Category: Viewpoint Reflections - 93 MADE GAMES

93 Made Games will be played at PretzCon 2015

18/3/2015

PretzCon is returning again in 2015 on Friday, 10 to Sunday, 12 April in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. 93 Made Games are proud to be continuing its major sponsorship of the expo and support its goal of providing a fun and safe environment for gamers of all ages to play.

93 Made Games has sent an expo package containing Viewpoint, Viewpoint Reflections, Monster Town and a whole lot of other goodies for attendees to play and enjoy.

Other games for attendees to play include Dominion, Apples to Apples, Machi Koro, Spiderman Yahtzee, Telestrations, Ghost Stories, Boss Monster, Pathfinder, Amerigo, Dungeon Roll, Zombie Dice, Battle for Sularia, Samurai, DC Comics Deck Builder, Bruges, 7 Wonders, Get Lucky, Forbidden Island, Unspeakable Words, Takenoko, Mille Bornes, Cannibal Pygmies in the Jungle of Doom, Escape: Curse of the Temple, Dungeons and Dragons, Fresco, Roar-a-Saurus, Legendary, Settles of Catan, Captain's Wager, Rialto, Pandemic, Splendor, Mysterium, Murder Mystery, Firefly the Board Game, Sons of Anarchy, Pit! With Bell!, Steam Park, La Isla, Dead of Winter, Crokinole, Discount Salmon, Battle of the Bands, Oz Fluxx, Shadows Over Camelot, Cash 'n Guns, Red Dragon Inn, Two Rooms and a Boom!, Cthulhu!!!, Trivial Pursuit, Pirate Fluxx, Fortune and Glory, Dead of Winter, Diamonds, Triassic Terror, Shark Mania, Trailer Park Wars, Hyperborea, Piraten Kapern, Hulk Smash!, The Mastermind Affair, Word Jam, Dragon Slayer, Acquire, Vye Card Game, Bra Room Brawl, Moderne Zeiten, TriBond, Boss Battle, Shadowrun Crossfire, Penny Press, Ladies & Gentlemen, Abyss, Pandemic: The Cure, Cyclades, Crusoe’s Planet, Set Cubed, Chez Geek, Lords of Waterdeep, Stuff and Nonsense, A Study in Emerald, Karma, DUNE, Smash Up, Ticket to Ride, Tokaido, Munchkin, Warhammer 40,000, Zombiecide, Sentinels of the Multiverse, The Resistance, Game of Thrones, Hoity Toity, Dixit, Aguirre, Summoner Wars, Quarriors!, Kolejka, Firefly RPG, Zombie ’15, Paranoia, Zombies!!!, We Created a Game, Eclipse, Five Tribes, Snake Oil, Cube of Death, Bang!, Cards Against Humanity, Werewolf Night, Munchkin Booty, Fellowship, Power Grid, Belfort, Nations, Guillotine, Maginor!!!, SdJ’athon, Citadels, Talisman, Lowenherz, Elevenses, Spartacus, Dino Race, Pay Dirt, XCOM: The Board Game, Cutthroat Caverns, Karnickel and Avalon.

Phew! That was exhausting… aaaaand attendees can also bring their own games or borrow games from the extensive games library. It’s like the games never end and neither will the fun all weekend at PretzCon.

PretzCon is a non-profit, family-run gaming convention offering a fun, safe environment for gamers of all ages to play. At PretzCon, you’ll find board, card, dice, and role-playing games. Play your favourite games or take the opportunity to try out new games.

Wrap-up from Toy and Game Expo 2014

22/7/2014

It was another successful Toy and Game Expo for 93 Made Games in the year two thousand and fourteen. We'd missed the previous year's expo due to a variety of reasons and were very happy to return to an expo that brings gamers, game designers and the general public together under one very high roof.

The expo started off with the indoctrination of the newest member of the company when we subjected Simon to bump in on a freezing winter's night. Whilst the expo hall was warm enough, having to circumnavigate half of Olympic Park to return to our cars froze our proverbials off.

Both days of the expo gave us plenty of chance to catch up with old friends and make new ones. We received visits from Barry and Jason from UOW Guild Gaming Society as well as Simon, Sam and Will who have been big supporters of Viewpoint in Australia and abroad. Christine and Manuel from Mega Games also dropped by to say g'day and pick up their freshly-minted copies of Monster Town. We made a lot of new contacts with up and coming designers such as Kim from Secret Base Games, Jason from End Game Games and Anna from Draw Cards Game. We saw and played many great games from Australian designers and can easily envisage a time in the near future where Australian games are going to be a well sort after commodity. Watch out world!

