HoopCAT Games
Game Designs by Charlie Hoopes
When my wife and I self-published my first successful game design, we learned a lot while working with the artist, factory, shipper, distributor, and everyone else needed to get a fun game onto a store shelf. However, it led me to decide to focus on what I enjoy most - game design. I now seek publishers to concentrate on everything else a fun game design needs to succeed in a crowded marketplace.
 My self-published game
Fill The Barn was the first game I ever made (that was good enough to publish). It's simple - plant your crops, then harvest to the barn to earn money. Except the barn isn't large enough to hold everyone's crops, so it is a race to get your crops into the barn before your opponents. Fill The Barn is a family game - easy enough for a child to learn, yet still enough there to keep the parents' attention.
Ages: 8 - Adult Players: 2-6 (works best with 3 or more) Time: 30 minutes |
A three-dimensional tile laying game. where you and your competitors lay tiles to raise your city ever higher to keep it above rising flood waters. But each player has different scoring objectives for how you want the board to look.
Ages: 10 - Adult Players: 2-6 Tim: 30-45 minutes (Playtested in 2018-2019 as Doggerland) |
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Firebreak
Seeking a publisher |
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A series of forest fires have broken out in a wilderness park. Can you and your team of rangers contain the flames and protect the nearby cabins and wildlife preserves? This is a cooperative game, so you and your fellow players either all win together or all lose together.
(This game had been under two different contracts 2018-2021, but is once again seeking a publisher.) Ages: 8 - Adult Players: 2-5 Time: 30 minutes |
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Lands of Oz
Signed by Escape Velocity Games, watch them for a Kickstarter campaign sometime in the future. |
The lands of Oz are free from the oppression of the wicked witches. Your job as a representative of one of the lands of Oz (e.g. Winkieland, Quadling Country) is to attract as many of the heroes as you can to rule your corner of Oz. Focus too much on one, and a rival may steal another away from you.
(This game was originally playtested with a different theme as Lady of the Diamonds.) Ages: 8 - Adult Players: 2-5 Time: 15-30 minutes |
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Walled Cities
Seeking a publisher . |
 Walled Cities prototype
Place resources along roads between medieval walled cities to create paths between the city cards in your hand. But beware that opponents don't take the resources you need as they complete their own paths. Opponents may close the gates of a city after a completed path forcing everybody to route around that part of the board.
(This game was originally playtested as Attatat. It had been under contract for several years to be published as Sweet Success, but was never published.) Ages: 8 - Adult Players: 2-5 Time: 20-30 minutes |
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Longest Queue
Seeking a publisher 
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A game all about picking and influencing second place finishes. Your group is at an amusement park. Your goal is for your group members to ride the most popular rides more times than the other groups. But avoid the longest queues, or your group members will waste their time waiting instead of riding. (This game was publicly playtested in 2019 as No More Spam.)
Ages: 8 - Adult Players: 3-6 Time: 30-40 minutes |
Please Feed the Bears
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Your bear (with help from some animal friends) is spending the last days of Autumn preparing a Spring wake up breakfast of sweet wild berries. You win by preparing the largest and most varied assortment of dried berries. A worker placement game where different animals occupy different amounts of space.
Ages: 10-Adult Players: 2-4 Time: 45 Minutes |
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Miner Rings
Seeking a publisher |
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Who can move the most goods the quickest between orbiting space stations? All players share the same dice roll for movement, but must decide when to spend fuel to move the full roll. Players may also move stations in their orbits, so sometimes it works best to fly to the station, other times it is better to move the station to your rocket. The earlier version Planet Movers was the 3rd place finalist in the Cardboard Edison 2016 Prototype of the Year award.
Ages: 10- Adult Players: 2-4 Time: 45-60 minutes |
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