The best seminar I went to was done by Looney Labs. Partly because they all dressed up in Rabbit ears and Lab Smocks and were so excited about playing their games, partly because I liked the Freebies, partly because they LOVE PLAYING their games and played a lot of their games with us, partly because they seem to be really good games and partly becasue they are not $50 games like the ones from Mayford (which are awesome games, but $40-50)

When I got to the room they gave is a game for free! It is called NANO Fictionary

It is a deck of cards. Each with a picture and there are 4 differnet colored backgrounds. BLUE cards are SettingI grabbed two- they are "Up in the sky" and "the shopping mall just before closing". The 2 character cards I pulled out say "the little black cat' and 'a guy that always says, "Dude!"..' they are green, th problem cards are orange. The one I grabbed says ' a terrible accident invloving food' and I grabbed a yellow resolution card that sys 'duct tape saved the day again'. So they way the game works is you draaw a couple characters and a setting or to, a problem and a resolution. Then you make up tiny stories. You can have little kids each pick a different card, and you and the litle kids work on a story, you can have older kids pick al their own cards and each make a story using their set of cards, you can randomly choose a set of cards and each chils has to make their own sotry using the same set and read them to hear how everyone makes diffrent stories with the same cards. You can do outloud story telling where everyone takes turn adding tot he story and every few minues draw a new card to be addedint the story... AND I got 4 packs of BLANKS! Each pack of blanks has 4 characters, 2 settings, 2 resolutions 2 problems a wild card and an action. OOOH I forgot about the ACTION cards. That makes FIVE colors. There are purple action cards, tooI guess their are 4 standard action cards- Plagiarize, (steal a plot from another player's story by swapping it with a card from your own hand-swap the same color.) Uncrumple, take any card from the discard pile, put it in your own hand...and a few more. Those would be for playing the gamelike card game. There are also prize cards and completion bonuses. They actually didnt talkmuch about playing at the card game, they talked a lot about how to use this card game in an educational setting.
They had a neat game called chronoauts, it's a timline game based on early american history or modern (2 diff decks)a and you have to make a different timie line by flipping certain cards to make a paradox and (what would happen if Lincoln didn't get shot? what other parts in the time line would change).. and making a changing in 1 card has certain effects on about 2-3 other timeline cards. But someone else's paradox can effect your own, and you also have to coolect artifacts and there are cards to reverse a paradox, etc. it looks fun.

They have a game called FLUXX that was fun, too.

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