It's not a Toy and Game Expo without a Viewpoint Championships and it seems it's not a Viewpoint Championships without the reigning World Champion Lindsay Heming from The Games Cube winning again! 22 other competitors placed Lindsay firmly in their sights but he managed to stave off a concerted effort in the typical style of a champion (winning by the smallest of margins) by claiming his first double crown - Viewpoint Champion 2014 and Viewpoint Reflections Champion 2014. Well done Lindsay!

Viewpoint aside, we also had great fun demoing Monster Town and NinjitZoo. The guys from Blue Room Games definitely have a popular game and we're proud to help them get it out to the gaming public. We also can't wait to see what game they have in store next.

So if you were unfortunate enough to miss out on this year's Toy and Game Expo, make sure you check out their website and get in early for next year's expo. We'll see you there!

The Toy and Game Expo is Australia's only public expo with the latest in toys and board games. Experience the fun in this family interactive heaven for ages from 4 through to adults based on a principle of See, Play, Own. Come along and SEE passionate high end users demonstrating their projects. PLAY with it yourself, and if it tickles your fancy take the opportunity to OWN it by visiting a retail booth.

Monster Town and other fun at the Toy and Game Expo

13/6/2014

Gamers will have their first chance to get their hands on the premiere edition Monster Town at this year's Toy and Game Expo in Sydney, Australia on 5-6 July. 93 Made Games will also be showcasing its other games - Viewpoint and Viewpoint Reflections - as well as NinjitZoo, which is the first game from Indie designers Blue Room Games. These games will be exclusively available to the Toy and Game Expo attendees for special expo-only discount prices. Along with Mega Games and Natural 20 Games and Hobbies, the expo will also be the only locations where gamers will be able to purchase Monster Town prior to its official release in September 2014.

Free Stuff!

As per usual, 93 Made Games will be giving away plenty of merchandise to people who show up at our booth and purchase our games. And back by popular demand, 93 Made Games chocolates will be available - while stocks last - to anyone who comes by our booth to say hello.

Demo Games

We will be demonstrating all of our released games as would be expected but will also be demonstrating the latest prototype of Superstars Rugby League to those diehard league enthusiasts. Attendees will also get to throw rotten tomatoes at us during our 30 minute stint on the Spotlight Stage so please feel free to raid the vegie bin and hurl some produce our way or at least come by to say hello and play our games.

Indie Distro

Last but by no means least, we want to meet with as many other independent Australian game designers and publishers as possible. The expo is a great place for doing this so if you have a game that you have designed and/or released then we want to know your story. Come by our booth or drop us an email so we can see how we can help build the Australian games industry together. 93 Made Games might even be able to assist in distributing your games throughout Australia and beyond.

The Toy and Game Expo is Australia's only public expo with the latest in toys and board games. Experience the fun in this family interactive heaven for ages from 4 through to adults based on a principle of See, Play, Own. Come along and SEE passionate high end users demonstrating their projects. PLAY with it yourself, and if it tickles your fancy take the opportunity to OWN it by visiting a retail booth.

Representin' at the International Tabletop Day

24/3/2014

Gamers will get their first look at the Monster Town beta prototypes during International Tabletop Day activities hosted by Mega Games in Penrith, NSW on Saturday, 5 April 2014.

Viewpoint, Viewpoint Reflections and NinjitZoo will also be on show as part of the International Tabletop Day festivities at the PretzCON games convention in Omaha, Nebraska and g33k3 (pronounced “geeky”) pop culture convention in McKinney, Texas.

International Tabletop Day is a celebration for all the fans of tabletop gaming. A single day where the whole world is brought together in a common purpose of spending time together and having fun.

Oops... we've won it again!

6/7/2013

93 Made Games received its second gong for having a game short-listed in the Boardgames Australia (BGA) Australian Game of the Year Awards. The original Viewpoint game was short-listed last year. This year Viewpoint Reflections was short-listed for the award. Everyone at 93 Made Games is so excited to be short-listed again and aim to, one day, win the coveted Australian Game of the Year Award.

Once again, the competition was very strong with the four short-listed entrants included Phil Harding who designed the 2008 award winner Archaeology. Phil showed his class by taking the top award again with his game Dungeon Raiders. Dungeon Raiders proved so popular that it is now sold out across the world. Well done Phil!

Viewpoint Reflections short-list award.

The Boardgames Australia awards were presented at the 2013 Toy and Game Expo, which was held at Sydney Olympic Park over the June long weekend. More information about the awards can be found on the BGA website.

