Indie Board Game Showcase: Chicago
Come check out the latest offerings from local game designers!
Thanks so much for wanting to come to our event! Below is our list of all the games we currently have confirmed to demo at our event, though please note that we will keep adding designers until we get to 12, so feel free to check back soon and see who else we've added. Are you a game designer interested in demoing your game with us? If so, feel free to submit an application here, and if we still have space, we'll get you in.
The Games!
An Almost Perfect Date - (Party Card Game, 3-6 players)- Navigating through dating is hard, but finding that Almost Perfect Date just got harder with this game of Green and Red Flags and Date Me Instead cards vying to be picked. (Anna Morrison)
By the Word - (Flip and Write / Party, 2+ unlimited players) - By The Word is a quick thinking party game where players build sentences under clever constraints, using shared prompts and playful powers to outwrite their friends. (Ian Voves)
Chicago '68 - (Asymmetric factions, action selection, area control, and tableau building war game, 1-4+ players) - Chicago '68 is an asymmetric game of street battles, tear gas, and revolutionary spectacle set against the convention riots of 1968. (Yoni Goldstein)
Complementary Produce - (Classic Card, 6 players)- A spin on a classic trick taking game or a learning tool for your kids -- your new go to for any outing. (Ben Teich)
Dangerous Delve - (Light strategy, 2-4 players) - You compete against other dwarven factions to harvest the most gems in an unstable mountain fraught with danger! (Garrett Whitsitt)
Defense of the Hearth - (TCG, Solo, 1v1 players) - Whether you’re conquering a solo campaign or outsmarting a rival in head-to-head PVP, Defense of the Hearth delivers the definitive Tower Defense card game experience. (Gabrielle Guerrero Cordero)
Impersonal Pan Pizza - (dexterity/area control, 2-5 players)- 2-5 chefs who've each received a different pizza order will take turns flicking, flipping, and tossing the toppings on a shared pie, hoping that when it comes out of the oven, the pizza will fit their customer's taste well enough to earn a generous tip. (Roman Milan)
Mr. President Duck! - (Comedy party game, 4-8 players) - A quacky party card game filled with action, occasional attempted murder, and most importantly laughter. (Bradley Estacio)
People Live Here - (strategy, city builder, 2 players) - People Live Here is a cooperative city building game about recovering from the American suburban experiment. (Nick Schrag)
Quickdraw: Battle for Silver City - (Card Game, Dueling, Deckbuilding, 2 players) - The Law is caught in a tense shootout with the Bandits in this 18-card asymmetric team building and dueling game. (Ryan Migalla)
The Haze - (Medium-weight streamlined deckbuilder with drafting and simultaneous play, 1-5 players) - Hire mercenaries, assemble the perfect squads, and race rivals to take your cut out of operations before they take yours in a dystopian city (Victor Kalil)
Wine Cellar - (Card game, 1-8 player players) - Players play as sommeliers building a Wine Cellar for a client. You will be using the cards in your hand to bid for the cards on the table and drafting them in order. Building a timeline and scoring based on it as well as matching your client preferences. (25th Games)
ZooJourn - (Family Game, 2-6 players) - ZooJourn is a Zoological Journey around the world where you collect animals to try to be the World's Greatest Zoologist! Just watch out for the Pernicious Poacher - He might steal all your animals! (Terry Luc)