Killing With Kindness

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting — Implied through the description of the gameplay and art flipping.
• Set Collection — Players are seemingly gathering resources (animals) to achieve a goal (feeding monsters).

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• So, forgive us if we're a little tired or low energy. We're try we have coffee with us.
• Gen Con is the largest board game convention and tabletop RPG convention in North America.
• So, you know, we are you know, super experts not not really but we have grown as a channel uh going analog.
• This is a much larger cooperative poker game because you are playing against the devil for with a many innocent souls in balance.
• So they're showing this game killing with kindness when you first look at it.
• The top part is adorable.
• And then but what you're doing is fattening up these creatures to feed them to horrific monsters
• The theme was awesome
• It is like a pocket smallbox version of like a racing game like Hot Streak, right?
• So it adds, you know, that aspect of craziness that we like from Hot Streak.
• Uh, but it was just so you're just trying to like I want to complete fossils for square.
• The game is really simple, but this one little twist of how you draft was really cool
• Gen Con, fantastic time. We said saw so many fun people had so many fun things happen

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• We are Gen Con 2026 is among us and we need to talk about it because we will be attending.
• Gen Con is the biggest board game convention in North America.
• Mind the Lions, which was a nominee last year as Crackle Rackle.
• And it's so clever. It's so much fun.
• Druid City Games, who I work for, is releasing there's an early release of Sky 5, which is a really fun game.
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• So, if you want to come hang out, talk games, we'll be around.
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• It's a cooperative game, it's got ghosts, it's got this really charming artwork.
• I think it's really funny that it's called Familiar Spirits, because the first game we played, we had two people play, it was challenging, we didn't win, but we still had a blast.
• It's not necessarily a beginner game, but it can be made more accessible.
• Age of Sale was also I still have like 2,000 units sitting there and I just I can't sell them.
• The colonization piece and the slavery piece may not be the thing that we want to be continuing.
• around the time when my older son was about 3 years old, we had uh designed a game together which ended up being Food Fighters. That was our first game.

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