Viewpoint 3v3 League Season

14/11/2012

The new exciting Viewpoint 3v3 season gets underway on 1st January 2013. What is Viewpoint 3-on-3? Download the description and rules here.

Teams should register or express their interest by emailing us before the 31st December 2012. You are allowed 3 main players (1 captain and 2 other main players) plus 2 reserves (back up players who can substitute if the main players cannot make an agreed match).

Once teams are registered, 93 Made Games will place them into regional groupings so that it is easy for teams to hook up and play games. Depending upon the number of teams in a region, teams will have to play a number of predetermined games against the other teams in their region (example, Brisbane Central has 9 teams competing and Sydney West has 3 teams - the Brisbane teams play each other once, while the Sydney teams play each other 3 times). 93 Made Games will determine the actual number of games required in each region.

Teams and the regions they are based in will be posted on the 2013 3v3 Season webpage, along with the email contact of each team captain. The 2013 season will run from January 1st to May 31st. All teams must arrange to play their required games within their region by mutual consent. Once a game time and place is agreed to, the details will be posted on the webpage. Non-show results in forfeiture of the match. If people find it difficult to agree on a suitable date, 93 Made Games will nominate an in-store/in-club session where the teams will play.

Results are to be emailed to 93 Made Games by the winning team and confirmed by the losing team.

The two highest scoring teams in Australia will be invited play in a Grand Final to be held in June 2013.

Viewpoint is a fun-packed and easy to learn card game for 2 or more players aged 7 and up. Be the first player to reach 100 points by looking into the future, spying on other players and blindsiding your buddies!

Viewpoint at the Heroes & Villains Pop Culture Expo

13/11/2012

On the 25th and 26th of August 2012, Anthony Condos from 93 Made Games attended the Heroes and Villains Pop Culture Expo in Penrith as a part of the Mega Games stall.

With cosplay, numerous special guests and a range of other events that occurred during the expo it was a fun and fantastic weekend for all. It was a pleasure for Anthony to show the attendees how to play Viewpoint. Some of the Magic: the Gathering players attending the expo strolled over to have a taste of the Viewpoint experience. The people who came to us for demonstrations ranged from children of the age of seven to adults aged thirty plus; even entire families came to have a go of Viewpoint and Viewpoint Reflections.

93 Made Games would like to thank Manuel and Christine of Mega Games for inviting us to demonstrate Viewpoint and Viewpoint Reflections to the expo attendees that came to their stall. And, as you can see from the photos, Viewpoint is not only global, it is now intergalactic!

Viewpoint is a fun-packed and easy to learn card game for 2 or more players aged 7 and up. Be the first player to reach 100 points by looking into the future, spying on other players and blindsiding your buddies!

Viewpoint Tournament Wrap from TAG 2012

19/6/2012

93 Made Games hosted the Australian Viewpoint Championships and Viewpoint State of Origin at the Toy & Game Expo. Both tournaments boasted some of the biggest names in Viewpoint, including former World Champion runner-up Will Yung and former Player of the Year runner-up Alex Done.

Australian Viewpoint Championship

Lindsay Heming won the Australian Viewpoint Championship for 2012 by defeating an all-star cast of former and current Viewpoint champions. The combined might of Jacob Moriarty (2012 NSW Champ), Alex Done (2010 QLD Champ) and Will Yung (2010 Worlds Runner-Up) was not enough to stop Lindsay from taking the championship in 47 minutes. The early rounds were also tough with Jacob narrowly sneaking into the top 4 on second-order breakers. The stage is now set for a thrilling World Championships in October.

Viewpoint State of Origin

New South Wales evened the ledger by defeating Queensland by 2 games to 1 in this year's state of origin. NSW took the first game quickly with Will Yung flooding the board with View-points whilst his teammates Lindsay Heming and Victor Areces stalled QLD's efforts. QLD trio Sean Carroll, Alex Done and Keith Done balanced the scoreline in the second game by mirroring NSW's tactics from game one. With QLD on the verge of securing the origin trophy again, Victor Areces pulled off an amazing turn to return 20 points from the discard pile to his hand and play it to take NSW to the summit of victory. Congratulations to New South Wales!

Lindsay Heming, Will Yung, Jacob Moriarty and Alex Done

Viewpoint is a fun-packed and easy to learn card game for 2 or more players aged 7 and up. Be the first player to reach 100 points by looking into the future, spying on other players and blindsiding your buddies!

Tournament Report from the NSW Viewpoint Champion

18/6/2012

Read this unique, swashbuckling tournament report by the 2012 NSW Viewpoint Champion, Jacob Moriarty.

