Clark
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
CthulhuTech
Catalyst Game Labs
Matthew Grau, Fraser McKay, and Mike Vaillancourt
Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Players Handbook
Wizards of the Coast
Rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, and James Wyatt
Mouseguard Role-Playing Game
Archaia Studios Press
Luke Crane and David Petersen
Star Wars Saga Edition Core Rulebook
Wizards of the Coast
Chris Perkins, Owen K.C. Stephens, and Rodney Thompson
Trail of Cthulhu
Pelgrane Press Ltd
Kenneth Hite, Robin D Laws, Jerome Huegenin, and Simon Rogers
More Information
Full list of nominees can be found HERE.
Contests!
We have some of these games to give away as prizes!
Contest #1: Post about your experience with any of the games we talk about or help review a game we didn’t see (200 words or more) and you’ll be entered into a drawing!
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July 4th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
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July 20th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Interesting blog post. What would you say was the most important NLP factor?