I went to a launch event here in Portland last night for a game called Illimat that was co-created by one of my favourite bands The Decemberists.
Been playing this for a few nights now. It's essentially the old 'cassino' card game but with a few twists. The rules aren't *super* clear to begin with, but an hour on YouTube later and we realised we'd been playing it right. Better with more than two people, but a lot of fun. Certainly showed me how shoddy my basic arithmetic skills are.
Nice! Did you back the Kickstarter? I found the game very confusing to start with, luckily we had a guy on hand to walk us through it and play a few rounds, which is always 1000% better than just reading the rulebook.
It was also a little hard to concentrate as well, given that I also got to briefly meet several members of my favourite band - the last time I can remember feeling that starstruck and awkward was probably meeting John, Carlos, Karl and Alex at the Dredd screening.

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It's such a beautiful game and doesn't really look like anything else I've seen before. I think if you were to play in a pub or bar it would turn a lot of heads.
reports haven't actually been all that positive about it
Huh, I wondered what the word on this was... Was sorely tempted to place an order, but maybe not. Seems like
Dead of Winter might be a more rewarding for a great game with a similar theme to The Thing?
Haven't checked in a while - also been recently playing a lot of
One Night Ultimate Werewolf and the expansion Daybreak, which we've just introduced to a load of new people,
Kingdomino (a light, easy to learn Carcassonne-ish tile game) and
Bears Vs Babies (quite a low-scoring game and not as immediate or accessible as Exploding Kittens, but still really fun).