Granny Wars

Project 2013-08-05 03:00:00 +1200

Do you have the balls… of wool ... to keep your Granny at the top of her game?

Or will you be needled and stitched up by the other players?

Granny Wars: A Game of Tit for Tat is a fast-playing card game for

2 to 8 players, age 7+.





Play Granny Wars - the game of secret identities - to find out if revenge is sweet or if you will be left with a pile of old tat.

The Victory cards contain a variety of Distractions (red, with negative values) and Helpers (green, with positive values). The Gold cards give you special Granny Powers (like Nana Nap) and usually contain points too.



Your grandmother has always won ribbons at the annual town fair for her handicrafts, but this year a new retirement complex has opened and you’re worried she’ll have stiff competition. Your goal is to hinder the other grannies by putting negative cards (such as a stray dog in the garden) on their piles while quietly sending helpful cards your granny’s way. You can’t be too obvious which granny you are championing. At the end of the game, players reveal their identities, claim their pile of cards and sum the score collected.



Watch out for the Tit For Tat bounce!



Brad Thompson of Auckland designed the game’s core “Tit for Tat” mechanic that lets you "bounce" cards of equal but opposite value. SchilMil Games has further developed Brad’s ideas, adding the granny theme, wild cards, and other improvements. Auckland graphic designer Katie Curd created the box artwork and Christchurch-based artist Kuan-Sheng Hsu is creating cartoons and caricatures for the cards. The game has been play-tested by over 50 people including the renowned game designer Martin Wallace.





SchilMil Games is the partnership of Julia Schiller and Amanda Milne.



In 2012 they published the award-winning Komodo and Raid the Pantry games, and the Kenakalan card game: products that are sold online and at over 50 Kiwi retail outlets.



They say:



Please help this Kiwi game design team bring our fun new game to

market in time for Christmas.



Some of the rewards are limited in supply. Pledge Now!

There are currently no plans for this game to be distributed outside New Zealand.

This could be your only chance to get this game!







The game contains:

50 Victory point cards

14 Gold cards (with special powers)

8 Granny Loyalty cards

8 Granny Score cards

Instruction leaflet

A close-captioned version of the video, a how-to-play overview, as well as cartoons and overviews of our other games are available on the SchilMil YouTube channel.





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