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<\/a><\/p>\nLe salon d’Essen ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 avanc\u00e9 d’une quinzaine de jours cette ann\u00e9e, il ne co\u00efncide plus avec le d\u00e9but des vacances scolaires, et je ne pourrais donc sans doute pas m’y rendre cette ann\u00e9e. C’\u00e9tait une raison de plus pour ne pas manquer l’autre grand rendez-vous du monde ludique, la Gen Con d’Indianapolis. Comme l’an dernier, je suis d’abord pass\u00e9 plus au nord, \u00e0 Minneapolis, chez mes amis de Fantasy Flight Games, mais il est encore trop t\u00f4t pour r\u00e9v\u00e9ler de quoi il y a \u00e9t\u00e9 question. Puis, tandis que toute la sympathique \u00e9quipe de FFG entamait un p\u00e9riple d’une dizaine d’heures en car vers Indianapolis, je profitais l\u00e2chement de mon billet d’avion pour les prendre de vitesse.<\/span><\/p>\n L’an dernier, sans nouveaut\u00e9s notables, j’avais surtout pris part \u00e0 des d\u00e9bats et conf\u00e9rences. Cette ann\u00e9e, j’avais cinq jeux nouveaux ou tr\u00e8s r\u00e9cemment parus sur le salon, et ai donc consacr\u00e9 le plus clair de mon temps \u00e0 des d\u00e9monstrations, d\u00e9dicaces et pr\u00e9sentations.\u00a0 <\/span>J’ai quand m\u00eame trouv\u00e9 le temps de jouer \u00e0 quelques autres jeux, ceux qui faisaient le buzz ou qui m\u2019intriguaient.<\/span><\/p>\n Les deux jeux dont tout le monde parlait \u00e9taient Mysterium<\/strong>, des ukrainiens Oleksandr Nevskiy et Oleg Sidorenko, et Codenames<\/strong> du tch\u00e8que Vlaada Chvatil, deux jeux bas\u00e9s sur le m\u00eame principe. Je ne parlerai pas encore de Mysterium, \u00e9tonnant m\u00e9lange de Dixit et de Cluedo souvent d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9 dans ce blog, que je tiens pour le meilleur jeu du moment et dont l’immense succ\u00e8s ne me surprend pas. Codenames exploite lui aussi le principe du joueur – un ma\u00eetre espion – qui doit donner des indices pour faire d\u00e9couvrir les bonnes cartes \u00e0 ses partenaires, mais c\u2019est un jeu par \u00e9quipe et ce sont des mots qu’il faut faire deviner en donnant des indices communs – on pense un peu aussi \u00e0 l’excellent Linq.<\/span><\/p>\n Parmi les autres jeux dont tout le monde parlait, du moins autour de moi (c\u2019est \u00e0 dire parmi les fran\u00e7ais d\u2019une part et l\u2019\u00e9quipe de FFG d\u2019autre part), je pense qu\u2019il faut citer :<\/span><\/p>\n Mais, bon, j\u2019ai s\u00fbrement rat\u00e9 plein de trucs, parce que j\u2019\u00e9tais surtout l\u00e0 bas pour mes jeux, ceux que j\u2019essayais de placer chez des \u00e9diteurs (\u00e7a s\u2019annonce plut\u00f4t bien), ceux qui vont sortir et dont nous avons parl\u00e9, et surtout ceux qui sortaient pour le salon – Mission Plan\u00e8te Rouge, Warehouse 51, Le Collier de la Reine – o\u00f9 qui sont sortis assez r\u00e9cemment – Attila et l\u2019\u00e9dition am\u00e9ricaine de Dragon\u2019s Gold.<\/span><\/p>\n La nouvelle \u00e9dition de Mission Plan\u00e8te Rouge<\/strong>, chez Fantasy Flight Games, est absolument superbe, et d\u2019une ergonomie parfaite. Les joueurs \u00e9taient enthousiastes et voulaient tous l\u2019acheter mais, trop prudents, les gens de Fantasy Flight n\u2019en avaient apport\u00e9 que, je crois, 250 boites, qui furent vendues d\u00e8s le vendredi midi. Pour les autres, il faudra attendre, elles sont dans un bateau quelque part entre la Chine et les \u00c9tats-Unis. C<\/span>hez Cool Mini or Not, la nouvelle version du Collier de la Reine<\/strong> \u00e9tait un peu \u00e9clips\u00e9e par le succ\u00e8s de Blood Rage et de the Grizzled, l\u2019\u00e9dition am\u00e9ricaine des Poilus, mais elle n\u2019en a pas moins eu son petit succ\u00e8s. De nouveaux dessins et, surtout, plein de nouveaux personnages qui renouvellent sacr\u00e9ment le jeu.