Dear students,
we did it! Potion Explosion won the Italian Game of the Year Award, the Gioco dell’anno 2016! Congratulations to our Italian distributor too, Ghenos Games! We would also like to thank you, the players, for making this game a success.
Below you can find a video (in Italian) that explains why Potion Explosion won the Award:
May the explosions always be with us all!
Albedus Humblescore
Headmaster of the Horribilorum Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards
A game of Toasts, Poisoning and Flawless Etiquette.
In the great Kingdom of Otravia, no King has ever ruled till the natural end of his life. Some say it is just a coincidence. Some others say it is the stress, so the King drinks it away with Wine…
Raise Your Goblets is a poison-free deductive party game by Horrible Games, developed by Tim Paige and illustrated by Nick Miles.
Players will take the roles of guests at a magnificent Otravian Banquet. During the various Courses, you will have Poison, Antidote and Wine to pour into the Gobletson the table. You will have the chance to taste the bouquet of your Wine to look for Poison, swap the Goblet in front of you with the one of another player, or rotate themto further mix things up. But beware, you’ll have to be ready for the Toast! You will also have a Character card with a special ability that will allow you to bend the rules of the game to your advantage! Your goal is to poison your target while trying to survive your enemy’s plans to kill you!
Raise Your Goblets will officially be launched at the Essen SPIEL fair that will run from 13 to 16 October 2016. Pay us a visit at our booth! The first people to buy a copy of Raise Your Goblets will also receive a set of coasters with the most important Otravian Households (while stocks last)!
But wait… there’s more!
Horrible Games is really proud to announce that, during the Fair, a special edition of the game will also be available, called Raise Your Goblets: Limited Edition. This limited edition features a special box, embellished with shiny details and a different artwork, and an exclusive set of golden Goblets instead of the regular ones contained in the standard edition.
As the name implies, Raise Your Goblet: Limited Edition will be available in really limited quantities, so do not miss the chance to put your hands on it! Those who will buy the Limited Edition will also receive a poison-free wine bottle of King Cobra’s Special Reserve (while stock lasts). A proper mean to the end of cheering and toasting with your friends!
If you want to take a closer look at the game rules and components, make sure to visit the official page on BoardGameGeek.
As always, to stay updated on all things Horrible, check www.horrible-games.com, follow @Horrible_Games on Twitter, or write us an email at info@horrible-games.com. If you really feel adventurous, you can also give us a thumbs-up on facebook at www.facebook.com/HorribleGames.
Be prepared!
Something HORRIBLE is coming, and we hope you’ll like it!
Sincerely,
the Horrible Staff
Like all good things have to, GenCon 2016 is now over… but it’s been great!
Horrible Games is really proud to announce that during the convention, just like last year in Essen, Potion Explosion™ went SOLD OUT!
Our most heartfelt thanks go to our partner, Cool Mini or Not, who brought the game to the US crowd, but first and foremost to all the players who decided to add Potion Explosion to their collection!
We’ve been receiving a few reports about the marbles contained into the Potion Explosion™ boxes. Our beloved Professor Humblescore has an official announcement about the magic marbles included into each copy of the game:
Dear students,
you may notice that sometimes the marbles for your Potions may present slight imperfections, like slightly variable dimensions or small holes, and a slightly different tone of the same color. That is a normal condition of the marbles, since every single ingredient is unique. I can assure that these features don’t affect your potion-brewing experience in any way!
So no worries, students. Keep brewing powerful and incredible Potions!
Sincerely,
Albedus Humblescore,
Headmaster of the Horribilorum Academy for Witty Witches and Wizards
For the second year in a row, we’ll have a booth at the International Toy Fair, in Nuremberg. If you’ll be attending the messe, pay us a visit. We’ll be showing a few of our next projects! The fair will be held from January 27 to February 1, 2016. You will find us in Hall 10.0, booth G-25 (same place as last year)!
But even if you won’t be at the fair, don’t worry. You’ll find some news about all those new games, soon, and right here (or follow us on Facebook)!
Something Horrible is coming, and we hope you’ll like it!
All the Horrible Games staff (and our beloved Professor, Albedus Humblescore) wish you a merry holiday season, and a happy new year!
Hello everyone! Like every year, Horrible Games will be at the Essen SPIEL fair, that will run from 8 to 11 October 2015.
You can find us in Hall 3, booth P-108.
Pay us a visit! We’ll be officially launching Potion Explosion at the fair! The first people to buy a copy will also receive a t-shirt for free (while stocks last) at one condition: if you want it, you have to wear it in front of us! If you want to take a closer look at the game rules and components, make sure to visit the official page on BoardGameGeek. You’ll also find a lot of previews and videos of the Dispenser in action.
We will also have Dungeon Fighter: Rock and Roll! We actually released it a few months ago, but it’s the first time we bring it to Essen, so if you didn’t grab your copy yet, now’s the time! At our booth you’ll also find more gadgets than ever, and some copies of all of the games in our catalog! They need your love… Dungeon Fighter (the base game and all of the four expansions), Steam Park, Co-Mix, they are all searching for a new home and a pair of caring hands.
If all of this is not enough to convince you: we’ll bring a new Dungeon Fighter promo hero as an exclusive for the show, who may or may not actually be a heroine. Also, we heard through the grapevine that it may be a crossover of sorts with a certain “game with balls” people’s talking about a lot, recently. Only time will tell! We will also be showing a prototype of one of the game we are still developing, Alone, and if you ask really nicely, we may have something to say about more expansions we’re are working on… and they are not for Dungeon Fighter.
See you in Essen! Remember, you can find us there from 8 to 11 October 2015 in Hall 3, booth P-108.
Graf Ludo logo
We are really proud to announce that Co-Mix has been nominated, in the family game category, for the prestigious Graf Ludo award for best graphics in board games! Credit obviously goes to Matteo Cremona and Max Rambaldi for their great work… that being said, good luck, to all of us! Our competition is fierce.
