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Anthony Boydell
United Kingdom
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A while ago, following the 2009 launch of Fzzzt!, we (in Surprised Stare Games) dreamed a dream! A dream of licensing our first product because we'd sold all of our first Edition between the UK Games Expo and Essen Spiel shows of that year.
In 2010, Gryphon Games took the base game, added the 5-6 player expansion that I'd designed and presented the whole thing in a lovely, big tin box with a velvetty trim. I was, as you might expect, chuffed to pieces!
In the same year, we'd been contacted by a Russian company with a view to a Cyrillic re-print and, because they wanted to put it in a bigger package, I designed something called 'the Peripheral Devices' expansion to go with the 5-6 player cards and the basic stuff.
The peripheral devices expansion is a 12 card deck that you shuffle at game start and draw one card from at the start of each round. The device affects the way the round functions in various ways - from adding extra cards to the conveyor, changing the way the Chief Mechanic works etc. I posted up a Powerpoint file of the first 8 cards ages ago (it's still there on the Fzzzt! pages somewhere) - but we had some spare card slots, so the customer and I added four more. It's been so long since the files were sent off that I can't remember the details but JUST THIS WEEK we heard that the Russian version of Fzzzt! has now been released and we were sent a couple of complimentary copies!
The box - amusingly this is the same kind of box you get kitchen fittings in from builders merchants; very 'tech'!
Opening the box - chunky insert, a REAL SPANNER FOR THE CHIEF MECHANIC!, a large 'main deck' and the blue-backed PERIPHERAL DEVICES cards:
A closer look at the stuff in the box:
The six mechanics in all their fat, sweaty, clumsy glory!
Finally, the Cyrillic Peripheral Devices...oh, to have them in English, eh?
That's it, really.
Just wanted to share my delight you with you all, dear friends.
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