GAME PREVIEWS

The protospiel area at RageCon was packed all weekend with designers eager to playtest their new games.

GARAGE BAND One of the most arresting prototypes was the absolutely glorious Garage Band by first time designer, Nate Heater. Heater is a musician who, disappointed at the lack of music games out there, thought he would turn his hand to design and Garage Band was the result. Garage Band is a worker placement game of warring local bands all trying to earn an elusive record deal. The componentry (all made by Nate) is simply remarkable, with mini cassettes, mixer sliders to track your stats and your enormous treehouse/rehearsal space/dice tower dominating the centre of the board. Nate contacted Reno designer Jonny Pac on the off-chance he would have a look at his prototype. Jonny was so impressed that he put Nate in touch with Reno publisher CardLords, who promptly…

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