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Radical 8 Games ltd

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York indie publisher of Die of the Dead, Forks, and the upcoming Spokes.

On our stand you will be able to play and buy Die of the Dead, including the Xolo Expansion and Ofrenda Variant, for a special UKGE only price. We will also have our latest edition of the hit card game Forks for playing and buying. Finally it will be the first time bringing Spokes to the UKGE. This amazing game of velodrome cycling from designer Bert Hardeman is a kaleidoscope of colour bringing to life an amazingly elegant race game. Only three rules, but as deep as it gets, that's Spokes.

Games

Die of the Dead: The Ofrenda Variant

Publisher
Radical 8 Games
Age Range
14+
Player Range
1-5

It’s time to prepare your ofrenda, tonight is the Day of the Dead! Make your altar the most beautiful of all, decorate the borders with papel picado, shower it with marigold flowers and bring only the freshest bread, food and drink, so the souls of the deceased can rest and eat and drink, recovering their strengths in their long trip between the land of the dead and the living. As night falls and the moon rises, light the candles and incense, let your altar become a guiding beacon for the spirits going home.

The Ofrenda Variant takes the Die of the Dead dice, caskets and steps, and transforms them into a dice drafting game in which players attempt to make their altars the most appealing to their ancestors. Instead of putting dice in caskets players are drafting dice from caskets, to reprsent the bread, candles, incense and marigolds which will adorn their altars.

The Ofrenda Variant offers a puzzle based spin on Die of the Dead, for players who love the theme and beauty but prefer something less on the luck side of things. In order to enable more people to play Die of the Dead to celebrate Dia de Muertos this expansion also contains a solo mode, something only possible with the cerebral nature of this variant.

Die of the Dead: The Xolo Expansion

Publisher
Radical 8 Games
Age Range
14+
Player Range
2-5

It's Dia de Muertos, along with dawn the spirits of the dead come out to pay a visit to their loved ones, party and eat and drink once again all their favorite dishes. But these souls are many and excited, they pass through the world in a hurry and sometimes even forget where their homes are, how come they don’t get lost? Luckily the xoloitzcuintles are here! The bonds with man’s best friend are so strong that they surpass life and death, and these loyal dogs are ready to help the dead find their way back home.

The Xolo Expansion introduces the xoloitzcuintle to Die of the Dead. These loyal dogs can be used to guide other players to caskets, encouraging them to pick ones which benefit you, for more dice manipulation options on the future. Featuring more ways to mainpulate dice and each other, tokens, casket boards and custom dice, The Xolo Expansion takes everything people love about Die of the Dead and makes more of it.

Forks 2nd Edition

Publisher
Radical 8 Games
Age Range
14+
Player Range
2-6

It's tourist season, and you have to choose which destinations to invest in, and which to market. Cleverly pass cards to manipulate your neighbours into marketing the ones you've invested in, and avoid marketing theirs.

Forks 2nd Edition has the simple rules and quick gameplay of Forks, but with some significant changes. The most obvious change is the theme and artwork, basing the look and style of art-deco tourism posters. The main gameplay change is to now have simultaneous play as standard, removing the swap rule and only including merge as a variant. This speeds up the game significantly, meaning it now plays well with up to 6 players. To enable this each suit now has an additional 3 cards, in place of the bonus cards from the first edition.

Spokes

Publisher
Radical 8 Games
Age Range
14+
Player Range
2-6

Show off your cycling prowess and routing ability in the game Spokes, from Radical 8 Games. In spokes, players manipulate their wheels and the track to travel around through contiguous colourful lines. The first player to complete three laps is crowned the winner, but watch out, as other players can use your carefully planned routes to jump ahead.

Spokes is a quick and easy to learn game that plays up to 6 in around 30 minutes. The rules are simple- swap a spoke from your bicycle for one on the track, and then travel along that route. But the stragies that emerge are deep, and the satisfaction from travelling a lesser seen route immeasurable.