Thanks for tuning in! This week, we talk about the Boston Festival of Indie Games, with some special guests – our kids!

What we played this week:

Numberbots (“Not a game, Mommy”)

Project Rocket Golfing

Disney Fairies Fashion Boutique (discontinued iPad game)

Slideways

More information about the games we saw at Boston FIG:

* Project Rocket Golfing (iOS, by Morgan McGuire)

* Simple graphics with realistic gravity

* No win/lose, just earn awards for passing certain milestones (under par, hole-in-one, finished all holes (“planets”) on on course (“galaxy”)

* Only 99 cents!

* Howie & Yarla (“the game where the red went all over the school, and then he went with a snake on him”) – not yet available

* A Tofu Tail

* Here’s our silly little Asher!

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* Pizza! Fast!

* free-to-play iOS game (ad supported)

* restaurant simulation game with

* Grow Fairy Kingdoms (by Yaya Play Games)

* semi-simultaneous play (everyone grows their plant at the same time, then takes turns attacking)

* non-lethal attacking (“pruning”)

* must “gift” to other players in each growing round, which both makes things less fully random but also encourages balance

* Maze Racers

* 2-4 players – you each build a maze for a marble to run through

* When everyone is done, trade mazes, then race!

* Slideways (by Tricia McLaughlin)

* 4×4 tic-tac-toe with a twist

* great travel game

* 2-3 players

* Oh My Gods!

* “guess the hidden card” game themed on the Greek gods

* Each god also has a power to reveal or swap out cards

* Why The Long Face?

* “Face charades”

* We never thought pictures of taxidermied animals could be so hilarious!

* Fishing and Farting (card game)

* Smorball (online typing game)

* MegaloMalady (iOS / Android)

* Sneaky Cards

* OutFoxed

* Flashlights & Fireflys (by Pair of Jacks Games / Jeff Johnston)

* Toasted or Roasted (by Pair of Jacks Games / Jeff Johnston)

* Robit Riddle – simple role-playing for kids, choose-your-own-adventure style!

* Loose Nozzles – Foster Family Games. iOS rocket flying game, all artwork / sounds done by 6-year-old Ian.

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