User summary: いろかたおりがみ (Irokata Origami) is a puzzle game that uses origami (Japanese folding paper). You are given a sheet of four-colored grid paper, and from a deck of cards you draw a pattern card. This depicts a certain shape with color pattern and a number of folds allowed. You pass the test if you have made that shape and color pattern by folding...
Ironclad is a commissioned game from Frank Lantz for the game design textbook "Rules of Play", by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. Ironclad is played on a 6-by-8 checkerboard, using checkers on the spaces and go stones on the intersections. The checkers represent battling armored robots, and the stones represent arguments in a philosophical disagreement...
(now available as Isla Tetra 2 - please check BGG page) The first game from Will Sargent's Solway Games uses a colourful new puzzle system to create essential inventory items which can be used to explore the mysterious island, ISLA TETRA. The same colourful grids are built to earn Exploration, Health and Fishing actions, making for a puzzling castaway...
Following in the sandy footprints of Isla Tetra comes its card-driven 2-player cousin, Isla Tetra 2. It’s been three days since that terrible event: The violent turbulence; the acrid smell of smoke; the sudden descent and then the panicked screams of other passengers. You’re in shock, hungry and disoriented. The shore is littered with debris from the...
In Island Fortress, you play a master builder chosen by Governor Cortland Hansen to help construct the mighty Fort Aldenford using the penal colony on Alcott Island. Your goal is to become the most distinguished architect with the help of your Taskmaster, Workers, and the Governor himself! In the game, all players use identical decks of five Role Cards to...
In Island of Gems, you are decorating the beaches of the Gem Islands to entice visiting tourists. Enlist in the help of magical seahorses that give you extra victory points and encounter scuba divers that allow you to alter the board. Fight the incoming tide every three turns while you alternate moves in this highly strategic duel game. Sometimes the tide...
Isle of Feathers is a fast-paced, bird-based, 3D tile placement game about building the perfect island habitat for some very strange birds. Players stack chunky wooden tiles and place tokens to build the perfect island habitat for their birds. However, every bird is unique, and every player is jostling for position in the same space, so they need to build...
The Isle of Pan is a game of tile and resource placement with very simple rules that offers several strategies and depth. You are playing the role of explorers who discovered this lush island, with its fantastic fauna and its abundant flora. The more you progress in the game, the more you discover the island’s secrets, its lakes, mountains, and deserts....
In ISO you will delve into a world of isometry where you will compete against your opponets for the completion of objectives in one of the 3 different perspectives. It is for 1-3 players and lasts about 5-10 minutes per game, and it will most definitely be testing your conception of space and perspective. Control the three dimensions and be a step ahead of...