Tabletop

Adapted from the video game of the same name, Wilmot’s Warehouse is a colorful cooperative memory game where your team works together to organize the warehouse, using memory, imagination, and silly stories you make up. Presented by James Nathan Spencer, COO of CMYK (Wavelength, Monikers, Daybreak).

In Unfriendly Games’ Nekojima, players stack electrical poles to power districts across “The Island of Cats,” navigating the narrow territory while avoiding the mischievous cats strolling on the cables, in a balancing act of concentration and skill. Presented by Hachette Director T. Caires.

Game designer and illustrator Jordan Mishra Johnson spent over 1,000 hours drawing 323 unique illustrations for Drawn Hungry, a culinary card game in which players compete to make the best meal for special occasions using lushly-illustrated dish and ingredient cards from their hand.

Weird City Games’ Tim Eisner previews two upcoming upgrades to his beloved nature-themed strategy games. In Canopy: Evergreen, players grow a bountiful 3D forest set in the Pacific Northwest, while in March of the Ants: Evolved Edition, players grow their ant colony and compete with rival nests.

The latest conversational card game from Pink Tiger Games, Hurt Party is a party game that pokes fun at all of the terrible ways we say we're sorry, in which players try to make up for ridiculous hurts by delivering terrible apologies from their hand. Presented by creator Ami Baio.

A card game for lousy artists, great artists, and everyone in between. In Shape Shape, players try to draw a secret drawing prompt for their partner using only shapes from their shape cards. Designer Jason Furie shares the latest prototype of the game, coming to BackerKit next year.

Violet Daisy Games’ upcoming Epilogue is a word-building storytelling game where you play as ghosts trying to figure out how you died so you can pass on to the other side, using word fragment cards to cooperatively build words to move the story along. Presented by designer Emma Larkins.

Like past years, we asked festival friend and GeekDad senior editor Jonathan H. Liu to share his favorite games from his extensive tabletop library. They're available any time for you to check out from inside the tent to play, just bring them back when you’re done!