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

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.

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

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