Lookout Spiele

This is a game by Michael Lu.

It's published by Lookout Games.

David, you and I tried this at Origins.

It didn't catch our eye there, uh, but we got a, we got a slightly poor teach, and so I decided to give this a shot on BGA, and again, I have the actual version here as well.

There is quite a lot of them, some of which now come packaged in the core game that you can buy these days.

Lookout Games was established in 2000 by Uwe Rosenberg, Hanno Gierch, and Marcel-André Casasola-Merkel, originally to put out expansions to Bonanza, but obviously went on to do other things as well.

I'm sure it is a name that a lot of our listeners recognize.

So, how did you first come across the game, gents? Matt, what about yourself?

yeah exactly anything to add there matt

no not really i mean it is just to echo what uh nate said because i think it's it's worth just dwelling on the fact that it put rosenberg on the map because it didn't just put him on the map um as true as that is it allowed him it was so successful that allowed him to focus you know spend more and more time game designing so without bonanza we wouldn't have had agricola we wouldn't have had patchwork we wouldn't have had any of the other big things that he's he's contributed to the hobby over the years um yeah so that's that

yeah i mean like i said in the intro you did like lookout games was basically established to make bonanza expansions and then obviously went on to do other things yeah Well, we've said a couple of times about how we feel about the game a little bit.

So let's talk a bit about critical impressions.

We had Forest Shuffle, then we had Forest Shuffle Dartmoor, I think it was, yep, and then Forest Shuffle Smoky Mountains.

This was a sponsored video from Lookout Games.

Lookout Games paid me a bit of money to show the game off.

I like Forest Shuffle as a game.

I think the mechanisms of Forest Shuffle are nice and I enjoy playing it.

It's the Cantaloop series, which has-- consists of three distinct parts.

These have been published with Lookout Spiele and have sold over forty thousand copies, so they've been very successful in the board game realm.

I, of course, made this deck of cards, the Songwriting Decks, which isn't really a game, but it's a systematized way of thinking about songwriting that also uses physical components, cards.

And I'm currently working on another game, Nerds versus Gnomes.

The player with the most points wins the game and frolics freely in the forest until the following Friday.

Forest Shuffle was designed by Kosh and was published in 2023 by Lookout Games.

Alright guys, what is it about Forest Shuffle that really bears fruit for you?

So the thing that makes this game really shine for me, I know you said this a little bit in your description, Chris, but it's that mechanic where you're paying to play cards with cards in your hand.

I would love for this game to come out.

Lookout Games should have been like, the Odyssey's coming out.

We got you, you know?

Right? I think it might technically be out of print in the US.

Baron Park is still fantastic.

Anitra is looking right now to make sure it is still available, still in print.

This is another one that I think was Lookout Games, so I don't really know what's going on with them.

It

So I pitched them one of my games, and I really enjoyed meeting them.

Also, I want to do a quick shout-out to... 3ws uh i can't i can't thank them enough for how they did digging for dinos was a big release for them they also had a number of great games with cattywampus and relative space and like their release schedule this year was just full of bangers um and their their booth was hopping and did a great job um Also, I want to say that Lookout Games, I know they're part of Asmodee, whatever not, but as a whole, they did a lot of stuff.

And I love Forest Shuffle, obviously, but just a lot of the stuff they put out was really, really good this year.

Some really interesting stuff.