<\/span><\/p>\n Chez Passport Games, les choses avaient mal commenc\u00e9 pour Warehouse 51<\/strong>, les 1000 boites de pr\u00e9s\u00e9rie exp\u00e9di\u00e9es de Chine un peu en h\u00e2te pour le salon ayant des r\u00e8gles en anglais et des cartes en fran\u00e7ais. Fort heureusement, on s\u2019en est aper\u00e7u quelques jours avant, juste \u00e0 temps pour obtenir des jeux de cartes en anglais – mais ceux-ci \u00e9taient \u00e0 part, et il fallait les donner s\u00e9par\u00e9ment \u00e0 chacun des acheteurs. Cela n\u2019a pas emp\u00each\u00e9 cette premi\u00e8re sortie de l\u2019entrep\u00f4t 51 d\u2019\u00eatre un grand succ\u00e8s, et il n\u2019est aucun autre jeu dont j\u2019ai sign\u00e9 autant de boites. Chez Blue Orange, le succ\u00e8s de New York 1901 ne laissait gu\u00e8re de place aux autres jeux, surtout les tout petits comme mon Attila<\/strong>, mais j\u2019en ai quand m\u00eame fait quelques d\u00e9monstrations tr\u00e8s appr\u00e9ci\u00e9es. Il est vrai qu\u2019un jeu qui se joue sur un coin de table et dont les r\u00e8gles s\u2019expliquent en trente secondes est parfaitement adapt\u00e9 \u00e0 ce type de salon.<\/span><\/p>\n L\u2019\u00e9dition am\u00e9ricaine de Dragon\u2019s Gold<\/strong> \u00e9tait pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e chez IDW games. Ce n\u2019est qu\u2019\u00e0 moiti\u00e9 une nouveaut\u00e9, puisqu\u2019elle reprend les illustrations des \u00e9ditions europ\u00e9ennes, et je ne m\u2019y suis pas beaucoup arr\u00eat\u00e9, mais on m\u2019a assur\u00e9 que ce petit jeu de n\u00e9gociation en temps limit\u00e9 rencontrait un vrai succ\u00e8s.<\/span><\/p>\n Raptor<\/strong> n’\u00e9tait pas pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 publiquement \u00e0 la GenCon, mais Bruno Cathala l’a montr\u00e9 lors de l’apr\u00e8s-midi de presse d’Asmod\u00e9e, \u00e0 laquelle je n’\u00e9tais pas. J’esp\u00e8re qu’il a \u00e9t\u00e9 convaincant.<\/p>\n Curieusement, alors que je devrais me sentir plus \u00ab\u00a0chez moi\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 Essen, o\u00f9 les joueurs ont des go\u00fbts et une culture ludique plus proches des miens, je m\u2019amuse plus \u00e0 la GenCon, o\u00f9 l\u2019ambiance est plus d\u00e9contract\u00e9e, plus d\u00e9jant\u00e9e, o\u00f9 les joueurs sont moins press\u00e9s, les discussions plus cools et dont, au bout du compte, je pars moins fatigu\u00e9. Je reviendrai sans doute l\u2019an prochain !<\/span><\/p>\n This year, the Essen fair will take place two weeks earlier than usually, which means that it doesn\u2019t fit anymore with the beginning of the French Autumn school holidays, and I probably won\u2019t be able to attend this year. This was one more reason not to miss the other great yearly boardgame event, the Indianapolis GenCon. Like last year, I first visited my friends at Fantasy Flight Games, in Minneapolis, but I can\u2019t yet reveal what we talked about. Then, while the whole friendly FFG team drove to Indy by car, a ten hours long trip, I cowardly made use of my round trip flight ticket to bypass them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Last year, I had no new game to show, and mostly attended panels and talks. This year, I had five new or nearly new games on the fair, so I had to spend most of my times doing demos and signings at my publishers\u2019 booths. I still found some time to play a few of the other games, mostly those which were buzzing or which looked intriguing.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The two new games everybody was talking about were Mysterium<\/strong>, by Ukrainian designers Olegsandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko, and Codenames<\/strong>, by Czech designer Vlaada Chvatil, two games partly based on the same core idea. I won\u2019t talk here once more of Mysterium, a strange mix between Dixit and Cluedo, but if you visit this blog regularly, you already know I think it\u2019s one of the very best boardgames around, and I\u2019m not surprised by its fabulous appeal and success. Codenames is based on the same principle, one player having to give clues to his partners to help them find the right cards, but it\u2019s a competitive team game and the cards have simple words, not pictures. If also feels a bit like Linq.