HoopCAT GamesGame 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.
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Firebreak
Being evaluated by a potential publisher |
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.
Ages: 8 - Adult Players: 2-5 Time: 30 minutes |
Doggerland
Signed by Games by Bicycle, there will be a name & theme change, release date not yet announced. |
![]() 9000 years ago in post-Ice Age Europe, Stone Age tribes of hunter- gatherers wandered the low marshy plains of Doggerland, a land bridge that connected Britain to the rest of the European continent. As warmer global temperatures melted tens of thousands of years of glacial ice, sea levels rose, reducing the land bridge of to a series of islands, before completely submerging Doggerland under the rising North Sea. In this game, you and your competitors lay tiles to raise Doggerland ever higher to keep it above the rising waters. But each of you has different scoring objectives for how you want Doggerland to look.
Ages: 10 - Adult Players: 2-6 Tim: 30-45 minutes |
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. I hope to be able to announce the publisher soon. (This game was originally playtested with a different theme as Lady of the Diamonds.)
Ages: 8 - Adult Players: 2-5 Time: 15-30 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 |
Miner Rings
Seeking a publisher |
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 |