"Thunder Hamsters and the Temple of Cheese" at the Hamster Press booth at Gen Co

[MatrixGamer]

My big release for this year's Gen Con is Thunder Hamsters. It's a hybrid boardgame/Engle Matrix Game in which hamster heroes run into the temple and steal things. When they have an encounter they "tussle" with it. This means they make up a short description of what happens and pick another player to decide how likely it is to happen. Other players can jump in with counter-arguments. Dice rolls settle what (if anything) happens. This is a light hearted game that is not strictely a story game but does use the same rules I use in my other games.

Other new games this year are:

Sherlock Holmes: The Return of Col. Moran
The Graveyard Shift (a Cthulhu game)
Oswald's Genie
Punch and Judy - a puppet play game
Blood and Puppets - another puppet play game with pirates and ninjas (because I'm looking for that one person at Gen Con who has been waiting for a puppet board game.)

Chris Engle
hamsterpress.net

[Emily Care]

This is a great game for Thunder Hamsters, since you can sell it as  G-Force (the kids movie, not the 70s anime!) crossover.

Though, I suppose, they are technically guinea pigs in G-Force.

[hoefer]

Yeah, when you mentioned this game (Thunder Hamsters and the Temple of Cheese) before, it really sparked my interest.  My oldest daughter is 7 and has a bit of an interest in gaming -but she's a little young yet for most of the games I have.  I want to demo this one (will you have one open at your booth) and see if its a good match -sure sounds it!



Louis Hoefer
www.wholesumentertainment.com

[MatrixGamer]

I'll be demoing it at the booth the whole time and my demo team will be running full games in the con every day.

I'm certain a seven year old could play, the rules are very simple - you just make up how you handle encounters - but there are small tokens to mind the choking hazzard.

Chris Engle