Bonjour, and welcome to my gloat-fest. No really, I’m Fox Murdoch and this is the article they BEGGED me to write, featuring all my exploits along the path to victory. I am your NSW State Champion for 2012, and believe me I’m the best for the job.

How did it all begin? Well the previous night I located all the other competitor’s homes and paid their mothers/fathers/relatives $50 to put ex-lax in their dinners. Alas, it didn’t work! I’d have to win the day with real cunning, a touch of that charming smile, and unfortunately some actual games!

Not to worry. I happen to be a fantastic hand at Viewpoint – did I ever tell you about the time I bested a pirate ship and took all their wenches? Of course not, I’ve only just started my first article! Hah haa, but Viewpoint’ll get you outta some tight spots. Alimony for the kids? I win, you keep ‘em!

The day was like any other. The earth rotated, making it appear that the sun rose. I did too, and chose to skip the shower, intentionally. I find an off-put opponent has trouble holding their cards and their nose at the same time, so mores the winning!

I ventured forth carefully, calming the public transport beast known as a “bus” and arrived in Penrith, at Mega Games, in time for the registration. Even if not, I’m the bestest best friend of the local shop keep, and she told me already she’d slide in me for an extra $100. Not a small fee, but she be a fine crook if e’er there was!

But before we tell ye of the rounds, there was one small spry bright young bonny, who did catch me gaze. A William, a very clever one, who was Actually Reading The Cards before a tournament. This was new to me, actually reading? I always just got in there, had me way with the opponent, and then was the winner! But reading? Such a novel idea, such a rogue concept – surely he’d be one to watch.

Round 1 vs.Christine

Lo and behold, round 1 was against the very shop keep who let me in! Vengeance was mine! What do you mean, “what vengeance?” Of course I owed her some, she nearly might’ve not let me in! We shuffle up and play Viewpoint normal, and the game isn’t hard. I get a lot of bouncy fun type cards, that give you a solid 20 and let you replay your discard spells. And keeping a paw with roughly a hundred million spectacles, I knew she couldn’t have them and I’d be well protected, haha!! I win on 115, blast and double. That’s the first time I’ve finished under 150 EVER.

Game 2 we crack open the Viewpoint Reflections, and it’s a cracker from the start. People seem to be deathly afraid of having their precious Teddy Bears being taken, so when I try and steal some cards off her, Christine instantly drops some bears, and then I spy the useful cards that’re still in her hand – though now I mean mine. Without many ways to interrupt my progress, plus a few million of them “flip two cards for free” cards, I win the game easily and soundly.

So a nice opponent, and well fought but utterly vanquished. I can’t blame her really, there was a lot of prizes to hand out to mere mortal players for things like Kaleidoscope and fortune “Cookies” if you saw into the future and horrible green masks if you turned into a green eyed monster!! You can’t except someone to keep an eye on their game, when there’s the game, the prizes and me to distract you with.

Round 2 vs. William

Blast and double, William! I had no knowledge of my opponent, only that he READ CARDS before the game, and probably during them too! Didn’t he know the best way to play was with the most points, and to simply draw the best cards? Hmph, we’d have to see how he did things.

Game 1 he wins. Ashamed I am, I didn’t know “reading” was a good thing. Or something anyone could do. He helped me read a few of my own cards when I misplayed Blindside and poked him in the eye with me sword. He did manage to beat me with a fantastic amount of points, 135+ or summin’, while I was barely simmering at only 15ish. That’s what happens when you play Shadow, Mirror Image, Mirror Image and he plays STEAL ALL YOUR CARDS. Blast!

Game 2 he wins. Twice ashamed I am, as thanks to some nasty tricky “steal yours and play mine” style cards, he manages to steal all of my point while cranking himself up to 150 points! That’s overkill, you don’t need to go past 100 but by 50 points! Egads, I think me head be swimmin’. For the first time ever, I record a negative points total, gasp! This’d take away from me point lead I had after round 1!

Round 3 vs. Anthony

My opponent this round was a nasty, tricksy character. And forgive this old ego-trippin’ cliché pirate character, but I cannae remember his name nor the games. We both win one a piece, and the games ran like your typical affair. I play cards, he plays cards, we both go for big plays, but mine pans out since I kept cards from the start of the game, completely angled at tipping him over with a perfectly timed and precisely applied REVEAL.

Wait, it comes back to this old scurvy sea-dog, it’s Anthony, one of the game's creators! Bah, the way he was playing you wouldn’t THINK he created the game, ‘sall this pirate’ll say.

