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Overview

It has been a little longer than usual since my last post, as I am making a shift toward youtube videos for the foreseeable future. I still plan to use the blog to update every now and again but will likely be far less frequent than before.

Anyway, I had the pleasant opportunity of attending the Guildford Games Festival earlier this month and it was a blast!

Guildford Games Festival

I attended a couple of interesting talks during my day and had the opportunity to check out some really cool games. I played one called Bullion which serves as a lighter party game whereby pirates are scrambling to get treasure. The player with the most treasure wins however if all pirates are KO’d then all the players lose! Enemies will attack players and there’s a delicate balance between being greedy and helping the team out.

I was impressed with the multiple game modes on offer. A boss battle mode introduces a boss that players need to work together to defeat less a party wipe grants an instant game over! There was also a campaign type mode for players who want to carry on their contests over several rounds.

If you like games like Mario Party and Super Smash, give this one a look.

I also played a physical card game called Traders of the Silk Road which seemed decent and robust in mechanics. I was glad to see at least one physical game at a convention aimed toward video games. Gives me opportunities in the future to maybe demo Black Metro there someday.

I wore my Overlord persona cosplay outfit so spent some time with ACM Games Academy at their cosplay draw booth, whereby their artists drew me while I did a couple of strenuous poses (at my discretion). I was paired up with a shark cosplayer and while my helmet is meant to be a dragon helmet, it can be a shark helmet this time round, so we’re a pair of sharks.