Tokyo Game Market
This weekend I had a chance to attend the famed Tokyo Game Market and it was great!
Game Market features tons of Japanese board game and tabletop RPG designers and I had a lot of fun wandering the booths and checking out games, even if I couldn’t understand most of them.
Some of the more unusual games that caught my eye:
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“It’s Actually Hard to Take a Photo” A game that involves building a town out of cardboard and then trying to get optimal photos that include as many animals as possible.
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“Strange Vending Machine” which involves feeding (fake) coins into different vending machines.
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Gift10 Industries had a few board games that used phones in interesting ways. The middle one is “Floorplan Cards VR” and has one player using a phone to look around and describe an apartment in VR while the other players race to guess which floorplan they see.
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“Group Date TRPG” is a storytelling game about Japanese Gokon (group dates). One of the character archetypes is “unrequited love”
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“Summon Skate” has plaers saving the world through figure skating by skating out symbols that summon monsters to help your cause.
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In “Karepo” you play a woman trying to live her best life, from 20-80 years old. Designed by a financial planner!
I had a great time wandering through Game Market and would definitely go again if I happen to be in town!