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Other games everybody was talking about, or at least everybody around me (meaning either the Frenchmen or the FFG team) were : I certainly missed lots of good stuff, because I was mostly there for my own games, to place new ones with publishers (this worked pretty well), to discuss those which are still in the pipe, and of course to promote those which were premiered at the Con, Mission: Red Planet, Warehouse 51 and Queen\u2019s Necklace, or were published recently – Attila and the US version of Dragon\u2019s Gold.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The new edition of Mission: Red Planet<\/strong>, at Fantasy Flight Games, is gorgeously illustrated and produced. It was demoed on the FFG booth, and players all wanted to buy it, but the FFG guys had been too careful and had brought only 250 copies (or so I think), which were sold out by Friday morning. The rest of the print run is in a ship somewhere between China and the US.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n At Cool Mini or Not, the new version of Queen\u2019s Necklace<\/strong> was eclipsed by the tow big hits, Blood Rage and the Grizzled, but those who played it enjoyed it a lot. It has new pictures and, most of all, lots of new characters which really add to the game.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Raptor<\/strong>\u00a0was not publicly shown at the con, but Bruno Cathala demoed it at the Asmod\u00e9e press party – where I was not. I hope he was convincing.<\/em> I ought to feel more at home in Essen, where players have a gaming culture and game tastes more akin with mine, than in Indianapolis. I actually feel much more at ease at GenCon, because everything feels more casual, more cool. Gamers are not hurrying in the alleys trying to play as much games as possible in as little time as possible, they take time to wander around, to talk. I\u2019ll be back next year.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le salon d’Essen ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 avanc\u00e9 d’une quinzaine de jours cette ann\u00e9e, il ne co\u00efncide plus avec le d\u00e9but des vacances scolaires, et je ne pourrais donc sans doute pas m’y rendre cette ann\u00e9e. C’\u00e9tait une raison de plus pour … Continue reading <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>
\n<\/span>\u2022 Blood Rage<\/strong>, un tr\u00e8s gros jeu de draft ameritrash de mon ami Eric Lang dont j\u2019ai eu la chance de jouer \u00e0 un prototype l\u2019an dernier.
\n<\/span>\u2022 Deck Building<\/strong>, de Christopher Badell, le jeu de deck building o\u00f9 l\u2019on construit sa terrasse, prix du meilleur titre de jeu du salon.
\n<\/span>\u2022 La nouvelle \u00e9dition d’Evolution<\/strong>, de Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre et Sergey Machin, que tout le monde dit bien sup\u00e9rieure aux pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes
\n<\/span>\u2022 Flick’em Up<\/strong>, de Ga\u00ebtan Beaujannot et Jean Yves Monpertuis, un jeu de pichenettes d\u00e9lirant et tout en bois, avec des cow boys, des cactus, un saloon\u2026
\n<\/span>\u2022 Forbidden Stars<\/strong>, de Samuel Bailey, James Kniffen et Corey Konieczka, un gros machin ameritrash, un genre que je ne pratique plus gu\u00e8re, mais qui semble particuli\u00e8rement bien con\u00e7u.
\n<\/span>\u2022 The Grizzled<\/strong>, l\u2019\u00e9dition en langue anglaise des Poilus de Juan Rodriguez et Fabien Riffaud, qui semble partie pour avoir le m\u00eame succ\u00e8s que l\u2019original fran\u00e7ais.
