06- The Family Gamers Podcast – Boston FIG

Thanks for tuning in! This week, we talk about the Boston Festival of Indie Games, with some special guests – our kids!

What we played this week:
Numberbots (“Not a game, Mommy”)
Project Rocket Golfing
Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique (discontinued iPad game)
Slideways

More information about the games we saw at Boston FIG:

• Project Rocket Golfing (iOS, by Morgan McGuire)
  • Simple graphics with realistic gravity
  • No win/lose, just earn awards for passing certain milestones (under par, hole-in-one, finished all holes (“planets”) on on course (“galaxy”)
  • Only 99 cents!
• Howie & Yarla (“the game where the red went all over the school, and then he went with a snake on him”) – not yet available
• A Tofu Tail
  • Here’s our silly little Asher!
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• Pizza! Fast!
  • free-to-play iOS game (ad supported)
  • restaurant simulation game with
• Grow Fairy Kingdoms (by Yaya Play Games)
  • semi-simultaneous play (everyone grows their plant at the same time, then takes turns attacking)
  • non-lethal attacking (“pruning”)
  • must “gift” to other players in each growing round, which both makes things less fully random but also encourages balance
• Maze Racers
  • 2-4 players – you each build a maze for a marble to run through
  • When everyone is done, trade mazes, then race!
• Slideways (by Tricia McLaughlin)
  • 4×4 tic-tac-toe with a twist
  • great travel game
  • 2-3 players
• Oh My Gods!
  • “guess the hidden card” game themed on the Greek gods
  • Each god also has a power to reveal or swap out cards
• Why The Long Face?
  • “Face charades”
  • We never thought pictures of taxidermied animals could be so hilarious!
• Fishing and Farting (card game)
• Smorball (online typing game)
• MegaloMalady (iOS / Android)
• Sneaky Cards
• OutFoxed
• Flashlights & Fireflys (by Pair of Jacks Games / Jeff Johnston)
• Toasted or Roasted (by Pair of Jacks Games / Jeff Johnston)
• Robit Riddle – simple role-playing for kids, choose-your-own-adventure style!
• Loose Nozzles – Foster Family Games. iOS rocket flying game, all artwork / sounds done by 6-year-old Ian.

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