So with another win under my belt, I’d have to gulp and cross my hands and pray for a miracle…

Top 4

AND GET IT! I make Top 4, and it’s a heated session. William is around, but he’s done way too much peacocking, methinks – everyone is instantly wary of him and I know this’ll reflect in the game's plays. There is also Alex, who’s a wry sport and I think he’ll try and be tricky like myself, so definitely two be watched. And another fellow, Shawn, who’s game I didn’t watch but he seemed to be having fun, mostly, so a good member to have in a Top 4 all the game. Er, same.

The game begins, and skipped turns are all handed to William. We really don’t want him amassing all the extra turns and extra plays, that’d be devastating. Though we’re careful enough around each others toes, and I can smell the REVEAL cards just pilin’ up in everyone's hand. I know the score, play it safe until you CAN win. Never “Cookies”, always keep them. Teddy Bears are sacred.

The first big decision of the game came when I got -5 “swap a card” card. I’m no fool, I know it’s a good card but I know, worse, that I have three opponents. If I play it, how long will I keep it for? NEVER, that’s right! So much to my opponents’ “How could you? That’s stupid!” I bin the card for itself immediately, preferring the freebie and the knowledge that it’ll take 2 turns to retrieve, and then play, so it’s quite less of a concern now.

The second big problem came when William was ravaged, Shawn wasn’t really in it, and Alex was being very tricky indeed. He said He didn’t want to win, so who wanted his help? Well nothing says “Watch me” like “No really, don’t watch me” so I accepted his help and was super wary of things.

I had myself a Blindside, and imagined it’d be used on William, but he was so far behind that he couldn’t spring to 200 all that easily. Alex could, however, so I skipped his next turn. That wasn’t it though – about a million REVEALS jumped out! Cancel that. No, I’ll cancel THAT. No, says William, I’ll cancel THAT. No, says I, I’ll cancel THAT! No really, it went quite like that, all true and told and sworn to truth, we even have the video!

After the dust had settled, and everyone had made final decisions, it was decided to leave me to play my card and get it my way. Alex was skipped, Shawn and William added little things to the board, and on my next turn I played another Blindside, bringing my total up to 185. The joke? I had only 5s and 10s in hand, not a single 15 or 20! I relate this to the other guys, laughing as I feel the Championship may be slipping from me fingers.

Alex skips his next turn, and Shawn sticks true to his name and can’t do anything against me. William looks at his options, and plays the card that lets you mess with the top two cards of the deck. One for him, and one for me. My best hope if that they’re both 20, and he doesn’t have a card that’ll stop me. Worse case scenario is that it’s a horrible little 5, or worse, a minus!

The turn passes after MUCH consideration from William, and I draw Scab Duty, aka “draw a card from the bin.” Drat, only 10 points! If I play it, I’d end on 195, pass to Alex and then surely he’d win…

Unless there was a… precious little Teddy Bear in the bin, yes?

Perusing through the discard pile, I find chaff, crape, and finally that timid little teddy, who’s a godsend at only 5 points but a REVEAL instant speed! I howl with laughter and might, slap the delightful little Teddy Bear onto the field and wait, breathless?

“Do I have it?”

My opponents look at each other, their hands, and no one has any response. VICTORY!!!

To celebrate, I took everyone there to the local pub, where I drank too many beers and cut all their heads off. The police were awful nice about it, letting me play Viewpoint to get out of it. I win, easily (I’m the NSW State Champion, don’t ya know?) and now I’ve got me eyes set on the National Championship. State is good, don’t get me wrong, but this ego just ain’t that small-scale, you know? National will suit me fine.

Fox Murdoch, pirate captain.

Viewpoint is a fun-packed and easy to learn card game for 2 or more players aged 7 and up. Be the first player to reach 100 points by looking into the future, spying on other players and blindsiding your buddies!

Viewpoint Now Sold Throughout Europe

13/5/2012

Even though the bulk of the European economy is performing poorly, 93 Made Games has been successful in negotiating a deal with one of the major European game distributors - Esdevium Games.

In 93 Made Games' largest distribution deal to date, Esdevium Games purchased a bulk order of Viewpoint and Viewpoint Reflections. Viewpoint is already sold in over 75 stores throughout Australia and New Zealand and the European deal effectively quintuples the number of Viewpoint stockists worldwide.

This is a very proud moment for the company who conducted all of the negotiations without going through the typical channels of using a games agent or broker. The deal builds on the success the company has had in the Oceanic region and helps ensure that Viewpoint is indeed played everywhere!

If you are an Australian or New Zealand game designer or independent publisher and would like more information on how to export your games to Europe then please feel free to chat with 93 Made Games at our booth at the Toy and Games Expo in Sydney on 9-11 June 2012.

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