\n<\/span>\u2022 Nevermore<\/strong>, un jeu de draft tout simple et tr\u00e8s malin – enfin, celui-ci, pas grand monde d\u2019autre n\u2019en parlait, c\u2019est moi qui y ai jou\u00e9 et qui en parlait \u00e0 tout le monde.
\n<\/span>\u2022 New York 1901<\/strong>, de Ch\u00e9nier Lasalle, dans lequel certains voient le nouveau Ticket to Ride
\n<\/span>\u2022 Ninja Camp<\/strong>, d\u2019Adam E. Daulton, d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9puis\u00e9 quand j’ai voulu m’en procurer une copie – je ne sais m\u00eame pas ce que c\u2019est. Antoine Bauza dit que c\u2019est g\u00e9nial.
\n<\/span>\u2022 Tides of Time<\/strong>, de Kristian Curla, le seul jeu \u00e0 deux de cette liste, est un petit jeu de cartes \u00e0 la japonaise qui nous vient – comme beaucoup d\u2019ailleurs des succ\u00e8s de cette ann\u00e9e – d\u2019Europe de l\u2019Est.
\n<\/span>\u2022 Two Rooms and a Boom<\/strong>, d\u2019Alan Gerding et Sean McCoy, auquel tout le monde joue depuis d\u00e9j\u00e0 deux ans mais qui est maintenant r\u00e9ellement \u00e9dit\u00e9 avec de vraies r\u00e8gles et de vraies cartes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Blood Rage<\/strong>, a big ameritrash drafting and fighting game designed by my friend Eric Lang, of which I have played a prototype last year.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Deck Building<\/strong>, by Christopher Badell, the deck building game about deck building, with saw, planks, nails and hammer cards.\u00a0 <\/span>It was certainly the best named game of the con.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 The new edition of Evolution<\/strong>, by Dominic Crapuchettes, Dmitry Knorre and Sergey Machin, is said to be far superior to the older ones – I bought it.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Flick’em Up<\/strong>, by Ga\u00ebtan Beaujannot & Jean Yves Monpertuis, a delirious flicking game with cow boys, cactuses, saloons\u2026. By far the best looking game on the fair.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Forbidden Stars<\/strong>, by Samuel Bailey, James Kniffen & Corey Konieczka, another big ameritrash box with spaceships and hundreds of tokens. I don\u2019t play much games like this, but this one seems to be very well designed.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 The Grizzled<\/strong>, the US edition of Les Poilus, by Juan Rodriguez and Fabien Riffaud.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Nevermore<\/strong>, a simple and clever drafting game. I was the one trying to make it buzz, since I played it the first day and really liked it.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 New York 1901<\/strong>, by Ch\u00e9nier Lasalle, generally said to be the next Ticket to Ride.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Ninja Camp<\/strong>, by Adam E. Daulton, already sold out when I tried to get a copy. I\u2019ve no idea of what it is, but Antoine Bauza says it\u2019s great.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Tides of Time<\/strong>, by Kristian Curla, the only two players game on this list. It feels very Japanese but actually comes from Eastern Europe, like many of this year\u2019s hits.
\n<\/span><\/em>\u2022 Alan Gerding and Steve McCoy\u2019s Two Rooms and a Boom<\/strong> is already much played for two years, but it\u2019s nice to have now printed cards and final rules.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
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\n<\/a>The two Brunos demo Mission : Red Planet.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>\u00a0D\u00e9moing and signing Queen’s Necklace at Cool Mini or Not<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/em>Things had started badly for Warehouse 51<\/strong>. The 1000 advanced copies sent from China in a hurry had English rules and French cards (French and English look probably all the same for Chinese, just funny letters). Luckily, this was noticed a few days before the show and the Passport guys manage to have English cards airshipped just in time – but they had to be given separately to every buyer. This doesn\u2019t prevent the game to be a hit, people were queuing to have their copies signed.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a> <\/span><\/em>At Blue Orange, the huge success of New York 1901 left little room for other games, but I nevertheless made some demos of Attila<\/strong>, a game that must work very well at conventionq – explained in thirty seconds, played in five minutes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/a>The US edition of Dragon\u2019s Gold<\/strong> was demoed and sold at IDW games. It\u2019s nothing really new, since it has the same graphics as the last European editions. I didn\u2019t spend much time there, but I was told it was very well received, especially because of the time-limit negotiation.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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