Work together to contain a devastating oil spill & save the sea life!
Description:
Offshore rig, DeepWell 4, has blown out & the rupture is spilling crude oil into the ocean at an alarming rate! Your response team must work together, using your individual talents to avert an ecological disaster, one which threatens to contaminate marine life and devastate the ecosystem. The situation is dire and escalating by the minute, so there is no time to waste. Contain the oil flowing from the rig Remove what oil you can from the waters Rescue the marine animals The world is watching. The fate of the coast is in your hands! This fully cooperative game, for 1-4 players, features a 4-way dice tower as the oil rig, which randomly drops oil dice onto the four quadrants of the game board. In this respect, the game is a reverse tower defense game, as players sail the perimeter trying to push back and contain the oil, remove dice from the water and save the sea life.
Draft pottery, and manage its breakage and repair, to create the most beautiful set.
Description:
"Kintsugi" is the Japanese art of using golden lacquer to repair broken pottery. In Broken and Beautiful, players draft cards like bowls, cups, and tea jars to create high-scoring sets. As some pieces inevitably break, players must judiciously repair what has been shattered. Whole pottery is valuable. Broken dishes are worthless. That which has broken and been repaired is uniquely precious.
Compete as a satirical cult leader to recruit followers and fulfill your evil agenda!
Description:
A take-that, pattern-building game from Pops & Bejou Games. Play as a cult leader working to fill your compound with followers to help you carry out your agenda. But watch out! Rival cult leaders may try to sabotage you or convert the followers you cant keep in line. You might also garner unwanted attention from pesky investigators who try to get in your way. Persuade the right followers, outwit your foes, and rise above the rest.
Draft cards as you try to build the most balanced ecosystem nature has ever seen!
Description:
Ecosystem is a card-drafting game in which players choose cards and place them into their play area turn by turn. The cards in a player's grid make up their own personal ecosystem, and at game's end, a player will have twenty cards in their ecosystem, with the game including eleven types of cards. Bears score by being placed next to bees and trout; trout score by being placed next to streams and dragonflies; and streams are compared at the end of the game, with the player who has the largest stream earning points. These are just a few examples of how scoring works in Ecosystem. Don't forget to diversify!
Mental Roadblocks: How Your Brain Can Keep You from Making Wise Financial Decisions
Summary:
Learn to overcome some common geek themes: The Curse of Knowledge; Too Smart for my Own Good; Too Clever by Half in our personal lives, and when it comes to personal finances.
Description:
The Curse of Knowledge; Too Smart for my Own Good; Too Clever by Half. As geeks, we probably have heard these expressions in our careers, and have learned to compensate, adapt, or overcome these mental roadblocks in our professional settings. However, many of us have not been able to transform those lessons of overcoming mental roadblocks in our personal lives, ESPECIALLY when it comes to personal finances. Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a secure and comfortable financial future. However, it turns out that its actually a pretty tough thing to do. It seems our mind keeps getting in the way. But what if you better understood these mental roadblocks? What would you be able to do with this new knowledge? More to the present, where would you even begin? As our Saturday morning cartoon hero says, Knowing is half the battle.
Networking: Using Outside Professionals to Expand Your Reach
Summary:
Learn how to connect your clients to professional services they may need, build a real feeling of community, & market your store through joint sponsored events. Great for FLGS, Libs, & Edus.
Description:
Gamers run into three main issues, impacting Game Store Owners (GSOs): Not enough money to buy games they want? Not enough time to play the games they have? Too worried about work/budget/cash flow to enjoy the games they do play. Libraries and educators also want to increase traffic, and connect more with their community. With the "Rise of Geekdom", many gamers are career-minded individuals that want to slay the occasional dragon. There are people in your community who want to meet these people, help them reach their goals, and share the same interests. Jeff Riegle is an independent financial adviser, backed by Principal. As avid gamer, Jeff wants to help GSOs, Libraries, and Educators learn how to reach out, qualify, and harness these community members and their services.
A tile-stacking game in which mutant bees build 3-D radioactive honeycombs.
Description:
Radioactive Bees is a tile placing strategy game that resembles a post-apocalyptical beehive under construction. The purpose of the game is to place tiles of different shapes to earn points and prevent opponents from using their tiles to earn points for themselves.
Cooperative or competitive strategy game pitting heroes against an ominous Tower, Digi-Phyisical, based on the 1980s Milton Bradley game.
Description:
For an age, the tower lay in ruins. Unbeknownst to the people of the realm, a great evil stirred in its bowels. It started with strange sightings: a flock of crows flying in circles until they dropped from the sky, the lake frozen solid in the height of summer. In time, they could not deny that which they most feared. The evil had not been vanquished. The darkness would soon fall again. The tower will rise. A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all.
Draft pottery, and manage its breakage and repair, to create the most beautiful set.
Description:
"Kintsugi" is the Japanese art of using golden lacquer to repair broken pottery. In Broken and Beautiful, players draft cards like bowls, cups, and tea jars to create high-scoring sets. As some pieces inevitably break, players must judiciously repair what has been shattered. Whole pottery is valuable. Broken dishes are worthless. That which has broken and been repaired is uniquely precious.
A tile-stacking game in which mutant bees build 3-D radioactive honeycombs.
Description:
Radioactive Bees is a tile placing strategy game that resembles a post-apocalyptical beehive under construction. The purpose of the game is to place tiles of different shapes to earn points and prevent opponents from using their tiles to earn points for themselves.