Weekender: Bust Some Ghosts! & Halloween Game Designer Challenge
September 5, 2015 by warzan
Welcome to The Weekender where we're going to be pondering on loads of awesome stuff that happened this week in the tabletop world and also proposing a new Game Designer Challenge for you to get stuck into!
News Updates
Kicking things off we're checking out what's popped up in the news and on the website in general.
- The Desert War - Oriskany's article series continues as the battles get more desperate during World War II.
- Pandemic Legacy - A new take on the amazing Pandemic sees you playing through a progressive campaign over subsequent months.
- Journey Wrath Of Demons - The fantastic models continue to come out of Marrow Productions with Golden Horn.
- Galaxy Quest Returns - A cult classic film which ribbed us wonderful nerds and geeks could be back as a TV show.
- Privateer Press Hard Plastics - We get updated on the new Hard Plastic releases from Privateer Press and what is already out there with the Transfinite Emergence Projector & Permutation Servitors.
Dawn's Making Miniatures
If you've checked out the home page you'll notice that BoW Dawn has created an article all about her work with Paranoid Miniatures on making a character a reality. The artwork is looking superb for Jezebel but if you want to find out more you'll have to read the whole article!
In addition to the awesome artwork Dawn is also giving away a copy of the miniature when it's eventually created so go and find out how you get involved.
Busting Ghosts
Crooked Dice Games have also worked on making their Paranormal Exterminators a big part of the 7TV experience. A New PDF is available and of course you can grab the models too!
Game Designer Challenge
Talking of horror and ghosts we've also got plans for another Game Designer Challenge! Our thoughts so far have been on the idea of Witches with their potions and brewing cauldrons or Werewolves howling at the moon.
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Game Designer Challenge Application Form
If you're interested then we're looking for one Game Designer and one Artist who will be working together to create the game which we will then put together and send out to the community.
LEGO Star Wars
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is closing in (released in December) and with that LEGO have started going mad with the kits.
We take a look at some of the early previews which show off some of the characters and their ships as well as the deadly new First Order Stormtroopers and their speeder.
Join Backstage For XLBS Tomorrow
We hope you have a good weekend full of tabletop goodness!
Don't forget to join in with the Game Designer Challenge if you have some creative ideas.
Have a great one!
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Happy Weekend!
What I like about these views, is that it gives me a look at companies and miniatures that I would not normally be aware of.
Keep up the good work.
Couldn’t agree more! It really is a rich time in hobby gaming thanks in no small part to Bow! Cheers, guys!
Some great games that I don’t think I’d ever hear about otherwise. Pretty sure my bank manager wishes I didn’t watch the show though 🙂
Happy weekend from sunny Majorca !!
Good Morning! Great show as always 🙂
Good morning. Great show
The Flash was the best of the TV comic book adaptations last year. As a 22 episode series it had some filler, but the final third was excellent. Way above my expectations. Agent Carter is the Captain America spin-off.
What he said.
favourite bit of the weekend …..great show
Great show!
“First”, what? I’m still gonna say it.
Oh I’d love to design an exorcist themed game. It will be like a dungeon crawler, kinda. still tossing a few concepts around.
Woohoo the weekender is here! Paranormal exterminators looks excellent.
Good morning. I wish the BB8 toy came with a built-in cam.
It’s the weekend already? Damn – week off almost over!
In this age of intellectual property I am constantly amazed cand delighted how close 7TV gets away with not infringing anything, well noit enough to be stopped! I’d live to see their filing cabinet full of C&D letters and copies of their responses.
I guess the Gh*stbusters name is copyrighted but the costumes and equipment not so much.
Parody laws perhaps?
Having been on the wrong end of an IP suit, I believe that they are completely in breach of copyright. It is just that the rights holder hasn’t enforced those rights here.
They could at any time though, which is why these sorts of things on kickstarter are problematic – they can be stopped at any time.
Never give up, never surrender!
happy weekend. I liked the daredevil serie’s very brutal but love it. agents of shield was a bit slow in the beginning, but after the captain America: winter soldier the serie theme took a,new direction, and I loved it. especially the in-humans we are beginning too see.
well I dont believe in no ghost 😀
But loverly models!
the paranormal exterminators look epic!!!
Lol my fist halloween costume ever was a black bin bag and a cheap plastic witch hat. Witches never scared me, I just don’t see what’s so scary about them.
`paranormal exterminators reminds me of another film or something I remember from my childhood lol. love to win this prize such a slice of childhood nostalgia linked with what looks like a great beer and pretzel style game.
Happy weekend everyone. Good show guys’
Are you the gate keeper?
Next time someone asks if you’re a god, you say . . .
Yes!
Pull the trigger and find out
No autographs ?
I had an idea for a future expansion of “Ginormous Gelatinous Gooey Sailor” but I ate it:(
With those minis you just HAVE TO get a huge marshmallow ghost. 🙂
Love me some paranormal exterminators.
I need the Paranormal Exterminators. Ghostbusters was the first film I ever watched and to this day me and my son watch It on a regular basis.
As always great weekender!
7TV seems nice, but I’m waiting for the cryptozoic Ghostbusters game 🙂
I saw a fantastic demo (didn’t get chance to play) involving Well Known 1960s Investigative Team, vs some Morris Dancers vs Scary Scarecrows from Well Known Time Travel TV Show.
It looked tremendous fun!
I love the idea of your games being TV shows. Just think of all the possibilities 🙂 If someone with more brains than me can think up some cool card combos to make MacGyver work, I’m in.