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Design a Giant Game, and Win Publication
German retailer Spielmaterial.de, which sells pawns, tokens, gameboards and other game-related material, has purchased a large quantity of game components from the 1999 Kosmos release Giganten and is now holding a game design competition to find new ways to use these bits. A proposed design can add other materials such as cards and gameboards, but it must use all of most of the bits from Giganten. Top rated proposals, as judged by the local gaming club in Mönchengladbach, Germany, will receive store credit, while the best submission will receive an offer to publish the game.
You can pick up a sample pack of the components at the Spielmaterial.de booth (9-33) at Spiel 08, or you can request a copy by mail for a shipping charge fee. Details of the competition, as well as a picture of the components, are available on the Spielmaterial.de website.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Oct 18, 2008 at 11:00 AM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 977
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Giganten was a great game that went largely under radar. Why not just republish it ? Posted by Bruno Faidutti on Oct 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM | #
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No kidding, we need an English version of this!! Last time I checked this was a pretty sought after game and fetches some high prices on eBay. Just reprint it! Posted by Brandon Pennington on Oct 18, 2008 at 04:16 PM | #
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Yes, I agree - the first thing that came to my mind was “why not publish a new edition of Giganten?” Posted by David Reed on Oct 18, 2008 at 04:35 PM | #
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Presumably – and I could be wrong – Wilko Manz was enrolled in a secret witness protection program and a reprinting of Giganten might draw attention to his disappearance from society and potentially expose him to agents better left unmentioned. Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Oct 18, 2008 at 04:44 PM | #
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Ah, it all makes sense now. I’ve always wondered why Manz’ very good Fifth Avenue has received such a tepid reaction from gamers. Now I see it was to protect his new identity. Wise are the ways of the gaming world! Posted by Larry Levy on Oct 19, 2008 at 02:33 AM | #
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