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Games => Table-Top Games => Topic started by: Spriggan on August 11, 2003, 07:51:00 AM

Title: Creepy freaks contest
Post by: Spriggan on August 11, 2003, 07:51:00 AM

Wizkids has a contenst where you can win 1 starter and 2 boosters of it's new clixs game.  http://www.wizkidsgames.com/creepyfreaks/cf_article.asp?cid=38135&activeNav=funstuff

Title: Re: Creepy freaks contest
Post by: Entsuropi on August 11, 2003, 08:00:06 AM

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Please get your parent's permission before submitting your entry!

Oh how i laugh. Wizkids recognises its target demographic :)

Title: Re: Creepy freaks contest
Post by: Fellfrosch on August 15, 2003, 01:50:35 PM

Creepy Freaks was designed, top to bottom, as a kids game. This is specifically because their other games are far more popular with teens and adults than they are with kids, and they wanted to tap the market. This is ironic, since Weisman originally developed the combat dial to make tabletop games accessible to children--I guess simple rule systems are appealing to a wider range than originally intended.

Title: Re: Creepy freaks contest
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on August 15, 2003, 05:03:56 PM

Many game companies would do well to learn that. Despite a lot of talk about "realism," most of us want simple. (Yet we cling to our unweildy systems. *shrug*)