Our friends over at Victory Point Games are gearing up for their annual appearance at ConSimWorld Expo, to be held in Tempe, AZ in early June. This time of year is huge for VPG as they do their utmost to debut as many new titles as possible. This means there’s a dire need for playtesters to help ensure these new releases are up to the high standards of gameplay we’ve come to expect from “the little game company that could”.
If you’ve ever wanted to have an opportunity to be an integral part of the game design process here’s your shot!
From VPG:
Our big annual game convention is ConsimWorld Expo, held this year during the first week of June in Tempe, Arizona, under the fine auspices of hobby hero John Kranz. There, at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, will assemble a few hundred of our hard-core wargaming customers in the company of several Victory Point Games “personalities” whom you read about often in this column – and all of them will be showing off their latest VPG releases and playtest kits. We try to debut as many new things at this show as we’re able to, so the month prior to CSW Expo is a crazy one around the office.
That is why we need your help, if you can spare it. If you would like to be a playtester for one of our many upcoming releases, now is the time to step up and volunteer.
We are seeking immediate playtesters for the following games: For the Crown, Keep up the Fire!, and Hero of Weehawken – and there are several others, perhaps a dozen or so, fast on their heels. You will read more about these games later in this column. CLICK HERE for information how to put your name forward and receive a playtest kit.
If you are local to Southern California, we need you to stop by the office during the Saturdays of May and help us playtest games; there will be lots of kits on the playtest tables to choose from and they all need your considered opinions. Saturday gaming attendance has been down of late, and we need our “regulars” to “dice up” and get playing again during May. If you’re local, please schedule a Saturday afternoon with us one week soon!
Andrew Jackson in a conspiracy with Thomas Jefferson
Martial Law in New Orleans
‘Burrslyvania?’
Trafalgars effect on the United States.
These are just some of the things you could learn by playing ‘Hero of Weehawken’ from VPG.
I sat through a complete play through of this game and was not only totally immersed in our nations history, I was learning about a period of history that was breezed through in school.
There are many facets of this game you get to go through. You get to solve a conspiracy mystery against you (Thomas Jefferson) while forging US policy against England. If all goes right, and you find and arrest all the conspirators, play the epilogue part of the game using a court / trial game against the conspirators you have captured out ‘west’ with your federal agents. All this from one game that fits in a ziplock bag, that you play solitaire. And I didn’t even play it myself, I watched.
In a word: Buy!