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Gen Con 2023: Deep Water Games is now Friendly Skeleton and announces Trash Talk

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Deep Water Games, known for titles like MonsDRAWsity, Fantastic Factories, and 7 Summits, has announce its rebranding as Friendly Skeleton. This strategic move reflects the company’s commitment to bring a fresh, inviting, and fun approach to gaming experiences for players of all ages. Alongside the rebranding, Friendly Skeleton is excited to unveil its latest game, Trash Talk.

Trash Talk is a captivating party game that challenges players to communicate across species using trash as their medium. In this innovative and hilarious game, raccoons and possums come together to have a blast. Players must use prized treasures pulled from dumpsters, gutters, and maybe even a few “borrowed” from humans to master the art of cross-species communication and ensure everyone wins!

Trash Talk

Deep Water Games is teaming up with Source Point Press for a limited edition mystery box!

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Deep Water Games and Source Point Press are having a company wide Spring Cleaning event! Order an Ox Eye Media Mystery Box and you’re guaranteed:

  • 1 big box Deep Water Games board game
  • 1 small box Deep Water Games board game
  • 1 full 3-5 issue Source Point Press comic series
  • 1 Source Point Press collected trade

1 in 5 Mystery Boxes contain a limited edition metal variant cover of a Source Point Press title. 

A guaranteed $50 or more value for only $45! For a limited time only!

Deep Water Games Reveals Floor Plan: Winchester Mystery House

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From Deep Water Games and The Winchester Mystery House LLC comes Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House, based on the most extraordinary and bizarre house ever built. It is a sequel to Deep Water’s 2020 release Floor Plan, which was nominated for the Board Game Geek Award and is now on its 4th printing. Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House will be available in retail stores across the U.S. in Spring 2022.

In Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House, players take on the role of an architect designing the house for Sarah Winchester. Each round, a pair of dice are rolled, and players act simultaneously, using the dice to design the most mysterious and eccentric estate in the world. The design goals featured in the game are all real architectural and design features of the Winchester Mystery House, ranging from room designs to decor. One game might have you building the iconic Seance room, while another might spotlight the Daisy Bedroom where Sarah Winchester was allegedly trapped during the 1906 earthquake. Each game features a different six of the thirty goals, so when you play again, you’ll have a whole new experience. After all, Sarah is always building…

Winchester Mystery House is a landmark mansion in San Jose, CA, once the personal residence of Sarah Lockwood Pardee Winchester, the widow of William Wirt Winchester and heiress to a large portion of the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune. After losing her husband and child, Sarah left their home in New Haven, CT and moved out west to San Jose, where she bought an eight-room farmhouse and began what could only be described as the world’s longest home renovation. Construction continued around the clock for 38 years, as the original home grew into the world’s most unusual and sprawling mansion in what some say was an effort to confuse any spirits bent on seeking revenge for their death by rifle.

Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House is designed by John Brieger of Brieger Creative. Brieger is a board game developer based in Sunnyvale, CA with a background in qualitative research. After leaving Apple, he founded the board game development studio Brieger Creative. Brieger Creative are the developers on the original Floor Plan game, which was designed by Marek Tupy, as well as on several other roll and write style games, including Cartographers and Long Shot the Dice Game.

Floor Plan: The Winchester Mystery House is the second collaboration between The Winchester Mystery House LLC and Ox Eye Media after The Winchester Mystery House comic series releasing in October. Published by Source Point Press, the comic series is a masterfully crafted horror tale written by Joshua Werner and illustrated by Dustin Irvin, taking readers into the non-stop construction of “The house that spirits built.”

Game imagery as shown are working prototypes, subject to Licensor approval

Rat Queens: the Board Game is Coming to Kickstarter from Deep Water Games this Summer

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Rat Queens: The Board Game

Deep Water Games is adapting the New York Times Best-Selling comic series Rat Queens into an official board game, coming to Kickstarter this Summer.

You know the Rat Queens. A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, in the business of massacring monsters for money. When the darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery comic debuted in 2013, it put a “Bridesmaids” spin on “Dungeons and Dragons” and campaigned its way into the hearts of many. Now, it’s your turn to join the Queens on their ale-swigging misadventures in Rat Queens: The Board Game.

Rat Queens: The Board Game is a cooperative deck-building boss-fighter based on the award-winning Image Comics series Rat Queens, created by Kurtis Wiebe. It plays 1 to 4 players in under an hour with learn-as-you-go mechanics and loads of content for endless replayability.

Just like the comics, players will have to manage the relationships between the queens and suffer the consequences of their chaotic actions. Unique asymmetric powers immerse players in the role of each of the four Queens:

  • Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, a black-haired necromancer with a bad attitude and a mysterious past.
  • Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, a red-haired Dwarf of the Blackforge Clan who rejects her family’s old-fashioned traditions.
  • Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, a human ex-high priestess who left her faith and family after she became disillusioned with the horrors they worshipped.
  • Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief, a lover and a fighter who is as dangerous as she is small.

Rat Queens: the Board Game is designed by Erica Hayes-Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim. Bouyouris is a game designer from Toronto, Canada, whose previous works include the Steven Universe Miniatures Game, Bosk, and Kodama 3-D. She’s part of the Game Artisans of Canada and co-hosts the Meeple Syrup show with Lim.

Lim is one half of the Bamboozle Brothers; the designers of award-winning games such as Belfort and Junk Art. Sen’s previous games also include Kingdom Rush, Legend of Korra, Godfather, and Mind MGMT.

Look for Rat Queens: the Board Game on Kickstarter, Summer 2021.

Gamble on the gladiatorial games in Gladius from Deep Water and Cat Quartet Games

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Gladius

Deep Water Games has announced that they will be co-publishing the award-winning board game Gladius, created by Cat Quartet Games.

With more than 3,000 backers on Kickstarter, Gladius supports two to five players who will play as cunning Roman spectators trying to make the most money by betting on and rigging the gladiatorial games. Through the skillful use of underhanded tactics, players can help and hinder teams to alter the outcome of each battle.

Gladius has already gathered critical acclaim, including a Seal of Approval from the Dice Tower’s Tom Vasel, the PAX South Tabletop Indie Showcase, Luci People’s Choice Award 2018, Bit Awards Tabletop Game of the Year, and comes highly recommended from Kickstart Gaming Magazine.

Gladius is designed by Victoria Caña and Alex Uboldi of Cat Quartet Games and features art by Cheryl Young.

Gladius is available for pre-order now on oxeyemedia.com. Will you walk away with toga pockets brimming full of gold, or will you be left without a single denarius to your name?

Gen Con 2019: Deep Water Games Announces 7 Summits

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7 Summits

Deep Water Games has announced 7 Summits a new dice game coming in 2020. From the minds of Daryl Andrews and Adrian Adamescu and illustrated by Kwanchai Moriya the game is for 2 to 5 payers ages 8+ and plays in 30-35 minutes.

Grab your gear! In 7 Summits, you are a world class mountain climber. Use the dice to your advantage to climb the seven tallest mountain peaks in the world, upgrade your equipment, and advance your skills. Will you be the first to climb them all?

7 Summits

The object of 7 Summits is to be the first to climb (summit) all seven of the tallest peaks in the world. Players are racing against time, each other, and the elements until one player completes a summit of each mountain peak, three mountain peaks are empty of point tokens, or the event deck is depleted.

You can check the game out at Gen Con by stopping by booth #471.

7 Summits
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