Alice the diner waitress with Scott and Jason Hill of Flying Frog
In the main exhibit hall, I stopped by to say hello to brothers Scott and Jason Hill of Flying Frog Productions, home of one of my favorite zombie games: Last Night on Earth. Even though I woefully neglected to write up Fortune & Glory from last year (still on my lengthy to-do list!), they were still happy to see me. There’s a new stand-alone expansion for LNoE called Timber Peak, which continues the story. A few survivors made it out of Woodinvale, hoping to escape the zombie hordes … but of course they found more zombies waiting for them. With a few new recruits (including Alice the diner waitress pictured above), they’re back to fighting off the undead. I’ve got a copy of Timber Peak and am excited to break it out. You can pre-order it here. (They were also showing off The Coast, an expansion for A Touch of Evil, but the theme of AToE never grabbed me as much so I haven’t tried that one yet.)
The upcoming expansion for Conquest of Planet Earth: Apocalypse.
Flying Frog also has an expansion coming out later this year for Conquest of Planet Earth, the game where you’re all aliens competing to take over Earth. Apocalypse comes with four new alien races, some stronger coastal defenses for those puny humans, and four new allies (including the Apocalypse Cube, featured on the box cover). I hope to have more about this one down the road.
Super Dungeon Explore: Caverns of Roxor
Speaking of games with cool miniatures, I stopped by Cool Mini or Not’s booth and saw Caverns of Roxor, the first expansion to Super Dungeon Explore. Of course, if I got a copy it wouldn’t look like this, because I’m still a miniatures n00b. Caverns of Roxor adds three new heroes (Starguild Sapper, Princess Ruby and the Deeproot Scout), and big Fire Elemental and some smaller baddies.
Unpainted minis for an upcoming Super Dungeon Explore expansion.
I also got this shot of a bunch of minis for another upcoming expansion for Super Dungeon Explore, Von Drakk Manor. Looks like another set of heroes and several more big bad guys with minions. I don’t have an anticipated release date on this one yet, but if you’re a SDE fan then keep an eye out for these. As a bonus: the minis for the expansions come pre-assembled!
The first Golden Bots Award I’ve seen in the wild!
I stopped by to visit David Weinstock, creator of Zoxso, which won our (ahem) very prestigious Golden Bots Award in 2011 for Best 2-Player-Only Game. Well, after GeekDad Nathan Barry created our lovely Golden Bots image and we sent it out to winners, I hadn’t actually seen one out in the wild. For the recent Zoxso World Championships, Weinstock took some of the chips used for Zoxso pieces and made tokens to hand out — including some with the GeekDad Golden Bots Award. Pretty cool. And if you still haven’t tried Zoxso, check out my review and then go order yourself a copy — it’s great.
