Twilight Creations

After trying out Zombies! and When Darkness Comes, I don't think I'll be getting any of their stuff. Zombies got old after 1 play and WDC was a mess... I traded both games away and don't miss them at all...

ubarose wrote:

Pat II wrote:

ubarose wrote:

I have Bump in the Night. It is kind of like Dungeon Twister. Not that it has the moving tiles, but it uses the same part of your brain. You are trying to position the the monsters and the state of the doors (open or shut) to create a chain reaction to force pawns off the board when they move.

Can young ones understand the mechanics? I've never played Dungeon Twister.

NO, I would NOT recommend it for young ones. It's dependent upon the development of cognitive reasoning that typically doesn't start kicking in until around the age of 10. In this case the 10+ age recommendation is legit, and I would go as far as to say that I wouldn't even recommend it to the typical 10 year old. The theme is fun, it has some AT style card play, but over all, it is a pretty heavy puzzle game. I've seen adults get pretty frustrated by it.

Thanks. I'm looking for that thematic game with cool bits for them, but something they can more or less understand with a little help.

I liked Zombies!!! with the Quick(er) Play fan-made variant. The last time I played with the regular rules we literally spent about two hours after the Helipad came out trying to "run the gauntlet" of zeds leading up to it. Everyone died repeatedly and ultimately we all got frustrated and got really sick of playing. Of course NOBODY was going to quit until the game was finished even though we should have. There was even discussion at one point of COOPERATING to get someone to reach it alive, but that was decided against. We did start giving more advice to each other than we should have in a competition game though.
There was also a two-player scenario on the website where one person plays the zombie master and the other has to find and kill him. That was pretty cool and I think they should have done more scenarios for the game to keep it fresh. Still, now that LNOE exists I don't see anyone pulling this game out.

ubarose wrote:

Pat II wrote:

Thanks. I'm looking for that thematic game with cool bits for them, but something they can more or less understand with a little help.

How old? What kind of theme?

ETA: ALL WOUND UP is thematic, with cool bits that has been a hit with the 7-12 year old crowd round here. Lots of laughs.

4 & 7 (girls) with the 4 year old playing along with Mom or Dad until she gets the hang of it. They are crafty and love monsters, zombies, aliens, barbies, kitties etc. They see us playing our games and really wnat to try them.

All wound up looks pretty nifty and I can see them laughing histerically.

The first time I played Zombies!!!, we played with this variant that my dad made up that was ostensibly based on Night of the Living Dead. The only rule I can remember from it was that, before the endgame scoring, everyone had to roll a die. On a roll of 6, the cavalry mistakes you for a zombie and shoots you. You lose.

I thought it was cool.

Sorry, wrong copy and paste!